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This is turning into a farce... exactly sums up Ken Bates really. What a cunt.

From various papers this morning:

See Neil Warnock going to sue aswell....

West Ham have set themselves up for this though.  Played with fire and are now getting burned.  Their desire to sell-up, with the Iceland gang in financial problems (having creditors trying to take them to court back in Iceland) means they need to tidy up any potential liabilities - so everyone will now wade in knowing they will settle to get the sale of the club progressed.

The Premier league made this mess by fudging West Ham's punishment in the first place.

Where is the demarcation of who can sue and who can't? Can the Sheffield pie maker take action because he sold less pies when they were in the Championship than in the Prem?

Probably, it's the same logic as Warnock, Bates and the Sheffield United players are using, I can see this getting messy.

Then you've got the shirt manufacturers and sponsors...

Isn't the players / managers claim directly related to them being relegated though? In that their contracts said, in the Premiership you'll get £xxK and in the Championship £xK and they want the money they lost as a result. Sounds the same with regards the Leeds players.

I think the mistake West Ham have made is by not making sure that the single agreement with Sheff Utd was the end of it and would cover everything, with anyone else claiming their money from Sheff Utd. As they've paid up to Sheff Utd I can see it being very difficult for them to argue against the other claims.

The real guilty party is the Premier League though for not taking the correct action at the time.

I listened to Talk Sport on the way to the match last night and fans on all sides were making valid points.

It, however all boils down to one thing Tevez wasnt properly registered (i know about the admin blah blah).

As always its one rule for Premier League and one rule for everyone else.

We have seen teams get kicked out the FA Cup and docked points in the League and Blue Square.

As for West Ham fans working out how many points they got with Tevez playing...thats a joke, i am sure that when we got bombed down the league two divisions we could of come up with weird and wonderful excuses.

The Premier League should take the shame fairly on the chin and should of acted at the time.

I'm still confused as to exactly what they did wrong at the end of the day, but if Tevez wasn't registered correctly then aren't the rules pretty clear - all games he played in are void and go down as 3-0 losses or something?

I thought you'd be blaming Phil Smith ?

Are fans gonna sue because it would have cost them less money to get a train to West Ham than it did to Sheffield?

Just shows what footballs turning into.

Ken Bates is a cunt.

Obviously. But it is the PL's fault though - they opened the door to this by bottling the initial decision as jonny said. And this whole thing could open a real can of worms - who's going to be the first club to sue because they got relegated by a dodgy refereeing decision?

I'm going to sue ken bates for being a cunt.  a beardy cunt at that

And you will win.

get in.  I'm rich!

The precedent you set may mean that you don't keep hold of your money for long.

Surely we could all get together on a class action against Bates for the pain and mental stress he caused us with malice aforethought by:
a) Nicking not one but two managers off us
b) Forever ruining Christmas by forcing us to be reminded of him every time we see a department store Santa
c) Being a beardy cunt

I'm not beardy

Fuck me, its spread to another thread. Why can't I be allowed to think Smith is shit and Brezovan is better?

Its not as if its the wildest view of a player, I've seen some people commenting that Ifil is half decent.

Now he's starting on the Beast!! Let's stone him to death!!!

You'll have to do the same to Wilson as he has obviously come to the same conclusion at long last.

KILL THE INFIDEL!

I hope Ken Bates dies.

And soon....

d) Sitting on the panel that relegated us two divisions in 1990, the hypocritical beardy cunt.

I didn't want Sheffield Utd. to be relgated, it caused me massed of mental anguish and pain!  Do I have a case to sue?

Now Fulham are trying to make a claim...

Actually, Fulham are probably the remaining party with the best case it's effectively exactly the same case that West Ham just paid out to Sheffield United on- albeit for a much smaller amount.

But Fulham didn't get relegated did they?

can we sue them for anything?

Sure, let's sue Bates for just plain being a beardy santa cunt.

No, but they lost out on prize money for Premiership placings, which equates to about 500k. I suspect they'll get that and no more.

Certainly got a tighter case than Bates!