Fit and Proper persons as Directors of Football Clubs

[Inkerman]

The Football League have implemented new "ground breaking rules" to ensure that only "fit and proper persons" can control football clubs.

None of these rules would have stopped Archer !!!!!

The new rules will make it a breach of Football League regulations for the following to be a director or hold a majority interest in a Football League club:
* Anyone subject to a ban from a Sports Governing Body relating to the administration of that sport.
* Anyone with an unspent conviction relating to fraud or dishonesty.
* Anyone that is disqualified from acting as a director of a UK
registered company.
* Anyone currently subject to a Bankruptcy Order.
* Anyone who has been a Director of a club that has been in
administration twice during a five-year period or a Director of two
different clubs that have each gone into administration in a five-year period.

All current League club directors will provide The League with a
declaration by July 31st indicating that they meet the above criteria and as such are a fit and proper person to hold office at a League club. All new Directors will have to sign a similar declaration on appointment.

 

[Lush]

So - who is going to get chucked out in July then?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

* Anyone who has been a Director of a club that has been in
administration twice during a five-year period or a Director of two
different clubs that have each gone into administration in a five-year period.

I don't know enough about company management. Isn't going into administration the first step towards assembling a resue package? Will this rule have the effect of discouraging appropriate action to save an ailing club? Will its effect be that more clubs simply go bust - especially if egotistical directors start to be motivated primarily by a wish to avoid getting on to the FL's blacklist?

 

[London Calling]

Re: Re: Fit and Proper persons as Directors of Football Clubs

I don't know enough about company management. Isn't going into administration the first step towards assembling a resue package? Will this rule have the effect of discouraging appropriate action to save an ailing club? Will its effect be that more clubs simply go bust - especially if egotistical directors start to be motivated primarily by a wish to avoid getting on to the FL's blacklist?

i assuming it to stop the Leicester type of administration, used to shed your expensive players.