West Ham are to take their case to the High Court next week in the latest attempt to overturn the decision to allow Sheffield United to sue for damages in the wake of their relegation from the Premier League two season ago.
United's latest visit to the courts comes as an attempt to prevent the Blades from taking out an injunction which in turn would prevent West Ham from taking their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland.Sheffield United claim that West Ham have no means of recourse given that the FA do not recognise the CAS or their ability to arbitrate in such matters.
However both FIFA and UEFA, the games rulings bodies DO recognise the CAS, a point that the Hammers will make in their submission.
Talking about the case earlier this week, chief hypocrite and Chairman of Sheffield United Kevin McCabe said:
"we are determined not to be pushed aside over this sporting injustice. They [Premier League] are under-managed. They hide behind setting up an independent panel to penalise a club that's breached the rules and believe that alleviates their job to govern the game.
"We've got to accept the commerciality and business that's attached to football now, but it should never overtake sport itself, and that's where governance has got to be improved.
"We really need to get a restructure of the governance of the FA Premier League to stop what happened to us ever happening again."
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