Just heard on the radio that their chairman will take the whole thing to the European Commission if the hearing fails in this country.
He thinks they now have a human rights issue due to lack of jobs and reduction in salaries at the club.
You have to admire them for sticking to their guns and I’m not sure how I would feel if we were doing it etc but I think its just silly now
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I don't feel sorry for them really, they had a home game against a shite Wigan and only needed a draw and they lost, simple as that in the end.
All they are doing now is taking their focus off of next season and might well have a bad start to the season.
Exactly. How can they plan for the season ahead whilst this is still dragging on?
No way can they be re-instated as then there would be 21 teams and an odd number meaning 1 team sitting out a fixture each week and will cause chaos at xmas, easter and on the last day of the season.
Unfortunately sheff utd need the backing of the whole Premier League which they will never get. I admire them and good luck to them for sticking to their guns.
I still feel they have cheated there way out of relegation and if we had finished 3rd from bottom i'm not so sure we would just roll over easily!!
The whole world knows by now that West Ham intentionally broke the rules in order to sign 2 players they otherwise could not have signed in time within the transfer window. Those players should have been ineligible to play before the January window and West Ham sought to gain an unfair advantage over Premiership teams.
They cheated.
The whole world knows that justice was not done and the 'punishment' was in effect no punishment whatsoever.
So everyone is bored with it now.
That's no reason for justice not to be done.
Unfortunately sheff utd need the backing of the whole Premier League which they will never get. I admire them and good luck to them for sticking to their guns.[/quote]
Probably right Ledge but after a while you'd have to face facts that the situation is not going to change. The Prem is basically a private club and if they don't want you in it then you ain't getting in so you might as well concentrate on getting back in the Prem via the pitch and not the courts.
I quite agree that the West Ham thing stinks but its done now and the seasonal nature of football means that this sort of injustice, unlike for example a wrong courtroom verdict sending down an innocent man, is very hard to over-turn because of the limited time (about two and a bit months) that there are between seasons.
- they have given the green light to all sorts of cheating now.
How about just swapping the TV money for the next two years?
It's against the Premier League for maladministration.
or if numbers are a problem they could give brighton a bye to the 3rd round and make west scam play from round 1.
We will see next week whether anything happens - I see Sheffield are trying to enlist the help of the agent involved.
I cannot see how they can uphold the status quo but it will be very difficult to swap the teams and West Ham will go mad!
That'd be no good as West ham would win through easily. They could easily ban them and give the team left over from the round 3 draw a bye to round 4. I think they did that the year Man Utd pulled out to play in the world club championships.
The precedent was Bury being kicked out of last years cup, so as it's too late for West ham as the season is over, surely they have to be kicked out of this years?
I think the whole thing resembles the smell from WSS' gusset after a heavy night chasing skirt
Hit them with a heavy docking to start the season with, effectively making top six very tough then see if egg head gets bored and pulls his money out. They will then drop like a stone and justice will have (eventually) been done.
By the way, the bloke who cuts my hair reckons his daughter knows tangoman and he's shitting a brick about the verdict tomorrow. How true that is I don't know.
The decision has been made now and they won't go back. The point about the fixtures is a very important one and you can't just "swap West Ham for Sheffield United" because the fixtures are worked out on a partly logitical basis, ie working out that Sheff Utd and Sheff Weds or Everton and Liverpool are not home on the same day.
So, the fixtures are a very important watermark here because they represent, to a large extent, a "no u-turn" phase because we now have only 42 days until the new season starts.
I agree that West Ham have gotten off very lightly but I would wager a pound to a penny that the Premiership are on rock solid legal ground, morally they are in the wrong but they would have checked in advance that the 3rd bottom side could not come back at them before they let West Ham escape any legal punishment.
IMO, Bryan Robson might be wishing that his chairman would just drop it because how can Sheffield United sign anyone when they are in such limbo? Robson does not know if he has 11 million or 30 million to spend or if he is looking for Prem players or CCC players.
The only thing I hope is that Tevez leaves the Spammers and they implode next season and get relegated, that would be true justice.
Very easy to swap the teams around given how both Sheffield United and West Ham's fixtures seem to have been arranged.
After a season commences, player Fred Bloggs plays a competitive match for his club in say August, and then before the transfer window closes is permanently transferred to another club, for whom he plays in a competitive match.
He cannot then be permanently transferred to a third club in the January window and play a competitive match.
And then we have a Charlton scenario:
James Walker signs a 1 year contract with Charlton but is loaned to Bristol Rovers and plays a number of competitive matches.
He returns to The Valley and without playing a competitive match is loaned to Leyton Orient where he plays a number of competitive matches.
Now here clearly Walker's registration is held at 3 different clubs in the same season but only owned by the one club, Charlton.
If Walker had played a competitive match for Charlton before his loan to Bristol Rovers, would he have been allowed to appear for Orient?
Totally agree. I would go further in that there have been so many cock ups here by the authories
1. the failure to establish the truth of these contracts at the time the players were signed. They were aware of the possibility given West Ham's enquiries about such contracts at the time. It was common practice for such contracts to exist in South America and widely reported here that both players were signed on that basis.
2. the failure to deal expeditiously once the contracts were disclosed
3. the behind the scenes "deal" offered to West Ham
4. the deal to allow Tevez to play on based upon a one sided contract cancellation of a two sided contract
Now we have the possibiliy that they will both take the easy route out and let Sheff U back in and also take the outrageous decision to have a two up promotion next season.