FORMER AFC Totton main sponsor and Havant & Waterlooville vice-chairman Jim Fallon is back in football after serving a three-and-a-half year Football Association ban.

Fallon – along with Havant & Waterlooville and then assistant manager Sean New - was found guilty by the FA of transfer irregularities in May 2013. He was suspended from all football and football activities until July 2016 and hit with a £5,000 fine.

With the ban now completed, he has pitched up at Vanarama National League South outfit Gosport Borough where he intends helping out solely in a financial capacity.

Fallon, who still refutes the FA charge against him, first appeared on the local non-League scene with AFC Totton in September 2011, sponsoring the club through his Landford-based company Beaumont Water Heaters.

But that ended the following March and Fallon alienated many at the club by publicly withdrawing his sponsorship and accusing the Stags executive committee of being like “nodding dogs – all talk and no action.”

He subsequently reappeared as vice-chairman of Havant & Waterlooville, but that too ended acrimoniously.

When Totton were going through serious financial problems in 2013, Fallon’s name cropped up again as part of a consortium looking to take over the club – even though he was then under the FA ban. Totton flagged the matter up to the FA, but Fallon insisted he had nothing to do with Testwood Park Limited.

Gosport had to overcome their own financial problems last season and chairman Mark Hook was quoted this week saying: “What we need at Gosport are people prepared to help the club.

“The second half of last season was particularly difficult, but we have overcome that now.

“It is good to have people of the calibre of Jim helping because he knows his football.”