Winding up of Chester City affects York City

City were liquidated over debts owed to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs in a brief hearing this morning.

But David Evans of Chester City Fans United said: "125 years of history have been extinguished today but that's just the body of the club - its soul lives on."

A new club, along the lines of AFC Wimbledon, is the group's goal and Evans continued: "Today is the day to say to everybody that our club will be run in a professional way and be a credit to our city and to football.

"Our model is AFC Wimbledon or AFC Telford, where a new club has been run on a very prudent basis.

"We want to atone for the way the club has been run - we see this as our responsibility even though it wasn't our fault."

All their results in the Blue Square Conference are expunged, meaning promotion-chasing York City lose the four points they earned against Chester this season and dropout of the top five as a result.