Squashsite
Squashsite (referring to squashsite.co.uk) is a sport websites that provides latest and accurate squash news, squash results, squash articles, and squash tournament coverage. Squashsite is owned And Co-founded by Steve Cubbins & Framboise Gommendy. Individual users can use an RSS reader to be automatically notified of updates on this site and other newsfeeds, and other websites can also 'subscribe' to the newsfeed to provide their users with the latest squash headlines. Squashsite is also available in French.
Financial Troubles
Both the co-founders have travelled the globe; covered the tournaments; bled players dry for quotes; uploaded the photos, and GeneRally over-worked themselves from their love of the sport.
In 5 years time, they managed to produce an annual income of ÂĢ20,000 through sponsors and official tournament website fees. They had received no subsistence from the three main bodies: the World Squash Federation (WSF), the Professional Squash Association (PSA) and the Women's International Squash Players Association (WISPA).
A meeting was set up in Manchester with the Cardiff-based PSA, the men's tour body, to discuss a potential partnership and the future was looking rosy for the site. However, a last-minute u-turn from the governing body left it with no alternative but to down keyboards.
The Squashsite forum was overrun with disgust at the apparent lack of support from the governing bodies while the inevitable "Bring Back Squashsite" was set up on Facebook.
Step in, Mick Dodd, James Willstrop's manager, had given the duo a lifeline by suggesting that they should carry on serving the squash community and leave the business side up to him.
See also
- World Open Squash