BOSS Martin Canning insists it is “business as usual” at Hamilton despite the club falling victim to a major fraud last week.
Reports suggest Accies lost around £900,000 following what they described as “an elaborate fraud” in a statement released on Friday, and are working with Police Scotland in a criminal investigation.
However, Canning praised the club’s board, who have injected their own funds to help with the day-to-day running, for their reaction to the crisis and insisted it has had no effect whatsoever on the players’ performances.
Accies went down 2-1 at home to Motherwell on Saturday, the day after the statement was released, but Canning played down the timing.
“The owners came in last Friday and spoke to the players and that was a great thing to do because everybody knows where we stand,” he said.
“They’ve just said it’s business as usual in terms of the football department. We just go and work away and they will work and deal with the other stuff.
“From a footballing point of view it’s not really been an effect, we’ve just got to keep our heads down and work hard in training and turn that into results on Saturday.”
He added: “Absolutely nothing changed. It’s just a case of working away as normal.”
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