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eech curator of scoop it football finance home about courses links no of clubs overviews research resources recent posts content at coventry on coventry city hereford united and salisbury city not forgetting the owners directors test moving on from sisu out ready to come back onto the e pitch opening a can of worms for once a personal note part and parcel of the modern game the stadium curse pompey the turning point round up of season 2011 12 a little light uefanomics so is it really goodbye bluebirds hello red dragons deconstructing peter lorimer why i shall be especially grumpy this saturday afternoon the new broken time payments recent updates newest first worcester city update plymouth update cardiff debt down from guns to darts governance update fickle fate update intern shooting update russo v scally result olympic stadium latest jack frost update portsmouth latest liverpool inconsistency fifa political interference latest croydon athletic latest ilkeston latest welling update 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country for a week working in the tirol i find it quite surprising in some ways how little has happened or to be more precise resolved itself two sagas which have been on my radar screens for several weeks have made no real progress towards a denouement the cases of plymouth argyle and wrexham for both clubs fans face the continuing uncertainty of who will be the new owners the former is now in the hands of an administrator and the sale of the club seems at least at the time i write to hinge on the issue of how much previous owners are prepared to write off with respect to home park 1 in the case of the latter well one reason i haven t blogged on the trials of the club is the sheer rate at which stories have been breaking ian king over at twohundredpercent has been doing an excellent job in keeping the story up to date with added interpretation and comment but even he seems to have grown just a tad weary of following the wilder intricacies of the competition to buy the club arguably the only ray of sunshine for wrexham fans has been the fact that they have been spared stephen vaughan as owner while there is a significant difference between the two clubs in terms of who is selling the club an administrator on the one hand and how on earth do i summarise the situation at wrexham let s just say a sale by the latest of a series of benefactors what is particularly striking is an obvious similarity when it comes to the sale of a club it is the club as company that is for sale and any concerns for the club as construct take a seriously back seat if you are not clear about the distinction i am making see an earlier posting there is of course an inevitability about this but surely there should systems in place to ensure that the continuity of the club as construct is not compromised through a bad change in club as company at present there are two checks in place the fit and proper person test and the handing over of the golden share there are so many examples of the repeated sale of a football club think portsmouth with four owners last season a period in administration and still an uncertain ownership for the future that it is obvious that these two checks are woefully inadequate amazingly the fa set up a committee no i know that s not amazing but bear with me back in 2003 to sort out an effective fit and proper person test 1 and i take it as self evident that we do not yet have one similarly the golden share is normally handed on to new owners with little thought to the wellbeing of the club as construct football governance and its current inadequacies are very much on the agenda and i live in hope of serious change my submission to the house of commons select committee is downloadable here all submissions are available here increasingly i am minded that the introduction of a rigorous system of club registration is the reform we need to improve football governance one of the major difficulties i see for any reform is the issue of transition to a new system for example advocates of introducing the bundesliga system with 50 1 fan ownership seldom explain just how the current share holdings of the club will be transferred to fan ownership which 50 a club registration system can be designed so that the well run club need make little or no changes to become registered badly run clubs would have to reform and when a club changes hands the new ownership would be placed under close scrutiny it s just a pity that any reform will come too late to remove the current worries of plymouth argyle wrexham portsmouth etc etc fans all they can do is pray is that their club as company is delivered into ethical and benevolent hands and that their club as construct survives without in the worst case scenario an accrington stanley aldershot maidstone united or the many more recent 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 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