EX-BLACKPOOL chairman Karl Oyston's employment tribunal with the League One club has been postponed, Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service has announced.

The two-day hearing had been scheduled to start today in Manchester but was called off on Tuesday and has not yet been relisted for a new date.

The 51-year-old is effectively suing his father Owen Oyston, the club's soon-to-be-ousted owner, for unpaid wages.

Karl Oyston was Blackpool's chairman from 1999 to February 2018, when he quit following a high court ruling that he and his father had been guilty of "illegitimately stripping" the club's assets following their season in the Premier League in 2010/11.

That verdict ultimately led to another high court appearance last week, when receivers were appointed to sell the club in order to settle the Oystons' £25million debt to former club president Valeri Belokon.

Those receivers, David Rubin and Paul Cooper, are set to formally take over at Bloomfield Road in the next 48 hours and Press Association Sport understands they do not see the Oyston family row over money as an obstacle to their work.

It is not known when the relationship between father and son started to unravel but they have been in open dispute since Belokon started legal proceedings against them in early 2017.

Karl Oyston, who took over the club chairmanship from his mother Vicki, wanted his father to sell the club and settle with their former business partner Belokon but Owen Oyston decided to dig in and fight.

This fundamental difference of opinion led to Owen ousting Karl as chairman and also removing Karl's son, Sam, as chief executive. A month later, Karl told the English Football League that his father, who was convicted of rape and indecent assault in 1996, was not "fit and proper" to run a club.

Attempts to reach both Karl and Owen Oyston have been unsuccessful but Blackpool said it was not something they could comment on.