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Mort · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 2:30 pm Post subject: Sky Sports News

Live at ER and in London - will get the news first

Pat and I are in the chatroom if anyone wants to join us - LIVE!

wewantourdarbyback · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 2:57 pm Post subject:

Can't get in there as usual, me and Boxy are in VLR

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NE1 · Neither Shallow Nor Sexist Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 1610

BASTARDS!!!!

Benlufc · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject:

Personally i think these reasons are not good enough.

3 reasons for us not being accepted (from sky sports)

1. Document accepting 15 points.

From LUFC

We did accept the imposed condition of a 15-point penalty subject to an appeal to Member clubs. As at the 3rd August 2007 we had no option but to do so. If we had not the club would have been lost forever which was far too big a price for anyone to pay. It is galling therefore that we are criticised for the delay in bringing the appeal when it was delays by the Football League that effectively backed us into this corner in the first place.

We were backed into a corner and had to accept

2. Un-fairness on other clubs

Pettyest excuse ever. Not a justified excuse. we went into this for justification on the 15 points its us and the football leauge not the rest of the teams going for promotion aswell.

3. Time taken to reach arbitration.

From LUFC

The panel were critical of the length of time taken by Leeds United in bringing this action to have the 15-point decision overturned. We feel this finding is unjust as the club sought to oppose the imposition of the penalty from the 30th August 2007 onwards.

The football leauge dragged its heals and we take the rap for it. Thus another unfair reason.

Ben Tomenson

NE1 · Neither Shallow Nor Sexist Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 1610

see my above comment

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HarryofOz · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject:

I've been searching everywhere and I still can't find an article on the Net in which the reasons for the decision are given. The only thing I can find is a general comment on the LUFC site, BBC and Sky Sports

raveydavey · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:54 pm Post subject:

Lots of chairmen no doubt thought it would be a good idea to give Ken bates and Leeds United a damn good slap across the face with the imposition of the -15 points.

Lots of those very same chairmen will now be nervously twitching as they see that the Revenue will challenge any CVA and they won't be able to comply with the league rules. The precedent has been set, it will be -15 points now for ANY club that goes into administration on top of the -10 they get already.

As I've said on other threads, they will reap the whirlwind they have sown.

The whole arbitration process has been a farrce from start to finish and anyone who thought we'd ever get a bean out of it must be a hopeless optimist. Lets move on.

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