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Re: West Ham Should Fear The Worst

Matt — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:51:52 -0000

How dare you question the colour of my blood! I demand pistols at dawn! Am I right in thinking this isn't about rule u18, but about whether an agreement, verbal or written, was put in place by whu after we had our wrists smacked? Let's be honest, it's just a witch hunt. (So if duxbury weighs the same as a duck, BURN HIM!) nobody really cares, there's probably only 5 people in the entire world, who because of a sense of injustice, feel the need to keep banging on about it. Unfortunately, they happen to be a club chairman, a politician, a 2 bob actor, and the (wealthy) owners of 2 law firms. Maybe we could hire someone to take them all for a little drive?

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patrick — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:00:51 -0000

first off it wasn't a gentleman's agreement, it was on BOTH Watford and SUFC's web sites. just look here http://www.watfordfc.com/pa... or here http://soccerlens.com/did-s...

and secondly even if it was a gentleman's agreement, isn't that the same damn thing that you want to punish west ham on???

and just cause Man U does it doesn't make it right. right?

sort out the logic PLEASE.

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Just — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:41:12 -0000

What a total idiot.....People forget Sheffield United only achieved 36 points....They deserved to go down for that alone.......

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Nate — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:16:23 -0000

"Internet" is capitalized

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Weston — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:06:04 -0000

Really? Well then, Peter...welcome to the internet...

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Trevor Nonce — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:38:05 -0000

I'm a Sheffield Utd fan, I think were screwed! We blantly tried to get West Ham to pay us for being rubbish. Everyone knows it. Only proving it will be one word against another. So we may get away with it once again! Which would be nice. Up the Blades!

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peterthomasoleary — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:45:04 -0000

you can go on for ever with the old gentlemans agreement that we had concerning kabba. man utd with tim howard and everton, these verbal agreements between clubs/ managers happen all the time.

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Peter — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:39:42 -0000

Sorry... this has to be one of the worse written articles i have ever read.

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storm — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:02:13 -0000

Thank fuk for this Phil guy, the only non-biast opionion in all those comments!

For the record, the new Icalandic board have done nothing wrong, the only thing they have done in this case is put there hands up about Tevez (this is the reason WHU were only fined, does anyone here no anything about court judgements. Have u never seen a pido get off 'lighter' because he pleaded guilty? Well the same happened with the new board at west ham.)
That said (as a WHU fan, i do think the intinial judgement was to light, and we should have been docked points when we were first found guilty)

This will all be swept under the carpet because the FA no they have fuked up (and they no it), and the sooner it goes away for them, and the rest of football for that matter, the better.

Re: West Ham Should Fear The Worst

Phil — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:46:34 -0000

I feel sorry for the fans of West Ham. They have been run by some proper rogues and they are the ones that will suffer. We at Hull City have had some awful owners in the past who nearly put us out of business.
I think the biggest problem here is the FA and Premier League Board. THEY messed up in the first place and should have thrown WHU from the premier league- as all competitions should have parity and fielding an illegible player should be banned from the competition as the case of Droylesdon and Bury in the most recent FA Cup.
That said I feel strongly that on ce the original decision was made everbody should have stood by it. Sheff Utd should not get anything from WHU. They were rubbish for the last few games of the season and did not desrve to stay up. It is embarrasing to football in this country that we have McCabe twittering on and on and on about this. They went down because they were the worst TEAM. YES Tevez should not have played- but who is to say that someone else would not have filled his boots amply and the results would have been the same.

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GoonerGlenn — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:33:54 -0000

The original judgement was based on false evidence, of course they can re-open the case. West Ham lied, have been found out by an independent panel and should face the consequences.
Hammers fans need to face facts, the broke the rules, lied to protect their interests and now face financial ruin. Harsh but fair

Re: West Ham Should Fear The Worst

patrick — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:00:21 -0000

frankly its all just absurd.

I really don't care if they are docked, relegated and the youth squad is fielded next year. I'll still support my club.

But BUT, there is a point when all credibility of the FA and PL is thrown out the window. and how Duxbury is still at the club is beyond me.

But seriously, lets dig up some rule U18 violations by about every top club, based on verbal agreements. Its all just a bit much.

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patrick — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:30:40 -0000

umm Steve Kabba... They did break rule u18.

Maybe if the PL, dock WHU points they should sue SUFC. What do you think?

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dave — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:15:40 -0000

I would like to set the record straight among most of you idiots.

The clause in question stated that Carlos Tevez could be sold by MSI at any time during the season.

Now, if anyone thinks for one minute think that what West Ham are going through for this very minor clause (i didn't actually have any effect on football did it?) because they knew they had done something wrong need their head tested.

