Darren Lewis broke the news in the Daily Mirror just before midnight that the FA have caved in to West Ham’s demands for arbitration.
A three-person panel will consist of one from each side and a mutually agreed third
It is claimed The FA have only agreed to arbitration in the Andy Carroll case to prevent West Ham going to the High Court on Friday morning over the 3 match ban.
The hearing has been scheduled under the FA’s Rule K for 11am Friday at a venue to be arranged. Both parties will choose one person each to sit on a three-man panel. A third will have to be agreed upon.
West Ham have stood by a number of points made in a letter put to the FA by top barrister Lord David Pannick QC
They insisted that Andy Carroll should have had a personal hearing and that although the Commission maintains an “obvious error” has to have been made such wording doesn’t exist in the rules.
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