A Scottish international women's footballer has failed in a court bid to recover what she said were unpaid wages from Clyde FC. Lauren Rabbitte took the team and its charitable foundation to an employment tribunal after quitting last year, one day after the club controversially signed David Goodwillie.
Ms Rabbitte, who has played professionally in Scotland, England and in the US, told a tribunal that she had been promised a salary of up to £32,000 as the team's new "head of women's and girl's football". However, the tribunal accepted Clyde FC's counterclaim that she was never employed by the team, and had served as a volunteer on the understanding that funding was being pursued to give her a salary.
The tribunal heard that Ms Rabbitte had been volunteering for Spartans FC and working for her mother's marketing firm when she was approached by the club foundation's David Caldwell to support the organisation's women's football efforts. The pair had a meeting in which she became convinced she had been offered a paid role.
