Stratford Town owner Jed McCrory is standing in local elections this week on a mission to help reduce knife crime after their defender Cody Fisher was stabbed to death.
McCrory used to run Swindon Town and Worcester Warriors previously. He then stepped in to aid his stricken local football club Stratford when the Bards were just six weeks away from administration in 2019.
He has since transformed the part-time Southern League Premier Central side, in the town where William Shakespeare was from. But they were plunged into tragedy when defender Fisher, 23, died on Boxing Day outside a nightclub in Birmingham. The full-back worked at St Gregory’s school locally, where among the kids he coached was McCrory’s six year old son Max.
