Disqualification
Risdale's sports consultancy firm WH Sports Group Limited, which provided advice to football clubs from 2003, failed in 2009 with debts of more than £475,000. Ridsale was found to have diverted payments by football clubs totalling £347,000, due to the company, into his personal bank account. In October 2012, he was disqualified as a company director until April 2020 after an inquiry by the Insolvency Service. His wife Sophie Risdale was likewise banned from acting as a director of any company until 2016.
Responding to the ban, Risdale claimed that he was currently only acting as Chairman of Football at Preston North End, not as a director.
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