Hatters call board meeting
13 Nov 2006 - 11:39:20
Luton Town have called an emergency board meeting for Monday afternoon in the wake of boss Mike Newell's controversial comments regarding female officials and Hatters chairman Bill Tomlins after Saturday's 3-2 home defeat to QPR.
Newell is already in trouble with the FA following the comments he made about lineswoman Amy Rayner.
A Luton statement said: "The meeting is to discuss the comments made by the manager, Mike Newell, at Saturday's post-match press conference.
"A formal statement will be made following the board meeting."
Newell said after the match: "I've not spoken to the chairman for months. I can't understand what he's doing here.
"The club has gone backwards off the pitch during the last two years. He's not made any decisions and he has contributed nothing."
On Rayner, he added: "It's bad enough with the incapable referees and linesmen we have, but if you start bringing in women, you have big problems.
"This is Championship football. This is not park football, so what are women doing here? It is tokenism, for the politically-correct idiots.
"She should not be here. I know that sounds sexist but I am sexist, so I'm not going to be anything other than that."
Newell apologised for his comments relating to match officials on Monday morning.