Manchester_sky_blue
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Contact details here - https://www.ico.org.uk/Global/contact_us i'd ring their call centre in the first instance if I were you, they are pretty helpful.
Do you have an email address i can send it to? if so i will do that right away
@Lesreidpolitics which of the Mitchell brothers would you prefer to be stuck in a lift with and why?
Contact details here - https://www.ico.org.uk/Global/contact_us i'd ring their call centre in the first instance if I were you, they are pretty helpful.
Just sent them an email explaining the situation and also attached mine and the football leagues response. Will be interesting to see the reply
Reid doing a pre-recorded interview today with shane off bbc cov will be broadcast tomorrow morning.
Expect spin like Sisu
this is from 2011 but presumably is still true and applies to the FL:
http://www.fsf.org.uk/latest-news/view/Football-Needs-the-Freedom-of-Information-Act.php
"Currently organisations like the Football Association (FA) are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act as are other sporting bodies such as the English Cricket Board, British Cycling Federation, and British Olympic Association (BOA)."
I think it's because they're not strictly a public body. I sent a couple of FOI requests asking about the groundshare with Cobblers, one to the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (who sent back details of emails from the concerned public) and the Sports Grounds Safety Authority (who sent back details of planned meetings with safety officers/Cobblers/Saints/Police).
If anyone can think of a route where we can find out of any FL comms with SISU, please say!
As usual OSBs questions are the most relevant, for me if someone tweets those, especially the one about player registration, and they dont get asked, it shows what sort of journalist Reid is.
I've not got Twitter, can someone make sure he's asked something along the lines of: "When were players first allowed by the FL to be registered with Holdings? Why was this allowed? Will there be measures to stop a similar situation at this or any other club? Will someone take responsibility for this and offer an apology for the distress this mistake has caused CCFC fans?"
EDIT: never mind. Signed up and did it myself.
how come the fa can't keep to their own rules and regulations
Shmmee , can you elaborate on your comment as to what sort of journalist Reid. For me he is the only local journalist that has bothered to follow this story and is trying to get to seek out the truth, hence speaking to people such as Greg Clarke, do you honestly think a professional journalist needs people to supply him with questions to ask, what would he do otherwise just turn shake Mr Clarkes hand and thank him for his time.
Shmmee , can you elaborate on your comment as to what sort of journalist Reid. For me he is the only local journalist that has bothered to follow this story and is trying to get to seek out the truth, hence speaking to people such as Greg Clarke, do you honestly think a professional journalist needs people to supply him with questions to ask, what would he do otherwise just turn shake Mr Clarkes hand and thank him for his time.
These are all worthy questions but I suspect the stock answer from Greg will be... "The main thing is-is that Coventry City can fulfil their fixture obligation and remain in the league"...
The question that never follows that answer is
Why would refusing a ground share mean Coventry do not fulfil their fixtures.
If SISU as a result of not been allowed to do the ground share threatened to not fulfil their fixtures.
The FL could have told the administrator if that is the case then they can't give the GS to SISU.
The administrator would then need to look at the next best option.
However the FL did not have the stomach for that legal battle.
The question that never follows that answer is
Why would refusing a ground share mean Coventry do not fulfil their fixtures.
If SISU as a result of not been allowed to do the ground share threatened to not fulfil their fixtures.
The FL could have told the administrator if that is the case then they can't give the GS to SISU.
The administrator would then need to look at the next best option.
However the FL did not have the stomach for that legal battle.
Reid joins the SBT hit list. Give the bloke a break.
The administrator's job is to get the best deal for the creditors. It's got fuck all to do with the FL.
That would be illegal, that's why.
Please elaborate....
Several reasons -- the administrator has to satisfy creditors and the bid by Otium was the best. What you seem to actually be suggesting is that the Football League should ignore the rules on liquidation and hand over an entitlement to another party on the basis that they would pay a commercial rent that the preferred bidder will not. So say the council said to Otium its £400,000 to you and to Haskell its £150,000 to you. You believe the FL should say over to you Mr Haskell. Actually on this they have made the correct decision. Landlords are not allowed to dictate who owns a football club. In the same way that the SISU bunch have been trying to force ACL out ACL have blatantly tried to get Haskell in as he satisfied their interests. Both sides are lamentable.
Several reasons -- the administrator has to satisfy creditors and the bid by Otium was the best. What you seem to actually be suggesting is that the Football League should ignore the rules on liquidation and hand over an entitlement to another party on the basis that they would pay a commercial rent that the preferred bidder will not. So say the council said to Otium its £400,000 to you and to Haskell its £150,000 to you. You believe the FL should say over to you Mr Haskell. Actually on this they have made the correct decision. Landlords are not allowed to dictate who owns a football club. In the same way that the SISU bunch have been trying to force ACL out ACL have blatantly tried to get Haskell in as he satisfied their interests. Both sides are lamentable.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that the GS wasn't Mr Appleton's to give away. It isn't an asset owned by the football club, it is a share in the league normally awarded only to those who meet the Football League's rules. It has no cash value.
The FL does have the power to refuse to award the GS to certain bidders. See Portsmouth.
Thats the most sense I've heard for a while....tried to force sisu out and failed..The worrying thing was they were more concerned about the ricoh than the club in trying to achieve it.
It ultimately has to give it to the preferred bidder. The oddity here is the rent dispute but what you are saying is offering it to a bidder that has failed to satisfy creditors of the football club by offering less. On what basis would they be offered the share, because another private company prefers them as they may pay their bills? Oh and Haskell must have offered less than Otium as a pence in the pound for the outstanding debt. How would you justify that?
Haskell would have offered no more than a penny in the £. Somebody genuinely interested in the club would offer more surely?
Were they sealed bids?
Haskell would have offered no more than a penny in the £. Somebody genuinely interested in the club would offer more surely?
Were they sealed bids?
Another opinion presented as fact.
Only Appleton and Haskell should know what he bid. For all you know he could have offered 26p in the pound.
If he offered more than Otium he would have a case, are you saying he offered more?
If you read my post carefully you will realise that I said no one on here knows what he offered.
Are you saying you know for certain that he offered no more than a penny in the pound?
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