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The B-Ark / Re: Todays Echo
« on: June 23, 2009, 09:16:55 PM »Can we go to a court of law on the basis that the rules in a sporting event are unfair or not enforced fairly?
If we do not go to a court of law who do we appeal to? The FA?
Genuine questions. I do not know.
My gut reaction is that we could sue for loss of earnings. We could argue that we'd have had higher crowds, better season ticket sales, higher sponsorship, more prize money, later entry into FA Cup etc if we'd been in Conference North. If the Conference (or FA) have been negligent in their application of their rules then they are responsible for this loss.
I'd imagine we would be making a claim to The Court of Arbitration for Sport, but I'm honestly not sure.
Has such a thing been done before? Would this set a precedent.
Football teams would be claiming against referees that make bad desicions that result in them losing revenue.
I'm all for us getting anything but I feel that it would probably be another wasted £20K on legals and more bad publicity people seeing "BUFC" and "Courts" in the same sentance even though we would be the plaintiff this time.