just a c**t

Still Top Division
And on it goes. West Ham and Sheffield United may have settled the Tevez affair but Neil Warnock and the Blades players relegated in 2007 are not yet willing to let the matter drop.

"The players' claim will continue. We have made correspondence with West Ham's lawyers as recently as the end of last week," players' lawyer Chris Farnell told The Times. "As far as I'm concerned, I should still be a Premier League manager. And I think the players have a case, too," concurred Warnock as he spoke to The Daily Mail.

One of the strangest aspects of the Never Ending Story is that when an independent commission looked into the issue last year it even summoned journalists such as Henry Winter to provide their opinion on whether the Hammers would have been relegated without Tevez and reputedly even included Gary Lineker's conclusion on MOTD in their considerations. Will something of the same sort occur if Warnock's claim that he ought to "still be a Premier League manager...and the players have a case too" is brought forward?

Market forces exist even in football and the fact that no Premier League club has employed - or, as far as we are aware, sought to employ - Warnock since Sheffield United were relegated after winning just 10 of their 38 games in the 2006/07 campaign is, well, arguably instructive. Of the 16 players on duty that fateful May afternoon when defeat at home to Wigan condemned the Blades to a return to the Championship just two - Phil Jagielka and Michael Tonge - have since been employed in the Premier League.

"We deserved to stay up," claims Warnock. But the fact is that, despite beating a West Ham side in mid-April that included Tevez, the Blades were relegated with 38 points. They did lose 1-0 at Upton Park in November but Tevez's influence was limited to 65 minutes and presumably he was not an influential factor in the Hammers preventing the Blades scoring.

Apart from that, we can see Warnock's point.

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Posted By: Ralf Scrampton on March 18th 2009 at 11:33:11

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warnock.. is he right, or just a cunt? (Other Football) - Alan, Mar 18, 11:23:26
- Totally right (n/m) (Other Football) - duke of york, Mar 18, 12:33:08
- just a cunt (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 18, 11:33:11
- not a cat in hells chance of getting anything (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 11:28:10
  - Worth dragging on to highlight how corrupt footy is though (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Mar 18, 11:31:26
    - disagree (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 11:33:55
      - The ref last night did do just about everything to get Arsenal through though (Other Football) - pants, Mar 18, 11:37:58
        
        didn't see it ( (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 11:44:51
        
        the FA never had a spine (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 18, 11:43:02
        
        This is why the west ham rages on, we may as well blow ?20m of money we don't have (Other Football) - pants, Mar 18, 11:52:05
        
        we are cheating with our great big loophole (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 11:54:11
        
        didnt arsenal offer a replay once to sheff utd after they scored from a throw back to the (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 11:47:43
        
        They had 3 players sent off yeah, then Ullathorne got injured (Other Football) - pants, Mar 18, 11:55:02
        
        so *if* wanker told ullathorne he had to come off you think he would have defied him? (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 11:58:28
        
        Not saying you have to, if it was us in their situation, we'd never get over it (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Mar 18, 12:04:21
        
        eh? lost me there. (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 12:10:30
        
        aye but (Other Football) - pants, Mar 18, 12:15:34
        
        in this case there can never be a true verdict as it's all based on supposition and conjec (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 12:19:20
        
        Nah, it's just that west ham shouldn't be in the prem, they fielded an eligible player (Other Football) - pants, Mar 18, 12:22:23
        
        so did we (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 12:23:32
        
        Well no not really, we may have broke the spirit of the law but not the letter (Other Football) - megson, Mar 18, 12:27:11
        
        I was whooooshed a little there wasn't i? Sigh. No real surprise though. (n/m) (Other Football) - megson, Mar 18, 12:51:19
        
        and that is where warnocks case falls to bits (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 12:31:14
        
        oh i agree with you on Warnock, no case what so ever. Plus HE RESIGNED and didn't get (Other Football) - megson, Mar 18, 12:50:00
        
        Because he probably would still be (Other Football) - pants, Mar 18, 12:34:39
        
        i really honestly don't know though (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 12:41:31
        
        yadda yadda yadda (Other Football) - pants, Mar 18, 12:42:21
        
        *Bite* (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 12:44:41
        
        why hasn't he got himself a job with another Premiership club then? (n/m) (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 18, 12:38:41
        
        ****tumbleweed**** (n/m) (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 12:49:39
        
        Who? (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Mar 18, 12:24:28
        
        guess (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 12:25:41
        
        clue..... (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 12:33:18
        
        He's going to town now (Other Football) - pants, Mar 18, 12:35:49
        
        rolf (n/m) (Other Football) - LaFleur, Mar 18, 12:32:12
        
        ture^ (n/m) (Other Football) - Tombs, Mar 18, 12:19:34
- He's right (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Mar 18, 11:26:44
  - But Alan is quite right about the latter part of his question (n/m) (Other Football) - Fierce Panda, Mar 18, 11:28:50

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