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ent non league examples discontinuity and the need for resurrection nobody wants another club to face the need for resurrection but at present the checks in place make it likely that some club will have to go through that drastic process in the future if club registration is to be effective it is vital that the body which oversees it has teeth an unreformed fa would not be my choice in the current climate though the dream of a reformed fa is perhaps not totally unrealistic update 29 march 2011 interesting piece by matt scott of the guardian here all four strands he suggests will be incorporated into a football governance and major events act are long overdue but why just football share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in fit and proper person tests football association governance tagged fit and proper person tests football association governance 10 comments the fickle fate of football managers posted by john beech on march 14 2011 this morning s announcement that aidy boothroyd has been sacked as manager of coventry city 1 brings a local dimension for me on that increasingly common fate for a manager who does not bring success to their club there is a second very recent local case that of ian sampson at northampton town 2 which i will turn to below in boothroyd s case his team had produced only one win in the last sixteen games so it is pretty clear that some action by the board was justified in a general sense though and i emphasise that i not focusing on recent form and events at coventry there are the unaddressed and i suspect internally unasked by a board of directors questions a have we given this manager a chance to show his mettle beyond the short term situation he inherited b have we given him the support he might reasonably expect and c are there any issues to do with his recruitment and appointment that we the board have been in any way at fault with i doubt that in general the answers to these three questions are an unequivocal yes yes and no at coventry there have been recent board changes 3 so there may be at least an element of new brushes and sweeping clean nevertheless as recently as five weeks ago chairman ray ranson 4 someone not exactly unversed in the vaguaries of the football sector who has been chairman of coventry city for just over three years and who must accept the responsibility for boothroyd s appointment in may last year said there are no issues whatsoever with aidy we re still very supportive of the manager 5 not of course that such statements of confidence in a manager are infrequently an omen of a sacking at northampton town at the beginning of this month ian sampson was sacked as manager 6 having failed to produce a win in the previous seven games in this case the three questions i have posed certainly need to be asked sampson had been an employee of the club since 1994 he had played 449 games for the club then been promoted from youth team coach to first team coach then caretaker manager and finally manager in october 2009 he was given a fresh three year contract in march 2010 seven failures to produce a win sets sampson s recent form in an unfairly poor light six of the results had been draws chairman david cardoza defended the sacking of an employee with seventeen years service thus the club must always come first but that doesn t make this decision any easier i my fellow directors the staff and supporters all wanted ian to succeed i really hoped ian would prove a successful manager here but i did not see enough signs that we were improving as a side ian had put together a decent squad and in a way that made our league position all the more unacceptable and we are at a crucial time of year i wanted to make this change now to give us time to go through a detailed recruitment process and to give the new man time to assess the squad before the end of the season to look at the budget for next season and have a full summer to recruit and make the changes they see fit no one is ruled in and no one is ruled out as we begin our search for our next manager i think this will be an attractive job ironic that you should think that david ian sampson himself had said just before christmas i m a fairly loyal person i was happy with my work and the environment created by northampton when you re happy you don t look to go anywhere else not of course unless you re sacked that is if sampson were guilty of incompetence á la peter principle would the decent thing not have been to have moved him sideways rather than that ultimate and brutal decision to sack him wouldn t it be rather fine if just once a director put his hand up and said i accept full responsibility for the appointment of this manager did the decent thing and resigned himself update 28 march 2011 a rather more reasonable approach is shown at scarborough athletic a share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in human resource management organisational culture players careers tagged human resource management organisational culture players careers 4 comments open season on interns posted by john beech on march 10 2011 yes it s the gunfight at the cobham coral saga for those of you not up to date with the jargon of higher education an intern is someone who in old speak was on an industrial placement from a sandwich course typically this would be the third year of a four year undergraduate degree programme the thinking is that such a placement or internship gives a broader education and enhances the student s employment prospects once he or she has graduated reports that no charges are likely to be brought and that the police investigation was so thorough that it is reported they didn t even include speaking to either ashley cole or the shot intern tom cowan 1 simply beggar belief chelsea are really sorting this one out though cole might be fined up to two weeks pay 2 and ancelotti s reaction is reported as i am angry obviously but to read that the training ground at cobham is out of control is totally wrong i ve been a manager for 20 years and one of the most important things is discipline players have to observe the rules ashley made a mistake when he said sorry he was really disappointed with himself but what do we have to do now kill him 3 ancelotti angry cole disappointed with himself for god s sake get real guys someone was shot in the workplace imagine for one moment that the situation had been reversed that cowan had brought the air rifle to work and accidentally shot cole would everyone have been quite so laid back about it i would suggest they wouldn t the incident or more specifically its aftermath bring shame on the club the silence so far at least so far as i ve been able to trace of the premier league and the football association speak volumes about the power of the club and the indifference of the governing bodies to such an incident what would it take to get them to condemn chelsea the death of an intern i find it staggering that the club hasn t even bothered to make public more detail of what precisely happened or what their internal investigation has shown after all this incident took place two and a half weeks ago in the ancelotti world of chronic understatement i m disappointed with chelsea update 12 march 2011 the police have said that they will not be taking any action a there