I've had it happen a couple of times in Scotland, once with Montrose, once with Stranraer, and both times I was never really sure how it happened. I do know that it had nothing to do with having all staff on full-time contracts, because I was at that point both times and still remained semi-pro. If pressed for a hypothesis here, I would say to has to do with the wages paid to each player. This is because both occasions that I finally noticed (after who knows how long) the status change, I had players making decent wages i.e. living wages for all but youths
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