Notts County pay players and staff after Alan Hardy's company goes into administration
Thursday 28 February 2019 16:03, UK
Notts County staff and players have been paid their February wages despite owner Alan Hardy's business going into administration, Sky Sports News understands.
Club owner Hardy's interior design company, Paragon Interiors Group PLC, went into administration on Wednesday after it ran out of cash and was unable to pay its employees.
Leonard Curtis Recovery were called in to act as administrators.
The news - predicted by Sky Sports News on Monday - had come as a real blow to the world's oldest football league club.
Hardy bought and helped fund Notts County with the aid of a loan from Paragon worth just under £7m.
Sky Sports News understands the administrators could call in that debt, putting the club itself at risk of going into administration, automatically triggering a points penalty from the EFL.
County are currently bottom of the Football League, facing relegation from the professional leagues for the first time in their history.
