Errol Pope

Former Yeovil Town director Errol Pope has resigned as a director at CV Leisure, the company which owns a majority stakeholding in the club.

His resignation, registered on Companies House on September 1, leaves Glovers’ chairman Scott Priestnall as the sole remaining director of the business.

It is getting on for a year since the club announced Pope had left the club in December last year with “a heart laden with regret“. His departure was eventually confirmed by his resignation as a director of Yeovil Football & Athletic Club Limited  in August.

Pope remains a director of Yeovil Town Community Sports Trust, according to records on Companies House.

CV Leisure – or Scott Prietsnall as we might as well call it – owns “75% shares or more” of Yeovil Town Holdings Limited, which owns the land around Huish Park.

The rest of the shareholding is held by a variety of different shareholders including some who held shares since the club’s financial troubles of the 1990s.

A filing on Companies House has confirmed that Errol Pope is no longer a director of Yeovil Town.

The former co-owner, who bought the club together with Chairman Scott Priestnall in summer 2019, has had his position at Yeovil Football & Athletic Club Limited terminated.

The filing comes nearly eight months after the club issued a statement from Mr Pope which said he was resigning from his position “with immediate effect.”

Speaking then, he said: “As a consequence of the current global pandemic and its devastating impact, this decision has been taken with a heart laden with regret.

I am saddened that these unprecedented circumstances of uncertainty and plight have prohibited my plans and contributions to the Club, in the way and of the magnitude, I had hoped.”

The filing shows the date of the resignation as December 1, 2020.

However, Companies House still shows Mr Pope as a director of the Yeovil Town Community Sports Trust and CV Leisure Limited, the company established to complete the takeover of the club.