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A whiff of corruption around the Cobblers
Supporters of Northampton Town can breathe again says PETER FROST, but there is still a strange smell at the Sixfields Stadium. It’s the stench of Tory corruption
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Northampton Town fans along with players and employees are a little happier this week, now that former Oxford United chairman Kelvin Thomas has completed his takeover of the Cobblers.
Thomas, who has become executive chairman, has paid the £166,000 owed to HM Revenue & Customs thus avoiding a winding-up petition. Wages are being paid again.
Thomas’s new consortium also includes David Bower, who becomes a director, and Mike Wailing, who becomes non-executive director.
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