{"id":426591,"date":"2011-05-19T06:23:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/19\/oneills-villa-tribunal-to-start\/"},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:23:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:23:18","slug":"oneills-villa-tribunal-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/19\/oneills-villa-tribunal-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s Villa tribunal to start"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"70.1369647355\">\n<div readability=\"69\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/52822000\/jpg\/_52822424_o'neill464.jpg\" width=\"464\" height=\"261\" alt=\"A flag depicting Martin O'Neill is draped over the stands at Villa Park\" \/> A flag depicting Martin O&#8217;Neill is draped over the stands at Villa Park<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>A Premier League Tribunal will on Thursday start to consider the circumstances that led to Martin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s abrupt departure from the manager&#8217;s job at Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Neill has refused to shed any light on why he left Villa last August.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal follows the failure of a mediation process to resolve his dispute with the club late last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League Managers&#8217; Arbitration tribunal is only the third involving a manager in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The other two concerned Alan Curbishley and West Ham in 2010, and Kevin Keegan and Newcastle in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>All contracts with Premier League managers include a clause ensuring they and the clubs attempt mediation, so this tribunal is a Court of Last Resort &#8211; where other attempts at mediation have failed.<\/p>\n<p>This Premier League model, chaired by a QC, is designed to avoid the expense and time of going to the High Court.<\/p>\n<p>It will be up to the panel chairman to decide how much of the evidence, submissions of the parties, and the panel&#8217;s findings are made public.<\/p>\n<p>In the Keegan case they were very damaging for Newcastle United, who had to pay \u00a32m in damages plus interest as they were ruled to be in breach of a term in his contract.<\/p>\n<p>Curbishley also won his case for constructive dismissal, with West Ham paying an undisclosed compensation fee.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal could sit for at least a week and there is no deadline for a ruling to be announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/13447139.stm\" title=\"O'Neill's Villa tribunal to start\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s Villa tribunal to start<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A flag depicting Martin O&#8217;Neill is draped over the stands at Villa Park A Premier League Tribunal will on Thursday start to consider the circumstances that led to Martin O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s abrupt departure from the manager&#8217;s job at Aston Villa. O&#8217;Neill has refused to shed any light on why he left Villa last August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>O&#039;Neill&#039;s Villa tribunal to start - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/19\/oneills-villa-tribunal-to-start\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"O&#039;Neill&#039;s Villa tribunal to start - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A flag depicting Martin O&#039;Neill is draped over the stands at Villa Park A Premier League Tribunal will on Thursday start to consider the circumstances that led to Martin O&#039;Neill&#039;s abrupt departure from the manager&#039;s job at Aston Villa. 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