Geoff Horsfield has admitted that he is one of the 20 former and current Sheffield United players seeking to sue West Ham United for compensation.
Horsfield - who failed to play a single game for the Blades during their relegation season as he spent the year on loan at Leeds and Leicester playing in the Championship - made just one league start at Bramall Lane during his 32 months at the club.Yet despite having not made a top flight start since featuring for West Brom in their 6-1 defeat at Fulham back in February 2006, the 35-year-old veteran - currently featuring for Lincoln in League Two, for whom he has scored just one goal all season - feels he has a valid claim for earnings lost as a Premier League player.
"There are no personal grudges against West Ham from any of the Sheffield United players involved, myself included," he whined. "But the fact is we lost considerable sums of money as a result of being relegated to the Championship because our wages dropped as a consequence.
"It is money we feel has been taken away from us and, more importantly, our families. It is nothing personal or about being bitter, but about justice."
Didn't know Horsfield played for Sheffield United?
You could be forgiven - here's how he spent his two-and-a-half years contract with the Yorkshire club:
May 2006: Joined Sheffield United from (relegated) West Brom for £1.2million.
August 2006: Joined Leeds on a five-month loan deal. Scored twice in 15 games. Returned to Yorkshire for three weeks (no games).
January 2007: Joined Leicester on loan for the rest of the 06/07 campaign. Scored twice in 13 games whilst the Blades were being relegated from the Premier League.
May 2007: Returned to Bramall Lane after an unsuccessful spell with the Foxes. Made two League Cup appearances for the Blades (scoring once) in August - his last for the club.
January 2008: Joined Scunthorpe on a three-month loan deal. Failed to score in 12 appearances.
April 2008: Returned to Sheffield United but never played for the Blades again.
January 2009: Joined Lincoln on a free transfer.
Ponce watch - who's on board the Sheffield United gravy train
Fulham: Premier League ponces who are claiming £700,000 in lost league placings prize money despite it being worth just £450,000 in the season in question (£700k is the equivalent for 2008/09).
Neil Warnock: Crystal Palace manager and fantasist whose current side have little chance of being promoted to the Premier League after an indifferent season.
Phil Jagielka: Everton defender who has coined it in since leaving Bramall Lane.
Michael Tonge: Stoke City reserve player.
Geoff Horsfield: second-rate striker who never featured for Sheffield United in the Premier League.
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