Morgan Denies claim

[silverfox]

Chris Morgan, the Sheffield United captain, has denied that the club’s players have met to discuss the possibility of launching individual claims against West Ham United. An independent arbitration panel ruled in favour of Sheffield United last week in their claim for compensation from West Ham over the Carlos Tévez affair.

The panel has yet to determine the size of the payout, but Sheffield United are claiming in excess of £30 million from the London club for being relegated from the Barclays Premier League on the final day of the 2006-07 season.

After Sheffield United’s 2-1 Coca-Cola Championship win over Watford on Saturday, Morgan said: “There’s been no meeting that I’m aware of that’s taken place with any players this week. We’ve always said as players we can’t get involved in what goes on at that side, that’s down to the chairman and chief executive and people like that.

“That’s their job. We’re employed by this football club to play football, not to set meetings up talking about money. We’ve not even thought about it.”

 

[Foxy]

I wonder if the players will get an apology from certain members of the press for the slagging they've had this week???

I'll not hold my breath.

 

[Linz]

I wonder if the players will get an apology from certain members of the press for the slagging they've had this week???

Surely no journalist would shout their mouth off and make allegations against peoples' reputations without facts?

This would be libel. Which self-respecting journalist with integrity would stoop to this level?

I wonder....

 

[TonyAgana]

Surely no journalist would shout their mouth off and make allegations against peoples' reputations without facts?

This would be libel. Which self-respecting journalist with integrity would stoop to this level?

I wonder....

Anybody see NOTW yesterday? Jesus Christ.

 

[MAQ]

Anybody see NOTW yesterday? Jesus Christ.

no i didnt, care to elaborate?

 

[TonyAgana]

no i didnt, care to elaborate?

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/football/article34683.ece

Try not to run outside and kill someone.

 

[MAQ]

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/football/article34683.ece

Try not to run outside and kill someone.

i was confused by your remoark about killing people prior to reading the article (if thats what you can call it) but know i understand.

Maybe this Andy Dunn (who despite not being a houshold name is allegedly britains number one sports writer) should be sued by the same 10 players for defamation of character

 

[Linz]

C&Ped.....:

I'M GONNA sue. For an entire season, I watched Chris Morgan lump the ball skywards and I swear my neck has never recovered

Had it not been for the crick I developed, I would obviously have written a best-seller, had it adapted for the big screen by Steven Spielberg, made a trillion bucks and would now be lounging in a Hollywood mansion. Pneumatic blonde on arm.

Listening to your bitter drivel for a year dulled my brain. Otherwise, the Nobel Prize for Literature would have been mine.

And do you know what a Nobel Prize is worth? No, neither do I.

But I'm guessing ten million quid. Minimum.

Feral

And I'm still getting dizzy spells after trying in vain to work out which way Rob Hulse was running during that 2006-07 campaign. Get your compo cheque ready, my old son.

The blame and compensation culture has long been a disease in English society.

It's why staff in old people's homes have to ring up relatives in the middle of the night to tell them to come round and pick their 90-year-old mother off the floor.

They're too scared to do it in case they get blamed for any injuries she has sustained.

It's why PC Plod can't give a feral youth a clip around the ear.

It's why people smash up their cars and then sue the manafacturers because they were distracted by the neon entertainment system on the console - the same neon entertainment system that made them buy the thing in the first place.

Now football has well and truly embraced the culture.

Ten Sheffield United players are considering legal action against West Ham for loss of earnings.

It is believed they could be investigating a possibility to claim up to £500,000 a man.

That, incidentally, is about £350,000 more than Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, 23, originally received by way of compensation after losing both legs in a landmine explosion in Afghanistan. He suffered 47 injuries in total and will need medical care for the rest of his life.

By most people's standards - certainly by Ben's standards - these 10 men are extremely wealthy.

OK, some of them are now having to get by on 10 grand a week, but they will cope.

Which is why you have to hope that this tawdry piece of ambulance-chasing fails. In fact, hope it never materialises.

How about players taking responsibility for their own ineptitude for a change? After all, they were the ones who allowed a 10-point cushion to deflate during their relegation season. Not Carlos Tevez.

When Steven Taylor headed a late winner for Newcastle against the Blades, the defender who was supposed to be marking him at a corner was clearly negligent. Surely someone must be able to sue.

And here's a thing I don't get. If Sheffield United are ultimately successful and get £30million out of West Ham, shouldn't these 10 players be asking the Bramall Lane board for the dough?

Worms

It is pathetic.

West Ham deserve no sympathy. A Premier League inquiry found that they had misled the football authorities over the signing of Tevez and Javier Mascherano.

They were duly punished.

But when teams sign up for the Premier League - and all the billions it brings - they should respect it's judicial system.

One observer remarked that the decision of the tribunal headed by Lord Griffiths to award United a possible £30million opened up a can of worms.

He was right. What he didn't know was that 10 of those worms would be wearing football boots.

 

[Bladesman]

Yet West Ham fans still think the players want to sue.

 

[Linz]

Yet West Ham fans still think the players want to sue.

It seems they've caught "tenuous relationship with reality" disease from their club.

 

[jose_d_blade]

this is west hams attempt to make us look like the bad guys to lower the payout! noticed how the fact west ham are cheating lying bastards hardly gets a mention.

not to mention i think their getting lots of help from the outher bigger clubs who are scared to death becouse a chmpionship club can gain victory over a big prem club.

this ruling wont destroy football its just starting even the playing field and the big prem clubs have been protected for well too long.

im sure its the same reson theres no video footage used to make decisions cant protect the big clubs when the vid dosent lie.

 

[Bladesman]

this is west hams attempt to make us look like the bad guys to lower the payout! noticed how the fact west ham are cheating lying bastards hardly gets a mention.

not to mention i think their getting lots of help from the outher bigger clubs who are scared to death becouse a chmpionship club can gain victory over a big prem club.

this ruling wont destroy football its just starting even the playing field and the big prem clubs have been protected for well too long.

im sure its the same reson theres no video footage used to make decisions cant protect the big clubs when the vid dosent lie.

yeah you have a point there aswell.

I was reading that they have a Man U legal adviser on their side regarding all this. Man U trying to make sure nothing gets revealed as to way Tevez still is on loan from MSI?