The Football Conference has been trying to keep a tighter rein on the way which its member clubs run their finances through their Financial Reporting Initiative which should give early warning of any problems. Welling United lost five points in September for failing to accurately inform the league of their finances.
The Football Conference has been trying to keep a tighter rein on the way which its member clubs run their finances through their Financial Reporting Initiative which should give early warning of any problems. Welling United lost five points in September for failing to accurately inform the league of their finances.
Kidderminster Harriers had a personal hearing over breach of the league’s financial rules last Friday, but they are going to be give a second chance within the next fortnight. Kidderminster went through a difficult period which led to changes in the boardroom.
Histon has also been charged with misconduct under Rule 18. They have not yet paid their players for December, but hope to before Christmas. The new regime at Histon keeps encountering unpleasant surprises like unpaid £80,000 tax bills.
The demographics of the two clubs are strikingly different. Histon and nearby Impingham have a combined population of only just over 8,000, making them in effect large villages. However, they have been growing rapidly because of the need to provide housing for people working in nearby Cambridge, something of a boom town with its hi tech industries spun off from the university.
Kidderminister is an old industrial town on the edge of the Birmingham conurbation which was once a major centre of the carpet industry. Although many people living in the town support clubs in the conurbation, it has a strong distinctive spirit, shown by the fact that it returned an independent MP until the 2010 election.