Bodicoteblue
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Talk of punishment without due process reminds me of the wheel clamping issue a few years back.
Private landowners reckoned putting up a sign warning of clamping gave them carte-blanche to wheel-clamp as they saw fit and then pretty much demand money with menaces to unclamp victims.
The government decided this was disproportionate and intimidatory behaviour and outlawed it immediately.
I only mention this because it is a demonstration that private concerns, be they landowners or corrupt football bodies cannot ride roughshod over the law, no matter how they try to justify it. UEFA were told this after the Bosman ruling and they have to recognise that that precedent has been set.
Private landowners reckoned putting up a sign warning of clamping gave them carte-blanche to wheel-clamp as they saw fit and then pretty much demand money with menaces to unclamp victims.
The government decided this was disproportionate and intimidatory behaviour and outlawed it immediately.
I only mention this because it is a demonstration that private concerns, be they landowners or corrupt football bodies cannot ride roughshod over the law, no matter how they try to justify it. UEFA were told this after the Bosman ruling and they have to recognise that that precedent has been set.