TERRY Venables is unlikely to face any action from the Football League over the involvement of Eddie Ashby, his financial advisor, at Portsmouth.

League secretary David Dent has written to the former England boss asking for an explanation of Ashby's duties following comments made by director Vic Jenner when he resigned this week.

But Ashby, banned for seven years from acting as a director by the DTI after a string of failed businesses, has no official title at the first division club. Jenner resigned on Monday, saying: "There are certain individuals in the club taking responsibilities which they should not be given."