YORK City boss Chris Brass has welcomed the "fit and proper test" that could be applicable to all Football League club directors by August.

The Independent Football Commission's second annual report has made the recommendation and those sentiments are expected to be echoed by a similar report published by the All-Party Parliamentary Football Group today.

Such a test would make club chairmen and board members more accountable for their actions and could even prompt charges of bringing the game into disrepute, putting them in line with players and managers.

The Football League have already announced their plans to introduce the test for the start of next season.

Off-the-pitch problems have dominated Brass' career as a player and manager at Bootham Crescent but he said that he believed the club's current board would comfortably fulfil the criteria set by any test.

He said: "It's a strange one but I think there's going to be times when directors do bring the game into disrepute. You see managers and players being charged with things but sometimes there's more drama in the directors' box than in certain games.

"I think the Football League are taking a stance on something that needs addressing and it will be interesting to see what way, form or shape the test is run and its results. You have to have football people in the game and I would be happy to take it as I am sure our directors would be."

Football League chairman Sir Brian Mawhinney said: "The League opened discussions with its clubs about the introduction of a 'Fit and Proper' persons test in November.

"Clubs have since been further consulted and chairmen have been alerted to the probability that specific proposals will go before the League's AGM in June."

In response to the IFC report, the Football League have also confirmed that the amount of money paid out to agents by each of its member clubs will be published this summer. All payments to agents have been included in new player registrations since January 1.

Division Three clubs will also continue to be limited to spending only 60 per cent of their turnover on players' wages with Second Division clubs subject to the restriction as well from next season.

In addition, the League has introduced a ten-point "sporting sanction" for clubs entering administration from the end of the current season, as a deterrent against over-spending.

New player contracts must also now indicate remuneration levels for different divisions played in during the term of the contract while promoted First and Second Division clubs will now contribute to a parachute payment fund for clubs relegated to the Second and Third Divisions.

Updated: 10:49 Wednesday, February 11, 2004