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Bacup Bring in the Lawyers
Bacup Borough have turned to the lawyers to fight a charge of failing to complete a fixture and a £300 fine after the....
4 CommentsPublished 2nd July 2012
North West Counties League demanded they played six games in seven days at the end of last season.
The West View club has instructed Blackburn commercial law firm Garricks to act on their behalf in the appeal to the Football Association and claim the deduction of three points and fine was “grossly unfair”.
Postponements caused by April’s bad weather left Brent Peters’ Bacup with a large fixture backlog and league bosses asked the team to play six games between Saturday, April 28th and Saturday, May 5th to complete all fixtures before the season-end date. Bacup played five of the fixtures but were unable to play a home match against Colne on May 2nd. This came the night after another rearranged home game and just 24 hours before the League Challenge Cup Final.
The North West Counties League management committee ruled that the club had to forfeit the points from that fixture as well as being docked three points in the final league standings and receiving a £300 fine.
But Garricks have taken up the fight and associate solicitor Tom Smith said: “Bacup Borough thought it neither fair nor safe for the players involved to be obliged to play so many competitive games in such a short space of time.”
The North West Counties League has twenty-one days to respond to the appeal and say it will be considered at the next meeting of its appeals board.
A spokesman for the FA said he couldn’t comment on individual cases but admitted the Association was aware of the situation.
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Comments (4)
It seems to me that league committees fine teams for the sake of it without thinking of the adverse effects on their league teams. Geoff Davies March Town United.
I dont agree every year Bacup have more games postponed than any other club in the league, why ...because their pitch is waterlogged after even a shower... get the pitch sorted and you wont have so many matches postponed. and as for having too many games in one week do you notice that they cancell tha Colne match but their opponents in the cup match played theres so Bacup had fresh legs for the final ...why play the final if you had too many games to play?
just checked Bacup website they have 28 players registered surely they could make up two teams to play their last two games of the season.....
I cant argue that point Ken, as I dont know your league.
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