The execution, timing and lack of media (not SM) announcements of the decision.
The club (1st team & office / ground staff) benefitted from the so called ‘gravy train’ over many a year.
The Auditors never trawl through the minutiae of the accounts, the content of cross company charges, the validity of cross company charges, the work content (man hours) claimed in cross company charges, invoices logged to the incorrect account, invoices for services not used or equipment etc never purchased allocated to the wrong account.
EFL rules state that Academies should have a separate bank account and accounting system for the academies.
This never existed at Scunthorpe.
The EFL were more interested in, for example:
1 age appropriate pitches
2 age appropriate goals
3 full size 4G pitch
4 hydrotherapy pools
Etc
Jesus, the first team have never had a full size 4G training pitch, let alone the academy!
Hydrotherapy pools – fart in the bath the physio may have been heard to say to the injured first team players.
It was a beg, borrow and make do set up.
It was never a ‘gravy train’
