DONCASTER Rovers is set to agree a deal with Doncaster Council which will see it take day-to-day control of the Keepmoat Stadium.

The football club will pay the council £100,000 per year, rising with inflation, in return for a 99-year lease on the ground.

In the six years since it opened the council has operated the stadium through a management company which has built up losses of £2.1m when it was supposed to be generating an annual surplus of £300,000.

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