MARGATE’S troubled times continued with the resignation of majority shareholder Keith Piper, director Colin Page and supporters’ representative Alan Bonner

Mr Page, speaking on KMFM said "The mood at the club has become very bad in the last six months, and the atmosphere, especially in the boardroom is terrible, and that is why I decided to resign.

"The last two months have been the worst in all the time I’ve been involved with the club. The way I’ve been treated really hurts. "

"I’ve been here 20 years as a committee member and a director and there have been good and bad times. We’ve been to the top of the Conference, if only for one night, and that’s where we deserve to be.

"If the club doesn’t buck their ideas up in the next couple of weeks, they won’t be able to sign any decent players; they’ll be stuck with those left over from other clubs. That’s bad for Margate because the club should be up there in the Conference.

"I hope the club does go forward and I hope the chairman does pull it all together. But the way things are going at the moment, we’d be lucky to even get a team out next season.

Margate advertised for a new manager in Sunday’s Non-League Paper, as the process of finding a replacement for Robin Trott seems to have gone back to square one. It said interviews would take place in the next 10 days