AFC Wimbledon? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/6496543.stm
IMHO, and I am deliberately steering clear of the finer details, Bates' one joy left (Other than a £15M+ Profit selling us) would be to 'put one over' the FL. He's a wily old bugger who won't have spent half the season building up a case, no doubt with top lawyers, for nothing. My biggest bugbear over the whole farce was the unheralded appeal method, the standard practice (I don't know if it's a FL rule/law (I'll try and check though)) was and always has been independent arbitration, and I agree with Rick that I suspect 5 points will be coming our way. BUT ... who knows! If the FL thought they would win in a court of law they would surely have followed it through to that end, the offer of arbitration smacks to me of them realising that KB does actually have something in the writ and may be their easy way out of the whole sorry affair. > Altrincham were deducted 18 points and won them back a couple of seasons > ago after the end of the season > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 4:23 PM > To: Rick Duniec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LU] No Points Back > > We agree that this is probably almost an irrelevant argument insofar as > the legal claim to get points back goes, but surely the complaint about > 'things changing throughout the season' is actually the points changing, > not a rule being introduced. Their argument being that they started off > with a league table (with leeds rooted to the bottom on -15) and it would > be unfair to give Leeds back any points as it changes the points > differential as it was at the start of the season. > > That argument is tosh because the points differentials are sadly often > changed after the start of the season. > > They would not be complaining, for example, if Leeds were to be deducted > their 15 points now would they, even though it would change the table? > Why? Because it would be in their favour. > > There is a precident for the points totals for teams being changed during > the course of a season. It is allowed and has been done, they just dont > like someone being given points (back). > > Tough! > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> The rule that brought about their loss of points was in place at the >> start >> of the season so it is not the result of any change during the season. >> The change to that rule which was made after LU went into administration >> was >> not applied retrospectively to Leeds or Boston. There are further >> changes >> to >> this rule in the pipeline and again there is no expectation of it being >> applied retrospectively. Returning points to Leeds would, on the other >> hand, >> be a change after the start of the season. It still doesn't give any >> weight >> to their argument that it changes anything in terms of points won and >> lost >> so I find it difficult to believe that the lawyers will waste much time >> on >> that particular point. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list >> administrators >> accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. >> Leedslist mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist >> DELETE THE FOOTERS WHEN REPLYING YOU LAZY SODS!!!! >> DELETE THE FOOTERS WHEN REPLYING YOU LAZY SODS!!!! >> >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators > accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. > Leedslist mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > DELETE THE FOOTERS WHEN REPLYING YOU LAZY SODS!!!! > DELETE THE FOOTERS WHEN REPLYING YOU LAZY SODS!!!! > > > _______________________________________________ > the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators > accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. > Leedslist mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist > DELETE THE FOOTERS WHEN REPLYING YOU LAZY SODS!!!! > DELETE THE FOOTERS WHEN REPLYING YOU LAZY SODS!!!! > > _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist DELETE THE FOOTERS WHEN REPLYING YOU LAZY SODS!!!! DELETE THE FOOTERS WHEN REPLYING YOU LAZY SODS!!!!
