Express & Star

Lynch ban is upheld

HALESOWEN TOWN owner Steve Lynch has failed to overturn the FA’s decision to ban him from football for two years at an appeal hearing.

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It means Lynch will be unable any football activity from July 1, 2017, until July 1, 2019. Chairman Karen Brooks takes over the day-to-day running of the Evo-Stik League Premier Division club, assisted by a group of volunteers.

The majority of the 12 charges – three for Lynch and nine for the club – surrounded Lynch's involvement at the now defunct Eastwood Town and an failure to disclose an interest in Yeltz. Other charges centred on a breach of loan rules in 2012 and issues issues concerning the reporting of the club's accounts between 2011 and 2013.