MP questions former Pompey owner

The shadow sports minister has questioned how former Portsmouth owner Vladimir Antonov was allowed to take over the club as the spectre of administration looms again for the south-coast side.

Clive Efford MP says warnings about the London-based Russian businessman's bank by the Financial Services Authority were not heeded and he was given the go-ahead by the Football League.

Efford, Labour's spokesman on sport, said: "If these concerns about Antonov were there on the FSA website then why were these not taken up by the football authorities?"

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