Speaking to the Mansfield CHAD, Curle had this to say "The investigation and the involvement of Alan Meale was a total sham and the judge has backed this up"
"I told Mr Meale that this was nothing other than a witchunt and asked him to be fair and thourough during the investigation, unfortunately he was not."
"Alan Meale's only involvement in this was to give the proceedings an air of credibility and, as a Member of Parliament and someone so closely involved with the club, it is very surprising that he was involved like this."
"He should have distance himself from the proceedings."
In response, Alan Meale told the CHAD "The club had no alternative but to pursue the case and was duty bound to investigate allegations of bullying on a young player."
"The judge said i acted in an honest and fair way during this investigation."