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Apologies if this is old news but Jim Rodwell has become the new Chief Executive of Notts County:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 511198.stm

Also I found this Notts County forum, which has some interesting reading within it:

http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tn ... 2122836009

From Football Forums:
Jim Rodwell is an amoral man. One minute, in February 2002, he was playing for Dagenham & Redbridge in the middle of a promotion battle to get them out of the Conference. Rodwell was on loan from Rushden, with a fee agreed for the transfer to be made permanent. But then Rushden mysteriously recalled him, citing an injury crisis. Blow me down, they even more mysteriously let him go on a "free transfer" the very next day. The next thing we know, Rodwell scores a last-minute equaliser for Boston at home to Barnet, earning a precious point which ultimately got the Pilgrims promoted – at the expense of Dagenham & Redbridge, who finished one place behind them on goal difference.

Money talks, and no money talks louder than cash. Four years on Jim Rodwell is the 'chairman' of Boston United and is happy to retain Steve Evans as his manager despite the latter being named and shamed and finally, grudgingly, admitting his criminal complicity in defrauding the public purse to the tune of £323,000.

I remember he was always one of the smarter footballers coming second to Clarke Carlisle in a quiz to find Britain's brainiest footballer, with Barry Hunter third - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/242989 ... tures.html

It will be interested to see what sort of job he does there - I think he had a bad press over goings on at Boston United when he was there.

The seedier side of football does seem to follow him around like a bad smell doesn't it? He was also rumoured to be involved in various brown paper bag transactions, but those accusations came to nothing. Good luck to him though - City are going places !!

Formic wrote:I remember he was always one of the smarter footballers coming second to Clarke Carlisle in a quiz to find Britain's brainiest footballer, with Barry Hunter third - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/242989 ... tures.html

It will be interested to see what sort of job he does there - I think he had a bad press over goings on at Boston United when he was there.

Clarke Carlisle is going to be appearing on Countdown soon as well.

Heard this on Radio 1 yesterday and he did a short interview