Thornaby FC are set to nominate a brand new board and reinstate their ladies’s groups which have been controversially axed.
The Teesside membership are additionally set to nominate a brand new chief government officer – Middlesbrough-based businesswoman Alison McGee.
The choice to scrap the ladies’s part of the membership had threatened to depart greater than 100 ladies and women, some aged as younger as seven, and not using a group.
Together with McGee, different contemporary faces might 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 resolution, 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 government Trevor Wing.
Membership chair Gary Morris voted in opposition to the choice.
