Yeltz banned as debts not paid

Halesowen Town has been suspended from all football – as supporters plead for owner Morell Maison to put the club into administration.

The Yeltz are reportedly £250,000 in debt and failed to meet a Football Association deadline on Friday to pay monies owed – believed to be £13,000 – to two clubs and a former player. The payments to the clubs, one of them Cambridge United, relate to loan deals the Yeltz made last season.

Owner and manager Mr Maison took over in October 2007 but his reign has been beset by problems and he is banned from football until August after the FA found him guilty of violent conduct and failure to provide information earlier this year.

Gary Willetts, vice-chairman of supporters group the Yeltz Trust, wants Mr Maison to put the club into administration to wipe out their debt. He said: "Even though we've seen it unfold in front of us we're still shell-shocked. We are trying to do what we can but until Morell puts the club into administration our hands are tied."

An FA spokesman confirmed the deadline had not been met, meaning Saturday's friendly at Bromsgrove has already been cancelled.