Leeds have been fined £150,000 by the Football Association for homophobic chanting in their match with Brighton. The incident occurred during their 2-2 home draw with the Seagulls in the Premier League in March. In its written reasons, the independent commission said: "The use of the phrases is obviously and plainly discriminatory and highly derogatory." Leeds have accepted the fine and said in a statement they "need to increase work we are doing with our fanbase".
As much as I like looking at her, who really cares https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ng-manchester-united-if-mason-greenwood-stays
In my role, I would absolutely take legal advice. The complexity is that footballers contracts are rarely as a straightforward ‘employee’ as many of us are. They often use limited companies to hide behind, so the club would hire the player via a limited company. They do this for tax and other purposes. So the complication is that normally, if an employer dismissed, they could be taken to an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal. But the cap on an award if they lose is in the thousands of pounds, so next to nothing compared to the contract greenwood would be on. In man U’s case, they would be looking at a claim for breach of contract (if my understanding of the contract as above, ie with a limited company, is right). In that case, there is no cap on an award, so it could be the full value of the contract. If I were to seek advice, it would be on 2 fronts. 1. Asking about the risk of losing the legal claim. 2. What is the best way to defend the claim. Lawyers would give a percentage risk for the claim, eg 40% risk of loss. Then they would advise the best way to achieve that % or better. I’ve dismissed employees knowing we would lose a tribunal, but also knowing that the award for losing would be nothing compared to the potential losses of keeping the employee, I.e. you take the hit because the employee is such a liability they are likely to cause you bigger losses via their incompetence, behaviour etc. note that it’s notoriously difficult to dismiss employees cleanly with no risk of unfair dismissal (especially in the civil service where I work). Man U will probably be thinking through this very calculation right now. There are risks in dismissing, but they could mitigate the risks with a good argument around the evidence as to whether greenwood did the act, coupled with a strong argument about the public image issues they now face if they keep him on. We now have celebrity fans, womenswear groups etc urging Man U to dismiss, which could help their argument about the public image risks. I’ll be really interested to see where they go. I hope they dismiss, but I say that with the caveat that I don’t know all the facts.
The problem here isn't the terms required to get rid of him, there'll be a 'bringing the club into disrepute' clause in his contract that would easily allow them to get rid of him if they wanted. The issue here, is that Man United clearly don't want to get rid of him.
I agree, which is a shame. But they have delayed the announcement, so clearly there’s a debate happening in the club
That was the reason I asked about involving lawyers. I had a carry on some years ago with a well known Scottish Brewery,they used 'Eversheds',you're probably aware of them? I remember well all the investigation meetings,disciplinary hearing and appeal...They were always taking 'breaks' to go along the corridor and 'discuss' things with senior H.R etc Of course,you and I are well aware they were on the phone to their Lawyers dependant on my answers.Even during my appeal they continued in this fashion and I eventually quipped "can't you just bring the ****ing phone along and we'll have a conference call"? I eventually resigned on unfair/constructive dismissal grounds and then the fun began in Ernest with 'eversheds'....The first 'cost warning' amounted to just shy of £40k and the second on the first morning of the trial was....£70k as they'd involved an advocate(barrister) to defend their case. Anyway,told them to foxtrot oscar,went ahead,beat them hands down and splattered them over a Scottish National newspaper to rub salt into their wounds!! It cost me my job and it cost them approx 9 months wages(a drop in the ocean to them but the bastards would've made my life hell if I'd have stayed).
