Leeds United are to sue The Football League over their 15-points deduction, despite a signed agreement stating they would not take legal action against them.

Whites chairman Ken Bates has consistently pleaded Leeds' case against their deduction, which came about after the club failed to exit administration with an agreed Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) in place.

After numerous appeals and patience on Leeds' part, they have now decided to take The Football League to high court in order to force an open and independent review of their points deduction.

"We're suing the Football League for our 15 points because we believe, as we always have, that there was no justification for the penalty," he told the Yorkshire Evening Post.

"The agreement we had saying we wouldn't take legal action was signed under duress. We were a couple of days from the start of the season and we wouldn't have been able to fulfil our fixtures without regaining our share in the Football League.

"In that situation, we either signed the document or we let ourselves be booted out of the League. But EU law says Person A cannot prevent Person B from going to court if it's to right a wrongful decision.

"We did ask the FA for independent arbitration but we've been waiting five months for them to do anything, and the whole thing is a shambles.

"We want an open and independent review of this decision, and the only way of ensuring that is by going to the High Court."

if they do this then surely the f.a are going to make life hard for them at every chance


hope they dont go up, hate the bounders

Nowt to do with their gash form since Poyet left then. Sh!tt!ng themselves that they may not go up after all.
Other side of the coin is that if their appeal fails the FA could INCREASE their 15 point deduction.
How heartbreaking would that be?

i hope Leeds don't go up. But even if they had 30 points took off them they would still probably finish above us.....

Sadly Jonny, you may be right.

Bates is in some ways being quite canny here. If nothing else, he's helping to keep the feeling of victimhood - "no-one likes us but we don't care" - going at the club, and that has been a factor for them this season. There's always a chance he might get some joy from the courts, and if he doesn't the chances are that they're not worse off points-wise in any case.

I still don't like the way he does business, and I'd definately cross the road to avoid him (though of course he'd probably be being chauffeured along it in any case), and I'm very glad he's not at Pools. I suspect though if you ask a lot of Leeds fans, he's getting them onside by things like this - even if it does smack of having his cake and eating it....

The "mighty" Leeds resorting to this sh!te to get out of Division 3.

If it wasn't for the 15 points they'd have had a shell of a team thinking "what the fook am I doing here" and thinking they had nothing to play for. The deduction has made them close ranks and has galvanised them to the point where they play their guts out for eachother and scrap for everything. Bates should just shut the fook up and get on with it, that deduction is the best thing to happen to Leeds in the last 5 years

It was fantastic how much of a cock Wise made of himself with his comments before they played Donny at the weekend;

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... -20293351/

Have you noticed how the boss eyed little fookwit always sends Harry Bassett out when they lose as well