Posh Sold to Klingon Led Consortium

The £25m sale of Peterborough United Football Club to a consortium led by The Klingon Empire has been approved by football authorities, ending Darragh MacAnthony's ownership of the club.

The move was mired in controversy with the United Federation Of Planets' Sports and Culture Division accusing the oppressive intergalactic regime of sportswashing. 

In a translated statement, relayed to Sky Sports News over a crackly viewscreen, spokesperson L'Kor of the Klingon High Council pledged death and famine for all clubs in Sky Bet League 1 and vowed that should Darren Ferguson's men fail in their bid to reach the Premier League, their teeth would be on the throats of any rival players who did achieve promotion.

One Peterborough fan on social media  commented "Qapla the posh!". 

Another, in response to a tweet from a Milton Keynes Dons fan mentioning the atrocity dubbed "the year of horror", in which Klingons massacred millions in the Orion Sector said "cry more, it'll be a year of horror when you're getting pumped by Wrexham in league 2."

 "Chuba Akpom is destined to sign for posh and his goals will shame your ancestors" added a third. 

Posh director of football of Barry Fry told BBC Look East he was "chuffed to bits with the deal".

"I thought I'd seen everything in this game but even I admit I didn't see this one coming. I'd been doing a bit of scouting at Yaxley FC on a Tuesday night when a Klingon Bird of Prey Decloaked above the car park they share with Andy Self Storage. I'd like to say the Klingons invited me on board but it wasn't exactly an invitation. Next thing I know I'm dematerialising on their bridge and to be honest I nearly "dematerialised" a second time when they started waving their Bat'leths around after I'd warned them about the fit and proper owners test. I needed a couple of glasses of their blood wine to settle me down!"

The news follows rumours of Ferengi interest in Northampton Town Football Club  ('s land behind the East Stand) and an intercepted message picked up by a reporter from The Athletic that the Borg wish to assimilate Swindon Town.