Whelan: West Ham Ruling Sets Dangerous Precedent
April 28, 2007
With West Ham escaping a points deduction following the Tevezcherano transfer charges, Wigan chairman Dave Whelan is less than pleased,
“The Premier League have now established that no one can ever be docked points unless a club goes into receivership and then it’s an automatic ten-point deduction,” Whelan told the Times.
“The rules are the rules and if this breach doesn’t merit the docking of points, then let’s make it clear - nothing does.
“That’s fine by me. Let everyone be treated the same, I say. A precedent has been set.”
As bitter a “fine by me” as you’ll ever find. Conspiracy theorists will argue that West Ham, as a club from a major market (London) and with greater financial clout for the near future, are far more valuable to the Premiership than a club like Wigan. A points deduction would have cost the Hammers their status in the top flight, so they got away with an incredibly expensive slap on the wrist.
But Whelan’s right about precedent and, while we doubt that smaller clubs will risk violating transfer rules just because West Ham appear to have got off lightly, clubs who can happily eat a humongous fine like Chelsea - already in the news previously for dodgy transfer conduct - may see it as another loophole ripe for leaping through.
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Fuck him he can sit at home and recognise why we are on a different level to his crap excuse for a club.
The ruling stinks in so many ways. The ‘crime’ was worse than I ever imagined and the penalty was superficial. It’s a parking ticket to someone of Magnussen’s resources.
Ahh, Tevez you are such a refreshing change to other Hammers. Oh hang on no you aren’t you have no soul and the footballing world is currently sat praying that you get the justice of relegation sent to you in the most awful way.
I didn’t think it was possible to hate West Ham any more than I already do, but I now find myself at a new low where they are concerned.
[quote comment=”38251″]Fuck him he can sit at home and recognise why we are on a different level to his crap excuse for a club.[/quote]
lol, yeah, litterally soon to be on a different level. you’s being heading for the one below wigan - the championship!
didn’t think that one thru did you sparky?
He’s only carping because his team are fourth from bottom. Hand on heart would any neutral prefer a Premiership without West Ham or a Premiership without Wigan?
Premiership without Wigan! better pies and one less trip to london
i meant west ham… mental slip rather than a lack of geographical knowledge
[quote comment=”38363″]He’s only carping because his team are fourth from bottom. Hand on heart would any neutral prefer a Premiership without West Ham or a Premiership without Wigan?[/quote]
egghead manglebert can take his biscuits and his money and his shitty sacking of alan pardew and ‘do a leeds’. tosser. who really gives one one way or the other anyway. i’m a neutral, don’t support either, but wigan as a club have more honour than west ham, and i’m sick of seeing all those overpaid disgusting excuses for preofesionals ponce around, and then listen to wes ham fans proclaim it’ll be a dark day for all prem fans if they go down. wise up, not enough points? nt good enough then. its nothing more than you’s deserved the day pardew was sacked. it was a cert to happen.
tevez is a wee legend tho.