Former Witney Town chairman Aubrey Oakey has criticised his successor Brian Constable following the club's demise last week.

The club folded, following Constable's failure to find a buyer for the stricken club, who were once a thriving non-league set up.

Oakey, 81, who handed over to Constable in 1993, said he was sad to see the club fold.

"I thought Constable was quite wrong to turn Witney Town into a limited company," said Oakey, who was responsible for the move from Marriotts Close in the town centre to the Downs Road site.

"Before then, it was a members' club with lots of volunteers."

The members voted that the new ground be called Oakey Park, in honour of the man who had spent 40 years at the club as a player, manager and chairman.

One of Constable's first acts was to change the name of the ground to Marriotts Stadium.

Luckily for Oakey, the plaque commemorating the opening of the ground, was retrieved from a pile of rubbish by a steward and presented to him.

It stands proudly alongside old photographs from the club's history, which adorn Oakey's home in St Mary's Mead, Witney.