Sounds both sensible and pretty simple in this day and age. Meaning football with either a) never adopt it; or b) adopt it but make such a complete and utter **** of it that the system makes things worse than they were before.
Agree entirely about the accountability at the top. My view is more that the accountability is with whoever appointed that person that had never been involved in the administration side of a football club before. Who's to blame - the CEO or the person who appointed them?
I think BFC has a track record of paying terrible salaries for the jobs/ qualifications they expect. Lost count of the times I’ve looked at Job adverts and thought “Wow. Is that all they are paying?”
I thought he had. I thought Khaled had previously worked in a similar role at a Swedish (?) club. I'm not certain about that, it's not something I've researched, I just thought I'd read it. IMHO what led to our expulsion from the FA Cup was gross negligence and should result in the immediate dismissal of the CEO. I wasn't aware that Aiden Marsh was ineligible for the game. But that's because I hadn't been keeping tabs on his loan move to York. I hadn't bothered myself with when it ended and when he returned. But I know the rule. I know if a player is not eligible for the initial game then he remains ineligible for the replay. That's cropped up a number of times over the years and we've always previously adhered to that and usually referred to the situation in prematch press briefings. It's not some archaic red tape. Because there are so many transfers in January, and players returning to parent clubs from loan spells, and because that's the time of the 3rd round of the FA Cup, it's a common occurrence. But we don't get briefed with anything interesting prior to games any more. You don't hear about injuries or suspensions or player ineligibility. You get bombarded with the myriad of different ways you can get yourself arrested for things like looking at someone funny, and which ways you're not allowed to use to get to the ground this week (all routes from what I can fathom) but nothing about players that can't actually play. Turns out it's because they don't know. And it all points to utter incompetence from the top. If the shareholders appointed a CEO who hadn't previously been employed in such a position then yes, they need to do a lot of inward looking, but it doesn't change the fact that Khaled has got to go. They either sack our current CEO who had no previous experience or they sack our current CEO with prior experience but still couldn't cut it.
