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Comment | McKenna: There's Nothing in the Rulebook About That
at 16:27:26
Bert - Sporting competition rules do form part of the legal contract of participation in sport so precedent applies. This is how clubs can sue via courts up to ICAS. So it is relevant in law, actually. But I was saying it's like case law, rather than saying each precedent is specifically part of common law. |
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Comment | McKenna: There's Nothing in the Rulebook About That
at 11:26:23
If the referee knows that there is precedent under the EFL Board decisions and the result will stand he should tell the managers because that's simply the facts of the situation. Agree it is the club's legal representatives' job to know the rules of the competition, not the football manager, I'm just saying McKenna was clearly misinformed. Not his fault as not his job, but he was told the wrong thing. |
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Comment | McKenna: There's Nothing in the Rulebook About That
at 10:54:33
Saxon Blue - it appears not. He's saying there is nothing in the rulebook, but that is not the whole reference frame. IFAB laws say 60mins is enough for a result and EFL have full discretion under their competition laws and have set the precedent at 75mins. It's like case law. It is effectively now the rule because of the need for fair application from that precedent onwards. When McKenna says ‘it's not in the rulebook' he has clearly not been informed about the importance of precedent. So, obviously, not fully informed. |
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Comment | McKenna: There's Nothing in the Rulebook About That
at 07:35:51
Following from above, all abandonments in EFL games past 75 minutes that I can find records of, for reasons ranging from weather to ‘the battle of Brammall Lane', seem to have carried the score at that point (unless one team caused the abandonment - then that team is typically punished via a losing score of 0-3). So it does seem a clear precedent. Looks like the ref was right and our company secretary does not understand precedent. |
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Comment | McKenna: There's Nothing in the Rulebook About That
at 07:24:54
IFAB laws say a match which has to be abandoned after 60 minutes *may* be considered complete. EFL competition rules leave it to the sole discretion of the EFL Board, in conjunction with IFAB and FA laws, so they may consider a match complete if abandoned after 60 minutes, because IFAB rules give them that option. What I am missing is details of precedent. If the EFL Board has set a precedent - perhaps on matches after 75 minutes - then that will be established from then on. Precedent becomes ‘case law' and will be binding for reasons of fairness unless there is something exceptional about this case. The EFL Board must have set precedent here because postponements for weather happen quite often. And that does not need to be mentioned in the EFL rules. I suspect McKenna is not fully informed. |
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