Basketball: Dismissed Nemeth goes to tribunal
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Your support makes all the difference.Laszlo Nemeth, the England senior teams' coach who has had no team to lead for most of 2003, has been made redundant by England Basketball and plans to take the sport's governing body to an employment tribunal.
Nemeth's prime role with the senior men's team was underminedearly this year when the impoverished EB, the scale of whose debts was revealed in The Independent 13 months ago, failed to enter the 2005 European Championship.
Nemeth's solicitor, Paul Booth, said that EB "had decided to dispense with the services of Dr Laszlo Nemeth, the national teams' coach, saying he is redundant" and that an "application to the industrial tribunal had now been made".
Although the often rancorous relationship between Nemeth and his former employers predates the arrival of the EB's recently appointed chief executive, Keith Mair, any further financial burden resulting from a legal action will fall into the New Zealander's in-tray.
EB sold its Leeds headquarters earlier this year to raise funds to service debt and moved to Sheffield. Last month, basketball was excluded from the 20 sports to receive funding from 2005 until 2009 from Sport England, which favours sports with medal-winning potential.
Mair, a former coach to the NZ Tall Blacks, confirmed that Nemeth had been made redundant but declined to comment. When appointed, Mair had said: "England Basketball does not have the finance to fund a team or a programme. They had to act prudently and now we are trying to build from the bottom again."
Mair favours the surviving national teams coming under a national performance director.
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