Football: Leeds accept 'unjust' ruling.AN independent tribunal has upheld the Football League's 15-point penalty imposed on Leeds at the start of the season. The three-man panel's decision sees Leeds stay in sixth place in Coca-Cola League One and they must now hope to secure promotion via a play-off place. Leeds chairman Ken Bates Kenneth William Bates (born 4 December 1931 in Ealing, London) is an English businessman and football executive commonly known as Ken Bates. The current chairman of Leeds United Football Club Limited and Leeds United A.F.C. said he would accept the tribunal's findings, but a club statement described the decision as "unjust UNJUST. That which is done against the perfect rights of another; that which is against the established law; that which is opposed to a law which is the test of right and wrong. 1 Toull. tit. prel. n. 5; Aust. Jur. 276, n.; Hein. Lec. El. Sec. 1080. " and revealed the club will propose a change in the rules "to protect other clubs in the future." |
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