Darlington FC chairman George Reynolds was involved in a heated live radio exchange with former manager David Hodgson yesterday.

The Quakers supremo was a guest on Paul "Goffy" Gough's Century Radio breakfast show.

He questioned Hodgson's record during his time as Darlington manager and referred to the large bonuses the players were being paid during his spell in charge.

This led Hodgson, who resigned only days before the start of the current season, to telephone the radio station.

Reynolds told him that the club had been paying first division wages even though they were a third division club.

But Hodgson said he was merely trying to achieve Reynolds' vision of taking Darlington into the Premiership.

Hodgson said it was "totally disgraceful" that the players' wages - which were first published in The Northern Echo - had been made public by Reynolds.

He said he left Darlington because the "club was not moving in the direction it should have been".

Reynolds said he would welcome a face-to-face radio discussion with Hodgson in the future.

Hodgson was Darlington's longest-serving manager since the late Cyril Knowles in the mid-1980s.