Club statement suggests a bleak financial future awaits the Blades

Last week’s announcement that there will be a new inquiry into whether Carlos Tevez should have received Premier League permission to play in the final three games of the 2006-07 season sounded like bad news for West Ham.

However, the silence of Sheffield United chairman Kevin McCabe, who was so vocal when the Lord Griffiths-chaired tribunal ruled in their favour last September, suggests that perhaps they aren’t happy with recent developments.

The Blades already got the verdict they wanted and blocked West Ham’s right to appeal so, given the unlikelyhood of them being reinstalled in the Premier League, this new inquiry is unlikely to further benefit them.