THE Government-backed Independent Football Commission have confessed they are powerless to settle the two-year dispute between Gillingham chairman Paul Scally and lifelong fan Alan Liptrott.

Mr Liptrott is banned for life from Priestfield after refusing to sell the chairman his website domain name.

He has also declined to pay him £6,000 plus VAT in legal fees which Mr Scally says he paid in legal fees in pursuit of the domain name.

Mr Liptrott sought the intervention of the IFC in February this year and their representative Alan Watson met with Mr Scally at Priestfield but was unable to negotiate a solution to the impasse.