OXVOX, Oxford United’s supporters’ trust, has called on fans from all non-League clubs to unite and urge the Football Conference to overturn its decision to dock points from four clubs for player registration errors.
Oxford, Crawley, Mansfield and Bognor Regis have all lost points for registration misdeameanours.
And OxVox want supporters o show their feelings towards the Conference’s procedures.
OxVox say in a statement: “We feel it is grossly unfair to penalise teams in such a debilitating way for administrative errors when our league seem incapable of running a database of player registrations that is able to alert them to such errors quickly.
“Not only does such a penalty directly affect the supporters of a club, it seems disproportionate to the penalty for far more serious offences, such as severe mismanagement of a club's finances to the point of having to enter administration.
“The Conference is conducting an internal review of its procedures, which is due to report on February 23.
OxVox would like to raise the profile of the review by inviting non-League football fans to sign our petition at www.PetitionOnline.com/confpts/ petition.html, demanding that each of the affected clubs have their points deduction overturned.”
OxVox say they will present the petition to the Conference ahead of its Review.
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