Between these two scenarios... 1. Some dispute over a players ownership who scores goals for a club. Another club gets relegated because of ONE players actions (or so argued in court successfully). Millions and millions awarded in compensation on a what if situation. Crazy really. 2. A player from an oppossing club seriously injures (nearly kills) one of our clubs players who happens to be on of the the clubs most expensive signings @ £1.2 million. Our club is then not able to gain access to the possibility of the play offs / automatic promotion after losing such an influential player who was probably on course to be the top scorer this season. _____________ Only difference I can see is that scenario 2 is more serious in terms of possible criminal activity (assault). Now I understand that making the play offs or automatic promotion may have been unlikely but so was the scenario of the said club in scenario 1 of staying in that division should the opposing club have bought an equally talented striker who may have also scored goals and sent them down???? I would pursue this all the way through the courts like Sheff Utd did against West Ham, after all the actions of ONE player were in question in both scenarios. So why should Barnsley not be awarded a similar sum of compensation for the possible lost revenue that we could have should Hume have scored the goals to take us into the premier league??? It's all crazy but so was sheff utds case!
I've been trying to argue the same. A big assumption has been made that whoever would have played instead of Tevez wouldn't have scored as many goals and that West Ham wouldn't have accrued as many points. Who are they Mystic Meg? Tevez only scored 7 goals in 19 League games that season. Hardly a tally that couldn't have at least been matched by a replacement. It was right to punish West Ham for using a player they shouldn't but ridiculous that Sheff U should receive anything.
Plus should he not have scored those goals, I could never understand how it just had an impact on Sheff Utd?? What about the other 2 clubs who were relegated. West Ham getting dragged back into the relegation battle COULD HAVE given the players of the other 2 clubs more of a hunger to stay in the division and alter their results. The season could have ended with West Ham and Sheff Utd getting relegated... It's whole thing about it only making a difference to Sheff Utd that bothers me. So I think we are equally entitled to say that with our most expensive signings goals this season we would have been promoted giving no regards as the the performance of other clubs around us as with the Sheff Utd case. I demand that Sheff Utd hand over all the cash from their successful legal settlement to us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
