HINCKLEY RELAUNCH KNOCKED BACK

HINCKLEY LR’s bid for an immediate relaunch at Step 6 after collapsing with debts of more than £330,000 has failed, writes ANDY MITCHELL.

- ANDY MITCHELL

Chairman Kl-Akeredolu, who sold the club’s sole director owing Leicester Road Stadium through a separate entity, applied to the FA to bring the Step 4 dropout straight back into the National League System as Hinckley Rovers.

Akeredolu, who acquired the stadium during the demise of Hinckley United in 2013, a club he was also a director of, put himself forward to be involved with Rovers on an interim but indefinite basis. Leicestershire businessman Tom Cantle was presented as his potential successor but he later told The NLP he had ruled himself out.