If it was the third party deal which made the said players ineligible to play how come they are not now ineligible at MU & Liverpool - they are still third pary owned??!!!

west ham 6th in the prem sheffield 15th in the championship. nuff said. no ammount of money will change that. maybe the spuds and newcastle should start plotting ridiculous lawsuits to smokescreen their relegations

Who cares this is football that war of the illegal signings. Hey all sheffield fans you should have called crime stoppers

If Tevez and Mascherano kept West Ham in the league how come they didn't get relegated last season??

i honestly think west ham knew they were in the wrong BUT never thought theyd still be propping up the table with them.they thought stuff it,we'll sign these two vastly superior players and be knocking on the champions league by the end of the season...and just take a little slap on the wrist off fa later on.

Are people forgetting that it took over 1 month for Liverpool to sign mascharesmo and yet it took only one week for man united to sign teves so if any thing it proves just how corrupt the prem is regarding teams.
So in that case the prem was at fualt for not docking points and west ham knowingly played two players with questionable registration(third party) which is against the rules.

its not the same crime... the initial fine was their punishment for the breaking of the laws, the 30 million is compensation to their victims.. simple.

If the only difference between Sheffield and West Ham was Tevez, then why is Sheffield still in the Championship? If you were unfairly relegated, and were in reality the better team, then why haven't they made it back into the Premiership yet? Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that the Blades are utter @#$% and decided they could make some money by blaming West Ham for their failures, could it? Nah...

fa say no appeal but the original tribunal was independant, you cant try a man twice for the same crime,we got fined accepted our punishment and moved on.there were still 3/4 games left to that season after that judgement,we beat wigan away and tevez didnt play well,bolton at home where noble was best player ,yeah tevez scored against man u but the defence were the stars of the game,.Aside from that can we then sue liverepool for fielding their reserve team against fulham that season losing 1-0 which meant fulham stayed up because fulham would have dropped without that.

who cares? both teams are @#$% . Personally, if it annoys Sean bean then im happy. fnar!

what people dont seem to realise is that sheffield united took the action against west ham because if they had not CHEATED and played two inelliagable players then there positons would have be reversed. West ham would have been relegated and United stayed up. Take into consideration the goals and assists that Tevez and mascherano contributed to the team over the 38 games of the season, not just the man utd game everyone seems to be harping on about, then they would have been relegated long before the last game of the season, thus meaning sheffield united not being in the relegation zone. It doesn't matter what anyone says about who is right and wrong at the end of the day west ham broke the rules for a full season, not just one or two games, They got points which they shouldn't have had and sheffield united were wrongly punished.

it will take more than £30 mill to get @#$%field back in the prem!!

Why didnt west ham just buy sheff utd and then shut them down.

Errrr that would be because Sheffield United are extremely financially sound and West Ham are rammed to the hilt in debt. The financial status of the two clubs couldn't be more different - if this 30m quid fine (or more) sticks, under just about every rule of solid business sense West Ham should be treated as financially unviable and placed in administration.

its not west hams fault, there is a footballing regulatory body that should keep track of these things making sure they cant happen, just like with bungs but the FA is useless. also the article states that the FA handed them a 5.5M fine for this infringement, that should then be the end of it, Sheffield Utd should have sued the FA for not sticking to the rules and deducting points but instead handing out a measly fine

West Ham United should make a counter-claim against Sheffield United, and Wigan Athletic, for potential match-fixing - their last match of the season was undoubtedly fixed. Wigan to win (as they did 2-1, and with 10 men!!), saving both themselves and Sheffield United from the drop; thereupon, West Ham being relegated, because it had been assumed that they would, without a doubt, lose to Man UTD. Furthermore, consider that if Tevez had not've scored the winner at Old Trafford - say for example Anton Ferdinand or perhaps Bobby Zamora had. The consequence being that McCabe and his sycophantic collective would not have the overidding excuse to lay the blame directly upon Carlos Tevez. At face value the Tevez factor is far too complex to offer an assured comment; however, when the Premier League advised West Ham United that they were free to actually play Tevez - which I beleive they did. Then why are West Ham guilty of fielding the player? The call was not theirs! Answers on a Postcard please to motormouth McCabe, Sheffield who...?

What's really upsetting West Ham fans? Is it that the judgement is going to cost them £30M, or is it because they know that whatever they achieve in the forseeable future will be tainted by it being built on a legally confirmed injustice?

This is going to drag on for ages, cause i can´t see West Ham sitting back and excepting the verdict regardless of the denial of appeal.

They´ll dig their hreals in and do exactly what the whinging baldes have done and take it as far as they possibly can. Make them wait even longer for the cash they don´t deserve.

The fact of the matter is West Ham were fined originally and continued to play Tevez with the PL´s agreement. Just because the Blades couldn´t muster up the 42 points which is generally considered to be the safety line, is not the fault of West Ham or Tevez.. Granted you could say that West Ham would not have got their 40 odd points without him, but that´s speculation and doesn´t distract from the fact that Tevez didn´t rob SU of the points they themselves required.

i think west ham should had 30 point taken off them, for sheffield united to go up pl and replace west ham, i think the FA footbll has rules for one team and not for other up the rams fan

Love it, love it love it! About time some common sense was used. West Ham - dont break the rules - this is what you get for cheating!!!! You deserve everything and Super Blades deserve every penny. We hammered you at the lane 3 - 0 so dont give me any rubbish about how good you are! The only reason you didnt have points deducted in the first place was because of Brooking! Then you would have gone down and moaned about the injustice afterwards.

Super Bladesmen from the lane..........

As an independant I felt that Wesat Ham should have had points deducted by breakuing the rules. That would have mean their relegation but at least they wouldn't have to find £30m. If the team was good enough to stay up they would have been promoted the following season anyway, wouldn't they? It is also my considered belief that agents have ruined the game by asking for inflated transfer fees and salaries and encouraging players to switch clubs so they can charge a fat fee. I feel that all transfers should be negotiated via the F.A. domestically and F.I.F.A. internationally with no commissions, merely expenses and a reasonable fee for services. Also if a player wishes to employ an agent it should be up to him to pay him, not the club. Hopefully Westa Ham and other clubs will learn from this decision.