Fit and proper people

Much has been made over the last decade of the numerous people who have become involved in sport, especially football club ownership, only for subsequent questions to be raised about their other business activities. Whether these people have been of a fit and proper nature to be involved in sport has thus become an important issue that has still to be completely satisfactorily addressed, both in football and elsewhere in sport. It is therefore interesting that the England and Wales Cricket Board has just severed all connections with Sir Allen Stanford following allegations concerning fraudulent activities in which he has apparently been involved. Will the cricket authorities be consequently spurred on to become the first sport to implement a rigorous fit and proper person test? Or does much broader and deeper action need to be taken across sport to ensure that good governance principles in sport are upheld?