are two impediments the incident took place on private property in which case the law is an ass this is in my opinion utterly absurd the incident happened in a place of employment and employees should be legally protected and tom cowan has declined to file a criminal complaint make of the latter what you will the same report suggests that the club can fine cole up to 250 000 two weeks salary have they the silence from the club remains deafening update 29 march 2011 latest jolly jape involves a dart and a youth player see here what sort of injury is it going to take before clubs take this kind of behaviour seriously share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading posted in ethics football association governance health safety human resource management organisational culture premier league public relations tagged ethics football association governance health safety human resource management organisational culture premier league public relations leave a comment onward and upward at portsmouth posted by john beech on march 5 2011 as plymouth argyle fans come to terms with their club being in administration they can look along the south coast to portsmouth to see that things can get better on thursday uhy hacker young pompey s administrators announced the completion of the club s company voluntary arrangement and exit from administration on 24 february 2011 on 10 february 2011 an order was made by the court confirming that on completion of the administration the case would move to compulsory liquidation subsequently the secretary of state was appointed on 25 february 2011 with geoffrey carton kelly and david hudson of baker tilly being appointed as joint liquidators on 28 february 2011 1 portsmouth city football club ltd is dead long live portsmouth football club 2010 ltd i hope not too many fans will feel a need to try and sort out tattoos in fact i wonder how many people even realised that the old company included the word city in its name the administrator s final progress report is downloadable here as is the completion of the arrangement report a welcome example of transparency the final progress report makes for interesting reading and below i ve set out some of the points it makes in the order they occur in the report with some thoughts of my own in italics although kevin prince boateng was sold to genoa last august for 5 750 000 an installment payment plan was agreed the first two of the four payments have been made but the third due on 15 january 2011 for 1 325 000 has yet to be paid in full in fact only 175 000 has so far been received the fourth installment for the same amount is due on 15 july 2011 will go to the new company payments have been problematic from the beginning 2 portsmouth of course don t exactly have the moral highground when it comes to payments but these are sums which the new company will be very much reliant on the sale of tommy smith to qpr will result in an extra 400 000 being paid if qpr are promoted to the premier league which looks increasingly likely so good news for portsmouth six players mahoto nlundulu subotic jordan hughes papa bouba diop and hurst agreed to cancel their contracts and thus reduce the club s wages bill there is a lot of criticism of players for being greedy clearly this is not always the case breakfast and lunch was also provided for the first team and the academy at the training ground the total cost of food and drink purchases in the period was 41 494 13 interesting that in a climate of cost cutting pompey did not choose to follow the example considered by chelsea of charging players training for their lunch 3 but pompey players are no longer on chelsea salaries police costs for the 2010 11 season were raised by the police due to the team being in the championship and as a result playing more games while the rationale is clear it does highlight in general a generally ignored discrepancy between the premier league and the championship the number of league games played in the season sure there are the games in europe for some pl teams but the players in the pl strugglers have a less demanding season than those in championship clubs for much higher wages there s something not quite right about this a vat surcharge of 23 224 63 was incurred for the late submission of the vat return for the period ended 30 november 2010 i have withheld these monies and they are currently being held in my client account whilst i challenge the surcharge if i am successful i advise these funds will be forwarded to pfc10 my god hmrc must just love pompey jobsite re signed as club sponsors but at a reduced rate because of the club s relegation nevertheless andronikou reports that the new figure as favourable when compared to other teams in the division some evidence for those who believe in the power of long term sponsor relationships there have been a total of ninety staff redundancies on the one hand this was inevitable but it is all too easy to forget the human cost to those involved the academy has survived in spite of all the pressures this has to be good news for the longer term future of the club sky tv was installed at a cost of 3 092 60 in the club s offices training grounds and hospitality suites a minor amount but isn t it a tad ludicrous that sky gets a revenue from clubs as well as from fans ownership details of pfc 2010 are authorised and issued share capital 1 000 000 ordinary 1 shares shareholder sports holdings asia limited hold 100 directors balram chainrai levi kushnir deepak chainrai david lampitt john redgate company secretary john redgate i confirm that sports holdings asia limited is a british virgin islands company wholly owned by another british virgin islands company horizon eclipse inc horizon horizon has 1 000 ordinary 1 shares both authorised and issued these shares are issued as follows balram chainrai 445 levi kushnir 445 deepak chainrai 100 ashok patel 10 this is not new information 4 and to me is distinctly bad news as soon as i see british virgin islands company i break out in a cold sweat too many too recent memories of falcondrone and portpin this lack of transparency is certainly not helpful and should be eradicated from english football asap among the assets transferred to the new company goodwill is listed at a value of 1 a bit of an over estimate some might think on the sulley muntari transfer saga as previously reported following the sale of sm to inter milan im in 2008 900 000 is now heavily overdue in respect of certain terms within the sale contract im had initially withheld these monies due to the fact that udinese calcio udinese a fellow italian team were due money by the club udinese have now been paid those monies by the pl however udinese believe that further monies are due this matter is in dispute and is ongoing in the courts it is not envisaged that im will make payment until the matter with udinese has been resolved i advise that pfc10 are now continuing to pursue these monies and have full entitlement to any monies realised in this respect just the sort of problem the new club would do without nothing to do with the fact that inter have managed a cumulative loss of 509 million over the last three years then 5 impressive even by pompey standards the ghost of sascha gaydamak continues to haunt the club on the 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