"If it limits the number of bad agents in the game then it's good. It shouldn't be a given you could just go in and work in football," says former Walsall and Doncaster defender Jimmy O'Connor, who has joined Wasserman.

Nathan, on loan at Walsall, is a client of Murdock Sports Group, which counts Napoli's Scott McTominay and Manchester United's Jonny Evans as two of its highest-profile players.

Elsewhere, a man had to be rescued from his car in Walsall as West Midlands Fire Service warned people not to drive through flood water.

Mr Adams, from Walsall, had gone home following the incident.

All six councils - Dudley, Sandwell, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall and Nuneaton and Bedworth - told the BBC they they had not started any projects, but some had received a bit of money to set up town boards.