Middlesex have been plunged into further controversy after it emerged they were embroiled in a bitter legal battle with Richard Goatley, their former chief executive, over alleged unauthorised payments to himself totalling tens of thousands of pounds. The county have spent recent years in a state of grave financial uncertainty and were sanctioned by the England and Wales Cricket Board this month after they were found to have “been financially mismanaged over a number of years”. They have now...