The above would have been ideal but clearly there are some vastly inflated egos involved too.

Yeuk, not good for the image of the club and certainly not good for Kibble.  I hope they don't get away with reducing the wages of the employees, except maybe for those persons party to their decision to fund the case. It might have been sparked by Wardrop's ego-driven antics, how you react is important though. How will it leave the club if Kibble are heavily sanctioned by the charities regulator?  Gillespie, McMillan & Kibble should have just held their noses and walked away from the affair