Kevin McCabe, the Sheffield United chairman, sees no reason to involve the European Commission in the club's dispute with the Premier League over the Carlos Tevez affair. Such is McCabe's confidence in the British judicial system, he anticipates the matter will be resolved today, with United being reinstated to the Premiership.
His optimism is entirely misplaced. The three-man arbitration panel meeting in London today will not find in favour of Sheffield United. Why? Because the fixture list for next season has already been drawn up and no amount of evidence purporting to a miscarriage of justice is going to alter it.
The panel, led by Lord Justice Ottan, must decide whether the Premier League and a subsequent independent commission were right to allow West Ham to avoid a points deduction, despite misleading League officials and playing the Argentine pair Tevez and Javier Mascherano when they were part-owned by a third party.
West Ham "escaped" with a £5.5m fine. Sheffield United were relegated on the final afternoon of the season. Written evidence, supporting West Ham's claims that Tevez was released by his agent and owner prior to playing in the closing games of the season, has not materialised.
Yet the campaign to see justice done is doomed. Last night it was considered most unlikely that Kia Joorabchian, Tevez's "owner" and agent, would appear as a key witness.
To add another twist to proceedings, the Yorkshire club have also been accused of breaching Premiership rules. Evidence has emerged to suggest they prevented a former player, Steve Kabba, from appearing against them after joining Watford in January. Statements surrounding Kabba's £500,000 transfer were brought to the Premier League's attention on Friday and an investigation has been launched.
Not that this will have any impact on today's proceedings. One glance at the long-anticipated report by Lord Stevens into 362 top-flight transfers in a two-year period will tell you that justice is an alien concept as far as English football is concerned. Over a period of 16 months and at a cost of £1.3m, Stevens found 17 transfers, involving 15 agents, worthy of further investigation.
In other words, despite spending more than a year interviewing managers, players, agents and advisers, trawling through umpteen bank accounts and compiling 100 files in the process, no hard evidence has been uncovered to support the widespread belief that vast sums of money are disappearing into the pockets of the unscrupulous.
Last night, Graeme Souness, one of only two managers named by Stevens' investigative team Quest, threatened legal action against those who have suggested there were "inconsistencies" in the evidence he gave to the inquiry.
Agents Pini Zahavi and Barry Silkman have likewise rejected the findings - an entirely predictable response, though not as predictable as the report itself, which promised to blow the lid off the bung culture only to barely rattle its cage. And Quest call themselves forensic accountants?
Of course, we could be doing Stevens a serious disservice. According to one Sunday newspaper, a further 26 pages of secret evidence from the inquiry has been passed to police and criminal charges are likely to be pressed within two months.
But don't hold your breath. As McCabe and his many supporters are about to discover, the truth is not about to get in the way of a big club playing in the Premiership next season. Or a clever agent filling his boots.
