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By Dan Roan<\/span>
BBC Sports News Correspondent<\/span><\/span> \"Arsenal Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith sold her shares to American Stan Kroenke<\/span> <\/p>\n

Former Arsenal director Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith has called for the club’s entire board to be sacked.<\/p>\n

Bracewell-Smith, who was axed as a director in 2009, is not happy with the way the club is being run.<\/p>\n

On her Twitter<\/a> account, she wrote: “I agree that current board should all go.<\/p>\n

“They are passe. Have nothing more to give to the club at all. In time we will need a more dynamic pro-active, younger board, and a good directional leadership.”<\/p>\n

Bracewell-Smith made \u00a3123m selling her 15.9% stake in Arsenal to Stan Kroenke in April, allowing the American billionaire to take control of the club.<\/p>\n

Her stake had come from her husband, Sir Charles, grandson of the club’s former chairman Sir Bracewell Smith.<\/p>\n

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They couldn’t handle a woman with power on the board<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith<\/span><\/div>\n

Asked why she was sacked by the board, Bracewell-Smith wrote: “They couldn’t handle a woman with power on the board. Felt insecure. Male chauvinism.”<\/p>\n

Arsenal’s current board consists of Kroenke, chief executive Ivan Gazidis, chairman Peter Hill-Wood, Ken Friar, Sir Chips Keswick and Lord Harris of Peckham.<\/p>\n

Bracewell-Smith also initially rejected calls from some fans for the return of former vice-chairman David Dein, who was sacked in 2007.<\/p>\n

She claimed Dein was “the root cause of all the troubles at AFC” before backtracking.<\/p>\n

“I stand corrected,” she tweeted on Tuesday. “Dein loves the club and although sometimes personalities fall out his contribution at Arsenal has been immense.”<\/p>\n

Dein left the club after he sold his shares to Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov, who has refused to sell to Kroenke.<\/p>\n

On Monday, BBC Sport revealed that Arsenal’s board were now willing to sell Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona<\/a> if the Spanish giants improved on their initial bid for the midfielder, submitted to Gazidis last week.<\/p>\n

Bracewell-Smith said: “It is obvious he wants to go. You cannot keep a player when his heart is not in it.”<\/p>\n

Both Bracewell-Smith and Dein, who enjoyed a close working relationship with Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, declined to comment when contacted by BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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