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IS IT TIME FOR A SALARY CAP?

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THE then President of the Football Conference Bill King stood to address the AGM. The board, he said, had decided to introduce a salary cap for the following season. It was the best way, he added, to avoid the growing incidences of clubs going bust. Cue uproar in the room, led by the then owner of Kettering Town, Imraan Ladak.
I was there as chair man of Weymouth, having been invited back in when the club was a basket base in 2009 and naively believed I could help.
I was all for the salary cap. I had walked back into my home town club to find a debt of £750,000 that would prove beyond...

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