Complex sentence: Handed complete managerial control following Mudie's resignation in May 1967, Matthews couldn't guide the club to success-instead, Port Vale were fined £4,000 in February/March 1968 and expelled from the Football League for financial irregularities.
Split into simpler sentences: Handed complete managerial control following Mudie's resignation in May 1967, Matthews couldn't guide "the Vale" to glory. Rather the opposite, as the club were fined £4,000 in February/March 1968 and expelled from the Football League for financial irregularities.