116 minutes!! Rick missing his train right there its A disgrace but I sorta like it cos the little team beat out Barcelona Barcelona fume at ‘disgrace’ after 116 minutes of pure Bordalásball Sid Lowe please log in to view this image It’s back: La Liga, home of the beautiful game. Land of Iago Aspas, Pedri and Antoine Griezmann, of Jude Bellinghamtoo. Of Isinho, Iker Muniain, Gerard Moreno, and Darderismo. Of Papu Gómez, the man who says “a dribble opens a new world” and follows the referee, because there’s no one better positioned, see? Of Youssef En-Nesyri’s leap, the outside of Luka Modric’s boot and Isco’s dancing feet. Feel the quality, the intelligence, the touch, the technique, the fantasy, the … Oh. That. Yep, that’s back too. Bigger than ever before. One hundred and sixteen minutes of pure Bordalásball. The opening weekend started in Almería, where midfielder Óscar Valentín said the heat was “inhuman,” with a penalty given to Rayo, the first goal of the new season scored by Isi Palazón and followed by another from Randy Nteka in 2-0 win. It ended just before midnight on Sunday in Getafe with a penalty not eventually given to Barcelona, the champions held to a 0-0 draw while Xavi Hernández, sent off and steaming, watched from his glass prison, supporters with outstretched arms positioned the other side of the press box he had been forced to occupy, trying to squeeze him into their selfies. Between those two moments, a lot had happened. A lot more was about to, the fallout fierce. please log in to view this image Fans attempt to get their shots of Xavi. Photograph: Quality Sport Images/Getty Images For the first time a goal from Take Kubo – “great player, lovely lad, terrible hair cut,” according to Javier Aguirre – wasn’t accompanied by a Real Sociedad victory, after Artem Duvbyk scored Girona’s equaliser eight minutes into his debut. Javi Guerra, the kid who rescued Valencia last season, went and did it again with a last-minute winner at Sevilla. And Rafa Benítez’s return ended in Celta’s defeat to Osasuna. There was Sergi Darder, coming on to change the game for Mallorca, Isco playing his first match in 10 months and looking a little like magic again, and above all there was Bellingham. “The Boss,” AS called him after his hugely impressive debut at Athletic. please log in to view this image Jude Bellingham celebrates after scoring against Athletic. Photograph: Javier Zorrilla/EPA By the end, though, everyone was talking about what they had just seen and couldn’t unsee at the Coliseum, where Barcelona had suffered but not scored over two and a quarter hours. Which shouldn’t have surprised that much. El Pais declared there “no more disagreeable place than Getafe”, while in AS, Santi Giménez compared playing them to eating a “nail sandwich,” watching their games being like a Jason Statham film: “Whether he’s facing an eastern mafioso, a Russian mercenary or a 25-metre Megalodon with teeth the size of a Range Rover, you know there’s going to be damage done.” This was the fourth time in a row Barcelona have failed to score there, a third 0-0 to go with a 1-0 defeat. And the day before the game Getafe coach José Bordalás had announced: “Tiki-taka is history; some keep talking about it but it’s gone.” Immediately after it, the Barça midfielder Oriol Romeu even admitted: “We knew what was coming.” But, he added: “This exceeded expectations.” Xavi called it a “disgrace.” What was coming was a night so long that the editor of one newspaper said he couldn’t even see it out. “An insufferable disgrace,” Alfredo Relaño called it, saying he “turned off the telly horrified, feeling like ever more sinister spirits are destroying football. An affront to all of us who like football, this doesn’t work.” It was also one that opens debates, about styles and time-keeping and entertainment and whose responsibility it is, about where the line is drawn and by whom. Even Xavi didn’t so much blame Getafe as what you could call their enablers, addressing the way referees officiate and calling for a stopping clock, insisting: “Do that and you end the problems; I’ve said that a thousand times.” It had certainly shown that simply adding time doesn’t really fix anything. At one point during the game, Ronald Araujo literally jumped up and caught the ball, which might even have been the standout moment. He later explained that he thought the ball was already out of play, which kind of made sense: it often was. There were 10 minutes added at the end of the first half, 16 at the end of the