Hereford expelled from Football Conference for failing to pay creditors
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Version 0 of 1. Hereford United have been expelled from the Football Conference after they missed their latest deadline to pay football creditors. Hereford’s expulsion means Chester, relegated from the Skrill Conference Premier League on the final day of last season, will be reinstated and Hayes & Yeading will not be relegated from the Conference South. Cash-strapped Hereford were given a deadline of 5pm on 5 June to pay football creditors, but missed that. However, following a meeting ahead of the Conference AGM last weekend, the club were given a further extension allowing for the recent takeover by the London businessman Tommy Agombar. They were required to have cleared funds to pay their creditors by Monday, but once again failed to comply with the Conference’s demands and their membership from the competition has been revoked. A Conference statement read: “The club has confirmed it will not meet the requirements, to which it previously agreed, set by the board of the Football Conference Ltd on Friday 6 June enabling the club to retain its membership. “As the club was advised at the above meeting, the board has exercised its unanimous decision that should the club fail to fulfil the requirements it would be expelled from the Competition and the Company under Article 5.2. “At the Annual General Meeting on 7 June of the Football Conference Ltd, the member clubs agreed to an alternative Constitution for the 2014-15 season, in case of the above eventuality. Chester FC will now be reprieved from relegation from the Premier Division and Hayes & Yeading United FC will be reprieved from relegation from Conference South.” Hereford had seemingly secured their Skrill Conference Premier status with a dramatic late win over Aldershot on the last day of the season in April which took them above Chester. |