IN A perfect homage to the previous nine months, Swindon put in a pathetic performance against Scunthorpe last Saturday to officially confirm our return to the basement of the Football League.

Sometimes when relegation happens you can blame many different factors, but in this instance it falls simply on the owner and chairman Lee Power.

Ever since taking sole control, the owner has overseen three summer transfer windows and failed to build a squad in every one.

Last summer all Town fans said the same thing - our squad was not good enough, and it needed funds and proper investment.

Instead Power provided some half-decent loan players, a non-league prospect, a guy who couldn’t get a game at Coventry and a striker who wasn’t scoring goals at Gillingham.

No matter how much talent was loaned in over January, the damage had already been done.

After the game on Saturday Power categorically said he wasn’t going anywhere. If that’s the case he must step back from running the football side of the club and hand it over to one man - a manager.

That man cannot be Luke Williams. It was clear from his post-match interview that Williams has lived and breathed Swindon Town since his appointment as head coach. But he’s so clearly out of his depth it’s been hard to watch.

After Sunday’s final match against Charlton, Power has to relieve Williams of his duties and find a manager.

Not a head coach, not a director of football, but a real manager, and ditch our current director of football Tim Sherwood, who seems to think Town is beneath him.

Mr Sherwood, the feeling is mutual.

After appointing a manager, leave him alone to do his job, not get involved. Power’s job is to run the football club behind the scenes and nothing else.

If he does that, then maybe we can return to League One at the first time of asking.

But knowing he can’t resist getting involved in everything, we may need to pick a comfortable seat in League Two for a while.