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FA chairman defends EFL
- Updated: October 26, 2016
Greg Clarke, the chairman of the Football Association, says he is confident that the English Football League (EFL) are robust in their assessments of new owners.
The EFL are investigating Watford after the Telegraph newspaper claimed they supplied the league with false financial information when Gino Pozzo assumed ownership of the Hornets from his father Giampaolo in 2014.
Questions have been raised as to why the EFL did not spot the potential irregularity at the time of the changeover but Clarke, who was at the Football League at the time of the alleged misconduct, has defended his former employers.
“I think the system is …