Quote Originally Posted by SithHappens View Post
Interesting though when they closed the loop hole that Steve Gibson had been exploiting they didn't apply it retrospectively.

I am no fan of Mel for pushing us into this however I do have a degree of sympathy because they had happily accepted our accounting method for a number of years, and that method was tagged on the charge raised which was initially solely around the sale of the stadium.

The initial panel found no problem with the accounting method, a panel comprising of I believe, 3 accountants.

The appeal panel had no one of accounting expertise in the same way, and still they said that the method was legal, but as you say as others were not using it they chose to define the method of accounting and backdated it.
True dat. I have often wondered if Gibson and/or Couhig had enough "dirt" to have gone after the EFL if they hadn't done all in their power to "do" DCFC...