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Football clubs across the country are breathing a little easier today after news emerged that John Batchelor has been banned from being a company director. The serial club hunter, who aided York's fall into the Conference and wanted to rename Mansfield after a fictional TV side, received a seven year ban for illegal activities while a director of two companies that he took into Administration. He will be free to terrorise lower league sides again in 2016.
Stockport are set to sell midfielder Carl Baker to Coventry to ease their immediate financial worries. The former Morecambe and Southport man cost the club £175,000 in the summer of 2008. Northampton are to extend defender John Johnson's loan from Middlesboro until the end of the season. The 21 year old has played 15 times since arriving in September, but will miss tomorrow's match as his current 93 day loan has expired.
Former Kidderminster player Jeff Kenna wants their manager's job after returning from a spell in Irish football. Kenna managed two sides in the League of Ireland before returning to England recently to act as a community coach for Birmingham.
