- Jul 28, 2004
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Once again, what action does anybody think can be taken against clubs, owners, boards, whatever, just for releasing statements that they intended to do something but then never actually doing it?
Granted I was not great at lawyering which is why after a more turvy than topsy stab at making a career of it throughout my twenties I threw in the towel and changed profession before I hit thirty, but I remember enough to know that the premier league/ FA are no way risking throwing punishments at these clubs or chairmen only to become embroiled in what would be a very expensive legal battle that would have a high chance of failure (as no way will any club take it lying when). Same goes for UEFA. That’s before considering the further damage to the game that type of civil war will cause.
It’s a nice thought, but pursuing punitive action requires the will to risk losing at great expense. Does anybody think that anyone is taking that risk?
They’ll just all be relieved that the thing fell apart before the press started wondering why they’d still not actually taken any action.
As for our statement, it’s really just a vanilla statement where he says he felt he was doing the right thing but because of the angst it has caused, has decided not to. I’m not sure what people wanted, we’ve got our way, it’s not happening, we should just be happy that we can just focus on supporting our local boy hopefully getting off to a winning start tomorrow without the distraction of all this shit and constant ‘north London blues’ comments from the commentators and pundits.
Granted I was not great at lawyering which is why after a more turvy than topsy stab at making a career of it throughout my twenties I threw in the towel and changed profession before I hit thirty, but I remember enough to know that the premier league/ FA are no way risking throwing punishments at these clubs or chairmen only to become embroiled in what would be a very expensive legal battle that would have a high chance of failure (as no way will any club take it lying when). Same goes for UEFA. That’s before considering the further damage to the game that type of civil war will cause.
It’s a nice thought, but pursuing punitive action requires the will to risk losing at great expense. Does anybody think that anyone is taking that risk?
They’ll just all be relieved that the thing fell apart before the press started wondering why they’d still not actually taken any action.
As for our statement, it’s really just a vanilla statement where he says he felt he was doing the right thing but because of the angst it has caused, has decided not to. I’m not sure what people wanted, we’ve got our way, it’s not happening, we should just be happy that we can just focus on supporting our local boy hopefully getting off to a winning start tomorrow without the distraction of all this shit and constant ‘north London blues’ comments from the commentators and pundits.