Thornaby FC are set to nominate a brand new board and reinstate their girls’s groups which have been controversially axed.
The Teesside membership are additionally set to nominate a brand new chief govt officer – Middlesbrough-based businesswoman Alison McGee.
The choice to scrap the ladies’s part of the membership had threatened to depart greater than 100 girls and ladies, some aged as younger as seven, with out a staff.
Together with McGee, different contemporary faces shall be becoming a member of the board.
Excessive-profile figures had criticised the transfer, together with Lioness Beth Mead, who described the choice as “disgusting”.
Aston Villa defender Maz Pacheco wrote on X: “This has blown my mind… How can you just remove a whole women’s and girls section of your club???”
Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen expressed “outrage” on the determination, which he attributed to a “1970s mindset”.
Former Paralympian, Baroness Tanni Gray-Thompson, additionally weighed in, saying: “Women’s sport has come so far and although I understand that running a club brings its own pressures and it is difficult, frankly women and girls deserve more.”
The six board members who voted to scrap the groups have stepped down, together with former chief govt Trevor Wing.
Membership chair Gary Morris voted in opposition to the choice.
