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Louis from One Direction won't be buying that football club after all

  • July 18, 2014
  • Brad O'Mance

louis-tomlinson1dBackseat smoking doc­u­menter Louis Tomlinson has had his takeover bid for Doncaster Rovers football club rejected.

The idea was that Tomlinson would become a co-owner of the club with former chairman John Ryan. But according to Digital Spy the pair's bid was rejected because they didn't pass the Football League's "fit and proper person's test", which is quite the criticism when you think about it.

Naturally the One Direction frontman 'took to Twitter' to express how "gutted" he was about the whole thing.

I'm abso­lutely gutted the Doncaster Rovers deal is not going ahead. I am desperate for the club to be given the recog­ni­tion it deserves :(

— Louis Tomlinson (@Louis_Tomlinson) July 17, 2014

He also insinu­ated that the crowd­fund­ing campaign he'd set up to try and raise the £2m needed might have also been a bit of an issue.

I was expli­citly told that the deal to buy the club was not dependent on the money raised by Crowdfunding . Unfortunately I was misled.

— Louis Tomlinson (@Louis_Tomlinson) July 17, 2014

It's a shame really that rather than trying to get One Direction fans to buy the club he didn't just put up all the cash from his own huge personal fortune. Oh well!

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