Death of the Silkmen
Like the main character in Arthur Miller's famous play, Death of a Salesman, the FA and Football League have the inability to accept change in themselves as organisations and society as a whole. The winding up of Macclesfield Town in the High Court, a season after Bury were let down equally badly, shows how the “Fit & Proper Person’s Test” which the Football League have and the FA’s “Owners & Directors Test Regulations” are not worth the paper a football manager’s contract is written on. Supposedly designed to protect football clubs from unscrupulous owners and directors it seemingly does nothing to protect clubs once someone deemed suitable takes over then becomes unsuitable. The Governing bodies of our sport have failed to adapt to the likes of Amar Alkhadi and Vincent Tan and though they have passed their initial tests they have failed to act once problems have arisen. The EFL and FA have their own interpretations of what is required, both very similar and