cheshiregreen":hhmgjmnd said:
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Bermudian Green":f0txoqnw said:Quite. And our chairman is saying what exactly?
Accrington, Oxford, Pompey, Wimbledon and Argyle - and I am sure their are other public pronouncements that I have missed?HC Green":n2mm596e said:Not much room for negotiation based on this statement, just need another 7 clubs to take Argyle's position and the proposal won't proceed.
Your faith in the people who run football is endearingBiggs":tsguxmxv said:Surely NO-ONE will support it though...? It's just so wishy-washy, ill-thought out and unnecessary that I can't see any club reacting positively.
IJN":2f2orcig said:Bermudian Green":2f2orcig said:Quite. And our chairman is saying what exactly?
How's that Jerry?
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Mark_Colling":1y815s7m said:Your faith in the people who run football is endearingBiggs":1y815s7m said:Surely NO-ONE will support it though...? It's just so wishy-washy, ill-thought out and unnecessary that I can't see any club reacting positively.
Seriously, someone who ought to know better proposed it :furious: so better safe than sorry; we need to keep the pressure up
Shaun Harvey, chief executive of the Football League, is at the centre of a damning ruling by the regulator Ofcom over "unjust and unfair" broadcasts amounting to "harassment" made by Leeds United's in-house radio station, Yorkshire Radio, while he was the club's chief executive.
It is the latest in a series of adverse rulings about the club's misconduct when Harvey was their chief executive and Ken Bates chairman, from 2005 until Bates sold the club last year.
Harvey resigned from the club....... in July, and in October was selected by the Football League to be its chief executive, to the astonishment of many Leeds supporters.
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A court judgment ... found that Leeds under Bates and Harvey had committed the civil offence of harassment against ( Mr and Mrs )Levi, by the radio broadcasts and derogatory statements published about him in the official matchday programme.
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Giving evidence in court to defend the treatment of the couple, Harvey said he had not considered Mrs Levi's feelings when he instigated the broadcasts, because the "business of running a football club" did not allow him room to do so.
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While Harvey was the Leeds chief executive, he and Bates had a poor relationship with the club's supporters trust, which was constituted according to recognised Supporters Direct principles and grew to have 9,000 members. Yorkshire Radio was found by Ofcom earlier this year to have made "unfair" broadcasts about the trust's chairman, Gary Cooper.
...Harvey was the Leeds chief executive under Bates for seven years, having originally been appointed by the previous owners, including Melvyn Levi. For six of those years – before and after Leeds under Bates and Harvey collapsed into administration in 2007 owing around £35m, including £7m unpaid taxes – the club was owned via an offshore company in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven. Harvey gave evidence to a parliamentary select committee inquiry in 2011 that he did not know who the club's owners were.
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Previously Harvey was chief executive at Bradford City for 10 years, which included the club's promotion to the Premier League in 1999. In 2002 after Bradford's relegation the club collapsed into administration, only narrowly avoiding liquidation, after most of its assets, including parachute payments, the stadium and even players, had effectively been mortgaged.
... Three months later (from 1st July 2013), the Football League, chaired by Greg Clarke, unveiled Harvey as its chief executive, a new position designed to address issues including club ownership, governance and compliance with league rules. The League is thought to have decided Harvey's long experience at clubs, including promotion, relegation and more than one administration, made him suitably experienced to lead the league itself in its 125th year. :doh:
... Gary Cooper (of Leeds Supporters Trust) said. "I find it astonishing that the Football League decided Shaun Harvey is the best person they could find for a position of such authority."
Asked for his reaction, Harvey did not apologise to Melvyn and Carole Levi or express any contrition. He said the ruling concerned events that occurred in 2010 ....