[LU] Arbitration isn't about keeping anybody happy

[Lewis, KM (Kevin)]

I know it is pointless trying to guess what might happen here, but I
seriously doubt that Leeds will get all 15 points back.

If we remember why they were applied:-

Firstly (and the official reason) was that it was a condition of getting
the Golden Share back without an agreed CVA, through exceptional
circumstances.  I cannot see the arbitrators overturning that on the
basis that they will feel we should have an extra punishment on top of
the previous 10 points.

Secondly it was a vindictive punishment, upheld by the majority of club
chairmen (in their own self-interest) because they felt we had cheated
on 3 counts.
1.  Going into admin before the end of the season, but after we had
already been relegated anyway.
2.  The way Bates and his cohorts engineered the scenario over the debt,
and whose bids would get accepted.
3.  The lack of an approved CVA.

Now Bates broke no rules, or laws we believe, and only manipulated the
rules in the same way as any other club would have done in the same
situation. But the fact remains that most other football people felt we
pulled a fast one, and the Football League actually changed their rules
because of it.

I could see us being given 5 points back.  This could then, sort of,
create a precedent that a club loses a further 10 points (not 15) if
they come out of Admin by exceptional circumstances.  It should also
satisfy those who felt that the 10 point deduction at the end of last
season was meaningless and 'engineered'.

I guess looking at it dispassionately giving us back a meaningless
number of points would, sort of, cancel out the meaningless ones we were
deducted this time last year.

What a laugh it would be then if we got 5 points back won the last game
and then Forest, Carlisle and Doncaster all failed to win and we stole
2nd spot :-).


 KOT.