Disco wrote:
Equity? Balance? Fairness? Strange concepts to a Wiganner maybe, but quite a lot of people stand by them.
if a taxi driver was hauled before the courts for not having a bale of hay in his boot (or whatever the archaic law is) then he might have cause to wonder why he's the only one picked on when it's patently obvious that every f**ker else is breaking the same law too.
That is still no reason to complain that you have been caught not doing enough to stop the abusive chanting. There is, as yet, no evidence that such chanting has been heard at other games so the point is mute.
Disco wrote:
They took steps. As I understand it they made tannoy announcements and sent stewards into the crowd.
Again, as I understand it Cas have had CCTV installed to monitor the crowd, but perhaps we're missing a trick here. Do other clubs insist on passports and DNA swabs?
They did challenge it. You concede they 'may' be able to appeal this.
Then if all these steps have been taken, the fine will have to be revoked and an apology served from Red Hall, won't it. Maybe an internal inquiry could be held at Cas to find out why this evidence of what the club did (which only seems to have appeared very late in this thread) was not presented when the fine was first imposed.
Disco wrote:
No idea if they did, but the word 'meaningful' makes this entirely subjective anyway.
Many items in law are subjective, being decided ultimately by tribunals, majistrates, and judges. That doesn't lessen their validity.
