Kenilworth Road. He then created a phone-vote to appoint the club's new manager, charging 50p per call to a premium landline, saying that he didn't like "being seen to give way to the mob so we’ve come up with the idea of Manager Idol based on Pop Idol"; he gave a list of eight candidates for fans to vote on: Fenwick, Kinnear, Nigel Clough, Steve Cotterill, Mike Newell, Stuart Pearce, Gardner Speirs and Guðjón Þórðarson. An initial vote eliminated five candidates and left just Kinnear, Newell and Cotterill. On 23 June, he announced the winner of "Manager Idol" to be Mike Newell, though it was reported that Kinnear had received 82% of the votes but refused to rejoin the club due to Gurney's involvement and Cotterill had also publicly ruled himself out. Gurney admitted "there’s all sorts of chaos [because] we failed to agree terms with Joe Kinnear, Steve Cotterill is not here and Mike is. And we said whoever was available and we agreed terms with by 1pm today would be the new manager, so Mike is the new manager". The Luton Town Supporters' Trust was set up in order to wrestle control of the club from Gurney; Trust chairman Liam Day stated that "if [the situation] wasn't so serious, it would have been hilarious." The Trust convinced supporters and local sponsors to boycott season tickets and club sponsorship and instead pledge almost £300,000 towards the Trust. The club players and staff went unpaid throughout Gurney's tenure. The Football League placed the club under a transfer embargo and withheld television and league sponsorship money due to the ongoing uncertainty over the details of the club's ownership structure, citing "grave concern" with the set up after a meeting with Gurney where he refused point blank to provide any information. The Trust then acquired shares in the club's major creditor, Hatters Holdings, an offshore company that was owed several million pounds by the club. Now in control of Hatters Holdings, the Trust then placed the club into administrative receivership (a technically different process to administration) on 14 July 2003 to force out John Gurney after just 55 days in charge despite him warning them that: "If they expect me to walk away from Luton with nothing, I’ll make very sure there’s nothing to walk away from". A documentary on BBC Two called Trouble at the Top detailed his tenure, which was