Darlington Football Club supporters can be forgiven for thinking "Here we go again" when they see tomorrow's front page of The Northern Echo.

The paper reveals how the Quakers' future is back in jeopardy due to a financial wrangle resulting in the holding company which owns the stadium and surrounding land being placed in receivership and chairman Raj Singh threatening to walk away.

The full details are explained in tomorrow's paper but suffice to say for now that the club is - yet again - in a perilous position.

I met Mr Singh on Monday night and it is clear he's coming to the end of his tether.

If he loses control of the stadium and land, as seems likely, what's the point in him pouring £1m-a-year into keeping the football club going?

I have to say, in my experience of past Quakers' chairman, he appears to have done everything possible to put the club on a more stable financial footing.

The team is on the up, Wembley beckons, and Mark Cooper is doing a solid job as manager. But what does the future hold if Mr Singh walks away?

The bottom line is that Darlington Football Club will never be viable with a soul-less 25,000-seater stadium dragging it down. It simply can't work.

At some stage, one way or another, the Neasham Road site will have to be developed with some creative thinking around planning rules and regulations.

Otherwise, the site risks becoming a neglected and embarrassing white elephant, sitting on an important cross-town route.

If Darlington FC is to have a future - and it's a big "if" given the poor level of support it receives - it has to be in a smaller, more economic stadium capable of generating some atmosphere.

I write all of this with sadness because Darlington Football Club is part of the town's identity. But it cannot go on the way it is.