FA ‘OFFICER’ PROBE INTO MOORS CEO

THE FA has launched an investigation into Solihull Moors chief executive Mike Turl – the man who served the club while under a two-year ban from the British Horseracing Authority (BHA).

The NLP understands FA chiefs interviewed Turl on Friday about his Owners and Directors Declaration as well as the nature of a recent meeting he allegedly attended with at least one representative of Oxford United.

In April 2013, former Bristol Rovers director Turl admitted to BHA charges of conspiring with ex-West Bromwich Albion footballer Neil Clement and/or others to commit a corrupt or fraudulent practice.

Turl was fined £10,000 and suspended until April 21, 2015.

According to Companies House, Turl was appointed a director of Solihull Moors Football Club CIC on June 12 of this year, but club chairman Trevor Stevens confirmed Turl had held the position of CEO “for the past three or four years”.

Turl spoke in the capacity of CEO when quoted by the

Birmingham Mail in April 2016, explaining Moors had reached the end of a “three-year strategy” that had been implemented when he arrived.

Under FA rules in place throughout Turl’s Moors tenure, anyone acting as an officer of a club must declare they are not “currently banned or suspended by a sports governing body from involvement in the administration of, or participation in, that sport”.

The public nature of Turl’s racing exile could land Moors in hot water as “any club that knowingly allows a declaration to be submitted that is false in any particular shall be guilty of misconduct”.

National League regulations state that if any person or entity is found to have completed false or misleading statements or acted as an officer when in breach of the requirements, individuals, entities or clubs “shall be subject to such fine or other sanction as may be determined the by FA”.

Turl and Stevens politely declined to comment, while the FA had yet to respond to a request for more information as The

NLP went to press.