Maidstone United are set to challenge the National League in court with the hope of exposing their 'ineptitude' according to director Terry Casey.
'Away from playing matters, we are continuing to pursue the National League over the way that their board of directors ignored clear directives from the DCMS to distribute the £10million funding from Camelot and proceeded to give themselves substantially more money than they could ever have received in gate receipts.
We will have our day in court because what happened was so blatantly unjust that we feel that we must expose the league for their ineptitude.
The final nail in the National League’s coffin of integrity came last week with the appointment of a new chairman, a person who was largely responsible for the hopelessly skewed distribution of a £10 million grant, so generously given, but then shared out with so little integrity or honesty.
The National League statement of how the appointment was made and how the decision to appoint Jack Pearce was done fairly – following due process – leaves me with nothing but cynicism.
This is the same National League that refuses to release the independent review panel’s findings, that still refuses to give any explanation as to how they calculated the October distribution, that seems to have no recollections of their conversations with DCMS about how the grants would be turned into loans after January and the same league that conveniently has never kept any minute or records of any of the meetings.
Does the executive of the league expect us to believe that the appointment was made fairly and with due process in the light of what has gone on before? As I said I can only feel the deepest cynicism.
It is regrettable that our expectations of the management’s honesty and governance of football is at an all-time low.'