Elgin City have dismissed manager Allan Hale “with immediate effect after a finding of gross misconduct”.<\/p>\n
The club had promoted assistant Stefan Laird to acting manager on 11 May, four days after suspending Hale.<\/p>\n
And the Scottish League 2 club said on X on Friday: “Following the conclusion of an internal investigation conducted in accordance with the club’s policies and procedures, we can confirm that the men’s first-team manager has been dismissed with immediate effect after a finding of gross misconduct.<\/p>\n
“The club will make no further comment on this matter.<\/p>\n
“We can now fully focus on the positive process of appointing a new manager and the continuation of our player recruitment plans.”<\/p>\n
Hale’s suspension came after Elgin finished sixth in Scotland’s fourth tier. He took charge in December 2023.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old former Fraserburgh player previously managed Highland League clubs Huntly and Keith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elgin City have dismissed manager Allan Hale “with immediate effect after a finding of gross misconduct”. The club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}