The premier league and the FA will be so seriously sued by West Ham if they are relegated that they won't be able to exist anymore, ask any serious lawyer, they can't re-open this case again. This will be more a bit of fun for West Ham than anything. I'm not a West Ham supporter either.

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Joe — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:53:24 -0000

"Dock West Ham the 9 points they won using Tevez illegally."

Pathetic.
If West Ham are docked points for game we won with Tevez, surely game we lost with Tevez should also be nil pointers.
Sheff Utd beat us 3-0 with Tevez, if we were such a 1 man team, why couldn't Tevez Utd beat them?
Sheff Utd tried to throw the last game of the season and were punished for it. They also sold Steve Kabba to Watford and instructed him not to play in the fixture between the two clubs, a game which Sheff Utd won 1-0. If anyone deserved to be on the end of this 'injustice' it's Sheff Utd.

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Laurence — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:33:39 -0000

I have been a West Ham Fan for years and I don't have a good feeling about this. Unfortunately this situation is a symptom of what football has become. I don't think West Ham can win this one. The Premier League has a lot to answer for - most of all for allowing years of out-of-control spending in which only clubs with multi-billionaire owners can afford to put a champion team together. At the time of the acquisition of Tevez and Mascherano, under Terry Brown, there would have no way the Hammers could have paid for players of their calibre. So they negotiated a contract which is quite common in other parts of the world. This s League that is definitely in need of some parity by-laws. A salary cap would be a start. The failings of the Premier League is another debate, however. The fact is West Ham did an illegal act for which they were fined. Although their website suggests confidence, my gut tells me that they will be scapegoated and hence condemned to to a period in the football wilderness - which is a shame for football, academy football and, above all, their long-suffering supporters.

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Chris_Walker — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:20:19 -0000

meh, none too bothered Dave, my mate at works a hammer and they are pretty much his words. I dont think spurs try to invent a rivallry with you mate and i certainly cant see evidence of that otherwise he'd be calling you a poxy little club or something but i will let you argue with paul on that, im a blade - dont give two hoots about the cockney and the yids having a handbags at dawn

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shame — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:10:44 -0000

What a poor article, written purely to get attention. Well you got that but people think you are an idiot. Happy now?

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peterthomasoleary — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:04:09 -0000

hahaha, put the boot on the other foot? imagine if sheffield united played a player who was inneligable and managed to scrape out of the relegation scrap and west ham being relegated. would you think a £5.5 million fine would be a fair punishment considering the financial gain for staying up?. sheff utd playing like donkeys v wigan, very true but not against any rules. liverpool playing a reserve team at fulham, very true but once again not really against any rules. playing a player who is ineligable is.

Re: West Ham Should Fear The Worst

Chris_Walker — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:59:59 -0000

well you never know Matt, id be more concerned about the faxt it seems all your players wll leave followed by Zola, personally id rather see crap teams who hang on year in year out like Fulham go down for all Roy Hodgsons attractive football principles theyre turning into another Coventry, Southampton and the list goes on

Re: West Ham Should Fear The Worst

peterthomasoleary — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:59:45 -0000

the fella is the most unbiased football fan ive ever listened to.
Reckon he just wants to see a bit of fairness in football.

Re: West Ham Should Fear The Worst

Matt — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:55:31 -0000

I'm a west ham fan, I think were screwed! We blantly lied. Everyone knows it. Only proving it will be one word against another. So we may get away with it once again! Which would be nice. Up the hammers!

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peterthomasoleary — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:52:58 -0000

agree with everything you say chris walker. sheffield united shouldnt recieve any financial gain in my eyes. like you say if you break rules and field inneligable players the result is always being thrown out, point deduction would have been the right thing. as for sheffield united, they could have stayed up themselves by winning the games and getting the points needed, at the end of the day i dont think sheff utd were good enough to stay up. just imagine if man utd needed to win against west ham on the final game of the season to win the title and lost to a tevez goal? could you imagine the uproar that would have caused? . an intersting thing that came about at the end of the season when tevez was going to man utd, west ham i believe were argueing that they should be recieveing payment for tevez, joorabchin refused, disagreeing stateing he had all documents proveing west ham never owned him and any money would be going to him. he stated he would take west ham to court over the matter and would provide evidence in his documents and send them to the fa..... then he agreed to drop the whole case against west ham and amazingly now is on the payroll at upton park!!! id love to see an end to the whole thing as i feel if not it could drag on for years but to be honest west ham arnt to blame its the fa at fault.

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steve — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:51:05 -0000

Dear oh dear.........if it wasn't such a ridiculous piece I might be worried lol. WQho writes this sensationalist stuff.

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Chris_Walker — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:44:58 -0000

I think the fact he called west ham a great club would say he isnt biased against West Ham, im not gonna argue he might have gone on a rant though.