with the governing body of formula one effectively banning briatore from the sport indefinately,
does he fulfil the 'fit and proper person' criteria you need to be a chairman of a football club?
He's a cheat. He's been convicted of "match" fixing. And he's been banned from ever taking part in the sport again. If he is now considered a "fit and proper" person to run a football club, then the Football League have slumped to the very lowest level.
He should be instructed to terminate his involvement in football in this country - and elsewhere - immediately. Football has enough of its own problems to deal with, without the need to import cheats from other sports.
The Football League has asked Formula 1's governing body the FIA for more details of Flavio Briatore's ban.
The Queens Park Rangers co-owner and ex-Renault team boss has been suspended indefinitely from FIA-sanctioned events over the F1 race-fixing scandal.
According to Football League rules, nobody can be a director or hold a majority interest in a club if they are banned from a sport's governing body.
The league said it will consider its position once the FIA has replied.
The 59-year-old Italian left his post as Renault team principal last week, along with executive director of engineering Pat Symonds, after the team decided not to contest FIA charges of fixing the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
The charges were brought after Nelson Piquet Jr claimed he had been asked to crash in order to help team-mate Fernando Alonso.
At a World Motor Sport Council hearing on Monday, Briatore was banned with the FIA adding that it would not grant a licence to any team he was involved with or renew an F1 Superlicence granted to any driver associated with him.
Briatore is co-owner of QPR along with F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal.
He is also chairman of the holding company that owns the club and a director on the board of the Championship side.
The Loftus Road club have refused to comment on the FIA's findings
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He should be instructed to terminate his involvement in football in this country - and elsewhere - immediately. Football has enough of its own problems to deal with, without the need to import cheats from other sports.
The Queens Park Rangers co-owner and ex-Renault team boss has been suspended indefinitely from FIA-sanctioned events over the F1 race-fixing scandal.
According to Football League rules, nobody can be a director or hold a majority interest in a club if they are banned from a sport's governing body.
The league said it will consider its position once the FIA has replied.
The 59-year-old Italian left his post as Renault team principal last week, along with executive director of engineering Pat Symonds, after the team decided not to contest FIA charges of fixing the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix.
The charges were brought after Nelson Piquet Jr claimed he had been asked to crash in order to help team-mate Fernando Alonso.
At a World Motor Sport Council hearing on Monday, Briatore was banned with the FIA adding that it would not grant a licence to any team he was involved with or renew an F1 Superlicence granted to any driver associated with him.
Briatore is co-owner of QPR along with F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone and steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal.
He is also chairman of the holding company that owns the club and a director on the board of the Championship side.
The Loftus Road club have refused to comment on the FIA's findings
NB Mittal will buy him out.