Will Justice Be Served?
It's a crucial day for all Leeds fans as the club goes before an independent tribunal in its efforts to get the fifteen point deduction levied against the club at the beginning of the season overturned. Millwall have called for a delay in the tribunal, all the other clubs are against, everyone hates us but we don't care.If we were to get a favorable result today, we'd immediately jump from 67 to 82 points and Swansea's celebrations over the weekend will seem premature.
Will justice be served? We'll see.
posted by gatorbob @ 12:44 PM
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FINGERS CROSSED!!!!
Cheers, mate. It looks as if we'll have to wait until at least tomorrow for the findings of the tribunal. Here's a good piece from Auntie Beeb on the issue:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/leeds_united/7344505.stm
This is a bit funny. I was just dialing up the Yorkshire Evening Post site for the latest on the tribunal and there was a headline that read:
"Smith to complete United move."
Of course, I thought, "Good old Smiffy - he's coming back to the Elland. All is forgiven. Good man!"
Then I opened up the article and it informed me that a 19 year old from Dundee United named KEVIN Smith had just signed. (sigh)
Not Good
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=526520&cc=5901
Oh, that's not the half of it. Just about every club boss - even those in the lower reaches who don't have much of a stake in the promotion battle such as Millwall - have weighed in against our appeal. What gives? You know that they'd all be doing the same if the same thing happened to them. I understand the points deduction in the case of, say, match-fixing, but I've never understood it in regard to clubs that go into administration.
In any case, "no likes us - we don't care!"
The ten point deduction for going into administration has been there and Leeds got that reduction at the end of last season. It was a sneaky way of doing it by Leeds. When they were pretty much assured of going down they then went into administration and the ten points didn't matter.
My question is why did they have a further 15 points taken away the following season? A 25 point reduction is rather steep.
Sky Sports said that Luton and Bournemouth are nervous about the same thing happening to them next season. I think they are on Leeds' side.
Believe it or not, the club went into administration on two separate occasions, once sneakily at the end of last season and then again at the end of the summer when there was a firesale of club assets that Ken Bates benefited from by snatching up shares for pennies on the pound.
I understand the League's reasoning for the additional fifteen point deduction, but I don't agree with it. It's a similar issue to the "red card plus penalty" decision; it's too punitive and ruins the whole spectacle. What do they want in the end - to have historical clubs like LUFC, Luton and Bournemouth go bust? Honestly!
Latest news is that the tribunual is expected to go into Monday and then a ruling could be delayed for THREE WEEKS!! After the season has ended!!
I smell a conspiracy coming out of Wales.
Here's the latest:
http://football365.com/story/0,17033,8652_3440677,00.html
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