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The Football League have honoured the departing Joan Fennessey at their AGM in Malta.
She was one of three people honoured at the event, with her impending departure after 34 years seeing a long service award being made.
The AGM also saw a number of rule changes.
Clubs will now be required to lodge their accounts with the FL at the same time as they are required by Companies House. Failure to comply will result in a transfer embargo. Administration rules have also been amended to specifically include clubs, like Southampton, that went into Administration as part of a bigger group of companies.
Leyton Orient chairman Barry Hearn has his proposal of automatic demotion by two divisions for any side entering Administration voted out, but the FL have undertaken to review their rules and penalties. The 'Fit and proper persons test' has been renamed the 'Director's Test'.
Clubs will also only be allowed 25 players over the age of 21, ten of which must be 'home grown' - having spent three seasons playing domestically prior to the 21st birthday. No restriction are placed on the number of players under 21.
The 'home grown' rule would not affect the Bulls if last season's squad was taken into account. Of the contracted players over 21 only Edrissa Sonko would not have been classed as 'home grown'.
