Comments on: West Ham spiral out of control – now Sheffield United PLAYERS plan to sue!

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:56:25 +0000

If that’s the case re players on loan then the rule has been changed since. The only reason the prem (said they) didn’t take action against Sheff U was that the agreement was not found in writing. Teams are obliged to play full strength teams, or at least not to field deliberately weakened teams – the problem is that it is difficult to define as it is often down to opinion.

By: dan

dan — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:16:19 +0000

theres no rules saying you have to play a full strength side and the rule is when a player is on loan from 1 PL club to another the aformentioned player doesnt play against the parent club.
If sheff u had won more games they wouldnt hav gon down

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:54:40 +0000

Yes Daniel, West Ham broke the rules. And they admitted it. And were punished with a record fine of £5.5million. Liverpool broke the rules in fielding an understrength team against Fulham; Sheff Utd did the same on more than one occassion; Man Utd broke the same third party rule as West Ham by preventing Howard from playing for Everton against them; and guess what, so did Sheff Utd who admitted preventing Kabba from playing for Watford against them, resulting in a rare three points. Whereas Tevez (who statistically West Ham were better off without) was potentially open to third party interference, Kabba was actually subject to third party influence. Glass houses and stones come to mind.

By: Daniel Palmer

Daniel Palmer — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:24:16 +0000

The fact is wet sham cheated ,and when that happens you have to live with the consequences whenever this happens in cup competions the offending club whatever the sport ,football , criket ,rugby are disqualified

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:09:44 +0000

The world’s gone mad! If the claim and judgement were not ludicrous enough (West Ham got more points per game WITHOUT Tevez than when he played), this last move defies all logic. The players’ claim only has legs if Sheff Utd get the money. If they do get the cash that ‘Compo’ McCabe reckons they’d have got if the team were good enough to stay up, then THAT’S where the players would have got their bonuses from, not West Ham. You can’t have your cake, eat it, and nick someone else’s! (Although nothing would surprise me now!)

By: Ady

Ady — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:20:16 +0000

What are you lot doing at this rate there will never be any football played it will all be in the court of law. Will Watford sue about the Reading ghost goal WHY NOT its all going up in smoke if the sheffield lot dont pack this all in they will destroy football all together

By: Dave Hall

Dave Hall — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:15:17 +0000

Have you once heard the board mention they are hard up? No you haven’t so stop copying newspaper crap and write something with some reality behind it.

By: Marleeeen depreciation society

Marleeeen depreciation society — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:43:57 +0000

SHAME ON YOU!!!! we all know that football players are on the poverty line but let’s face it, this lot weren’t good enough to stay up and so went down because of it. Not because of carlos tevez regardless of what some detached welsh lord thinks (not knows) and everyone who knows about the complexities of football knows it. If ANY of those ten players were premiership quality then they would have been snapped up by PROPER premiership clubs just like the cream of some other relegated clubs. This even happened to west ham last time they were relegated. Defoe, Carrick, Joe Cole, Lampard, etc all got bought. I’d also like to point out that even with most of the same team the season after demotion, Sheffield utd didn’t exactly set the championship alight.

By: Dave Hall

Dave Hall — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:39:14 +0000

Club crumbling? You on prozac or something, what a drama queen. You think because of all what’s going on is going top make West Ham crumble, don’t think so mate.