esmer wrote: If they did why would he spend all that time and money on solicitors (assuming he pays them) for nothing. The point is the FL should have refused the share on the basis he wasn't prepared to conform to their requirements, which they knew he wasn't.
A calculated gamble that the Football League might cave into him rather than risk a club being liquidated maybe?
And I still feel that by not granting the share, then they have technically refused it.