Re honesty in football, can't believe the useless Archant people haven't kicked Sheepy

for being held to be a throughly unreliable witness in the Football League claim

This is what Mr Justice Rimer thought of Sheepshagger (for example):

93. I do not accept that Mr Sheepshanks?s late recollection is of an event that happened and I reject his evidence that it did. The point is so central to the issues in the case that, had it happened and had he remembered it, he could not have failed to flag it up in his witness statement. The notion that the memory of the making of this collective decision suddenly emerged during the crisis of cross-examination is one I am not prepared to accept. Mr Sheepshanks?s evidence on this was, I find, the product of the wish being father to the thought. I was left with no confidence that it was a reliable recollection and I find it was not.

134. It is clear, and I find, that at no point during the meeting was anything said about security. When asked if he agreed with that, Mr Sheepshanks said he could not say whether or not the matter was raised. That was a disingenuous answer. He knows it was not. ... He elaborated that by adding that it was not necessary to raise the matter at this meeting, but ?it would have been necessary to raise it before anything was signed legally and binding?, an observation which might be regarded as a contribution of the obvious. ... Mr Sheepshanks apparently preferred to work on the basis that instructions in this respect could and would be (perhaps were already being) conveyed to Mr Alderson by a process of telepathy.

For a Chancery judge, that's pretty rude! Shagger completely f**ked up the deal for the Football League and has effectively been held to have lied in Court, but has there even been a paragraph in the EDP?

Posted By: Old Git on September 20th 2006 at 09:43:42

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