Non-League Paper

How’s Scholes not conflicting interest?

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
17 February 2019

SORRY, but am I missing something here? How on earth can Paul Scholes taking over as manager of Oldham Athletic not be a conflict of interest against the 10 per cent stake he owns in Salford City?
I understand Scholes has been forced to stand down as a director of the Ammies but the fact he still owns a share of the club that could easily be playing in the same league as his team next season is surely a massive conflict of interest! Say his Oldham play Salford on the final day of the League Two season with Salford needing a point to be promoted, but Scholes’ Oldham have nothing to pla...

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