second. A game that started at 9.30pm finished at 11.43pm. Some 116 minutes were used up, never to be given back, and in almost half of them the ball was not in play. There were 20 fouls from Getafe – which, actually, seems quite low – and just over 20% of the ball, red cards for Raphinha first and Jaime Mata later, another for Xavi for complaining that referee CésarSoto Grado was turning a blind eye, allowing Getafe to get away with it, and no goals. In short, it wasn’t great. And yet it kind of was. Sport said Barcelona had been stopped “with a beating,” although their failure to truly generate football didn’t help. “Those of us who like good football and entertainment feel sadness and anger today,” complained Enric Masip, advisor to Barcelona’s president Joan Laporta, which he would. “The real time [played] is lamentable. The absurd and provocative fouls are constant. The good player has it tough, the hacker triumphs.” When Barcelona finally thought they might get the win, a late, late lifeline handed to them when Araujo went down on 99min 59sec, the referee waved it away. Sent to the VAR for a second look, a penalty seeming probable, he instead saw a handball from Gavi – or, to use Xavi’s words, “invented” it. And so Barcelona had been held; in fact, they had almost been beaten, Gastón Álvarez heading just past the post on 105min 19sec. Either way, they had been Bordalásed. Post-game there was even a hint of a smile, a laugh as Romeu discussed what had happened. There is something almost comic about it, after all. Alongside him, Frenkie de Jong claimed “at least 25 or 30 minutes had been wasted.” You could imagine the pair getting back to the dressing room and finding a calling card: congratulations, you’ve met the Getafe crew. Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Yet that’s a joke too and an easy one: the way Getafe are often portrayed, these kind of dark, cartoonish figures – and none so bad as Damián Suárez – often becomes a caricature. That is something that their coach is acutely aware of, seeing himself as a victim, a narrative in which he is everyone’s go-to bad guy, a public enemy, an affront to decency and football. It is often exaggerated, but that does not mean it is entirely invented. This is what his teams do: pack a defence, break up the game, get in your face and under your skin. Chip away at the flow, the time, and the opponents. Raphinha was rightly sent off for landing an elbow on Álvarez – “the only violent moment was theirs,” Bordalás said – but that had been part of the plan, a trap laid. Similar moments went unseen, executed under cover of darkness. Getafe completed 167 passes – Barcelona had 659 – but they didn’t want more. When they survived on the final day of last season against Valladolid, they did so with just 64 of them. “At 0-0 they’re comfortable; they waste time, they interrupt the game. That’s their way of competing,” Xavi said. please log in to view this image José Bordalás urges his team on. Photograph: Florencia Tan Jun/Getty Images And in the end, that’s the thing: it works. For Getafe fans, there’s a kind of fun in being the baddies, a rebellion, sticking it to the man, all those fancy dans. No one likes us, we don’t care. So much the better, in fact. The first time the Coliseum – even the name fits – started singing “Bordalás, I love you!” last night was immediately after Raphinha had been sent off. It wouldn’t be the last, and they couldn’t mean it any more. When he joined Getafe in 2016, Bordalás took over a side near the bottom of the second division and changed everything, taking them back to Primera and all the way into Europe. Last season he returned with just seven games to go and rescued them again, those 64 passes all all-time low and yet high enough to complete an impossible misison. Then he had agreed to stay another season. Now he had opened it by doing what he does, and to the champions. “If we sell the league as a product and this is the result, it’s not good,” Xavi said. Almería 0-2 Rayo Vallecano, Sevilla 1-2 Valencia, Real Sociedad 1-1 Girona, Las Palmas 1-1 Mallorca, Athletic Club 0-2 Real Madrid, Celta Vigo 0-2 Osasuna, Villarreal 1-2 Real Betis, Getafe 0-0 Barcelona Monday Cádiz v Alavés 6.30pm BST, Atlético Madrid v Getafe 8.30pm BST ","credit":"","format":{"display":2,"theme":2,"design":10}}" data-reader-unique-id="136" style="max-width: 100%;">Quick Guide La Liga results Show
Leeds 6 shots....1 on target... Glad I didn't put the mortgage on them... West Brom 3 shots..2 on target... Also rans!
