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Richardson was forced out of Coventry at the beginning of the year following that club’s relegation and he left them with massive financial problems. There is no doubt that a long hard battle had been won at Highfield Road when they were finally able to remove him from the chair.
He was the major partner in crime with Mr. Pompous in trying to set up a Phoenix League and it looked as though he had done almost as bad a job as Pompous in running his own club.
It looked as though there was a good chance that the new season would start with both of them thankfully out of the game but then Derby Chairman Lionel Pickering incredibly took on Richardson. What was more incredible was Richardson's role at Derby, to raise money.
Having failed miserably at Coventry to even keep the club on an even keel this seemed a rather strange idea and so it has proved and just three months later Richardson is out again.
"Bryan approached me in July and offered to help on the basis that Derby County were experiencing many of the issues he had already been through at Coventry," said Pickering. "He also suggested he could raise some cash for us. That hasn’t happened and although Bryan has tried to help the club, by mutual consent the relationship has ended.
"It was never intended that Bryan should undermine the authority of John Gregory or Keith Loring and he was never formally a director of the club. He was not paid, even expenses."
He added: "The prospect of Bryan bringing a bond to the table now seems highly unlikely, but we continue to work hard behind the scenes and I am more confident than ever that we have a viable financial reconstruction plan for Derby County."
So for the second time in a year Bryan Richardson has been forced to leave a club, maybe he will now join with Mr. Pompous in the Land of Retired Football Chairmen. That’s where he deserves to be.