Excellent. Let's hope Coxall is having a few sleepless nights waiting for his dodgy dealings to come to light.

There is nothing clever there - those two are clearly thick as f-k. Must have been the easiest police investigation ever.

Yet Russ and originally Ken were seemingly taken in by them at the time....

Russ wanted to work alongside them...

Ken just wanted shot.

Now on the mail website but the last paragraph is a bit worrying

Harris said although he was to be the 'front man’, he "believed we were going to make a real go of it", and claimed they had the gate receipts paid into the TMH account because there was "petty theft throughout the club".

Read more at: http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/cr ... -1-8805655

It's not really worrying given he's just been found guilty of fraud in a court of law. People tend to lie when they are trying to get off with crimes that will see them do time if they are found guilty. What sort of explanation is that anyway for trousering all of the gate money and how would not putting it all in your own bank account protect it from 'petty theft'. These blokes were a total charlatans it's staggering the 'take over' got as far as it did, utterly staggering.

When it all washes out I think you'll find that Russ Green comes out with some credit. Particularly in relation to a 200K transfer out of the club that he stopped happening.

Fair enough, just the up front vetting/due diligence part which was weak

It was handed over to two shysters by the former owners following a failed attempt by the former owners to hand it over to two shysters. There is a common denominator.

You say that, but a certain mister green was around when the second set of shysters appeared too.

Once bitten and all that.