THIS unsolicited letter was sent to the Bucks Free Press this week, and is reproduced in full below:

‘I’VE supported Wycombe Wanderers for 46 years, at Loakes Park, the Conference years, the Martin O’Neill era, the FA Cup run and the Carling Cup run.

‘I’ve watched it all with pride. The defeat against Huddersfield and where we are at the moment is a glimpse into the future of this club.

‘I don’t blame the players, I don’t blame the manager and I don’t blame Steve Hayes. Steve Hayes is a business man and a Wycombe supporter, and whatever your opinion of the man he wants to be successful – he wants to make money and he wants Wycombe to be a big club and there’s nothing wrong with that.

‘He doesn’t have a bottomless pit of money and if you don’t give him a chance to make money he can’t keep pumping cash into the club.

‘So when he wanted to take Wycombe to Booker to be part of a sports complex of course he wanted to make money, of course he wanted to be successful but he wanted Wycombe and Wasps to be successful too, hand in hand with the business.

‘So congratulations to a number of Wycombe supporters and the Wycombe District Council for stopping this from happening. You have destroyed the future and the ambition of our club and unless a multimillionaire benefactor comes in and buys the club, we are in freefall.

‘So what you saw against Huddersfield willl happen again. We will lose our best players to bigger teams and we won’t attract any promising players.

‘I predict that we will be a conference side within five years and will never reach the dizzy heights of division one football again in my lifetime.

‘So when I’m watching the Wanderers play Alfreton, Ebsfleet and Braintree instead of West Ham United, Leeds United and Birmingham City, I will look back and think what could have been.

‘So once again, thank you to everyone who stopped Steve Hayes giving us a chance of Championship football and a bright future for Wycombe Wanderers football club. You’ve done a great job.’ Eric Buckle (lifetime supporter), Stokenchurch