Following Keith Haslam’s recent public admission that he has broken company law as well as blatantly breaking the Team Mansfield shareholder’s agreement by consistently taking personal loans out of our beloved Mansfield Town Football Club, Keith Haslam has given the SSA Committee no option other than to announce our complete lack of trust and confidence in him. We would like to make it absolutely clear that we wish to see a change in the ownership of our football club. The SSA Committee feel cheated by his actions and that he has treated his customers, the loyal supporters of Mansfield Town, with contempt. Mansfield Town supporters deserve better. Where could and should our Stags be if this loaned money had been invested into the club? Under Mr Haslam’s control we have seen record income from various sources into the club, and supporters expect the majority of club money to be spent on either Field Mill, the infrastructure of the football club or the playing staff. This has clearly not happened during 13 years under Mr Haslam and his reign has produced no progress on the pitch, a large and regular turnover of staff at all levels within the club and several controversial sagas off the pitch which have often brought the name of our football club into disrepute. Our local football club should not exist solely for personal financial benefit of any one person and the SSA Committee would urge Mr Haslam to finally do the right thing and sell his majority shareholding to people with the best interests of Mansfield Town FC and the supporters at heart. SSA hold shares in Team Mansfield and we fully support Team Mansfield Trust’s new approach which has been forced on them by Mr Haslam’s blatant breaking of their agreement. Furthermore, we completely agree with the Trust’s legal campaign to force Mr Haslam to repay his debts and offer our complete support to them.
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