The club still owes about �900,000 to creditors

Paul Davis, chairman of the fans' group TrustSTFC, said the club was in "crisis".

Swindon is in talks with a Portuguese consortium about a takeover and has opened talks with another group.

A club spokesman said: "The club is extremely hopeful that a deal with either the Portuguese or another third party will go through any day now."

'New reality'

"Best Holdings [the Portuguese consortium] continue to assert that they are interested in completing the deal and the club would be delighted if they did so," he added.

"However, the club has considered it prudent to commence discussions with other interested parties."

Mr Davis said: "We were told in August that the consortium had taken over.

"People had reservations but accepted it as the new reality.

"Then we were told it was not quite done and now it appears to have fallen apart.

"The board and the [Portuguese representative] say it has not. I am happy to be proved wrong."

At the open forum, held on Monday, fans voted to protest at the weekend's game.

Last week, some 150 fans protested at the club's home game against Cheltenham Town.