CyberRose said:
Makes no difference - it's Watford in the wrong, not us!
And they seem to have decided to take an awful long time for something the Premier League (and West Ham and their merry bunch of supporters) said would be thrown out, and that Sheff Utd didn't have a leg to stand on...
If the arbitration panel decided in our favour, and the Premier League decided to relegate West Ham (they couldn't just deduct two points because everybody would know why and it would make a complete mockery out of the Premier League)...would you accept that it was fair?
Uh... the longer time they take, the less likely it means that you bunch of ferret-molesting bastards will get any chance of being resintated.
Let's not forget, this arbitration panel can only decide if the original process was done correctly. They CANNOT, as I keep outlining, reissue penalties.
So, that being, hopefully, at last settling into the thick exteriors of the brains of many people posting on this thread, let's look into the possibilities.
IF you were somehow to get the arbitration panel to decide that the *process8 was wrong, *then* you could demand a re-commission.
That would take a few weeks longer. That would see us into late july.
Nah.
They won't let it carry on that long. The season's fixtures have been decided. Pre-season friendlies are getting underway.
If they were going to rule "against" (and I say against in inverted commas as this particular hearing has notihing to do with us) us, even from now, they would need a good month to sort everything out, so they would be trying to rush it through as soon as possible.
All this 'end of the month' stuff makes me even mroe confident than I already was tjat you lot will be playing in the championship next saeason.