{"id":291361,"date":"2023-09-20T06:34:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=291361"},"modified":"2023-09-20T06:34:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:34:06","slug":"englands-world-cup-visit-leaves-aussie-battler-in-25000-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/englands-world-cup-visit-leaves-aussie-battler-in-25000-black-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"England&apos;s World Cup visit leaves Aussie battler in $25,000 black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>EXCLUSIVE: How Daily Mail Australia got justice for furious Aussie battler after the Lionesses&#8217; World Cup visit left him with a $25,000 financial nightmare<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lionesses were based on the Central Coast in New South Wales\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The FA enlisted services of local AV company for media production\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>Business hit hard by shortfall due to long delay in FA paying bill<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>England&#8217;s Football Association has been accused of putting an Australian small business in financial distress by racking up a $25,000 bill that remained unpaid for weeks after the Lionesses left the country after the FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Dale Bax contacted Daily Mail Australia for help after repeatedly trying and failing to get paid for the services he provided for the national team during the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The situation became so dire he threatened legal action &#8211; but once we got involved, the FA finally organised payment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>England reached the final of the showpiece event in Sydney, going down 1-0 to eventual champions Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The team were based at\u00a0Terrigal on the Central Coast of\u00a0New South Wales for their World Cup campaign, where the FA enlisted the services of Gosford business\u00a0Bax Audio Visual.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/01\/75585147-12534135-Dale_Bax_is_the_owner_of_Gosford_business_Bax_Audio_Visual_who_h-a-3_1695170944742.jpg\" height=\"361\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dale Bax (pictured), owner of Gosford business\u00a0Bax Audio Visual, was left out of pocket to the tune of $25,000 because of invoices left unpaid by England&#8217;s Football Association<\/p>\n<p>Bax said his company provided equipment and staff members to create media content for the tournament, but was repeatedly put off when he tried to get paid for his services.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Back in June they approached us for some equipment for the media, to broadcast all the media coverage back home to the UK,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Staging, media splitters, microphones, technicians, all that type of thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We offered them an invoice back in July and the client&#8217;s representative [FA media operations specialist] Jo [Plummer] said it would be fixed up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We kept hassling her for the payment while the show was on, while the job was on, saying we need to get paid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She said it was a tricky thing, it will be paid soon, it takes a bit of time because they&#8217;re a big company.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/01\/75583667-12534135-The_Lionesses_were_based_in_Terrigal_on_the_Central_Coast_of_New-a-4_1695170944807.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Lionesses were based in Terrigal on the Central Coast of New South Wales during their FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup campaign when they enlisted Bax&#8217;s services<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/01\/75583647-12534135-The_FA_hired_a_local_AV_company_for_media_equipment_and_technici-a-1_1695170944548.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The FA hired a local AV company for media equipment and technicians during the World Cup (England star Ella Toone, pictured)<\/p>\n<p>The FA paid $5,000 of the bill, leaving around $25,000 outstanding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I sent her an email saying I am very nervous about not getting paid, especially considering what happened at the [Sydney 2000] Olympics with other AV companies not getting paid by overseas companies,&#8217; Mr Bax said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She fixed up one of her invoices, a small one, with a credit card. She said, &#8220;Look, it&#8217;s fine and to make you feel more comfortable I will pay for this one&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When they got in the final I sent her an email saying &#8220;you really need to fix it up today before you go, because you&#8217;re leaving the country in the next few days and you haven&#8217;t paid the bill&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;She said &#8220;we&#8217;re going, here&#8217;s a purchase order number&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I thought, you should have given us this purchase order number a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That was pretty much the end of it. She left, put me in touch with her accounts department.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/01\/75583669-12534135-The_Lionesses_lost_the_Women_s_World_Cup_final_1_0_to_Spain-a-5_1695170946459.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Bax was still chasing payment long after the Lionesses lost the Women&#8217;s World Cup final 1-0 to Spain on August 20 (pictured)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bax has personally contacted the FA about payment on at least six occasions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of his staff members who is handling the account has made additional demands for payment.<\/p>\n<p>The last email he received from The Football Association&#8217;s accounts payable team was on September 5 and has been sighted by Daily Mail Australia along with the invoices sent by Mr Bax.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We must make our international payments separately and therefore this is being signed by 3 Finance signatories before we can make payment,&#8217; was the last correspondence Mr Bax received before Daily Mail Australia became involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;ve sent them several emails and they have promised to pay a couple of times but I have still heard nothing,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I just said to them last week &#8220;look if you don&#8217;t pay this week I&#8217;m going to have to seek some legal advice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/01\/75583637-12534135-Bax_Audio_Visual_has_contacted_The_Football_Association_multiple-a-2_1695170944653.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Bax Audio Visual contacted The Football Association multiple times trying to get the outstanding payment (England star Georgia Stanway is pictured during the World Cup)<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime Bax has had to take the financial hit, which had a dire effect on his business.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It can be 50 per cent of your monthly turnover, I&#8217;ve had to pay all my staff and everything for it,&#8217; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>However, when Daily Mail Australia brought the matter up with the FA on Tuesday, their actions stood in stark contrast to the delays Bax faced.<\/p>\n<p>An association representative told us a &#8216;system error&#8217; was responsible for the delay, and said the business would be paid within hours.<\/p>\n<p>Bax received a remittance advice document from the FA on Wednesday morning providing proof of payment, with the FA Group&#8217;s senior financial operations manager apologising for the delay and inconvenience caused.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12534135\/Lionesses-Womens-World-Cup-Australia-unpaid-bill-Football-Association-25-000.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: How Daily Mail Australia got justice for furious Aussie battler after the Lionesses&#8217; World Cup visit left him with a $25,000 financial nightmare Lionesses were based on the Central Coast in New South Wales\u00a0 The FA enlisted services of local AV&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>England&amp;apos;s World Cup visit leaves Aussie battler in $25,000 black hole - Sports-Life-News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/englands-world-cup-visit-leaves-aussie-battler-in-25000-black-hole\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"England&amp;apos;s World Cup visit leaves Aussie battler in $25,000 black hole - Sports-Life-News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EXCLUSIVE: How Daily Mail Australia got justice for furious Aussie battler after the Lionesses&#8217; 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