{"id":441254,"date":"2011-06-14T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/14\/birmingham-city-accuse-aston-villa-of-tapping-up-alex-mcleish-prepare-to-lodge-formal-complaint\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T22:05:00","slug":"birmingham-city-accuse-aston-villa-of-tapping-up-alex-mcleish-prepare-to-lodge-formal-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/14\/birmingham-city-accuse-aston-villa-of-tapping-up-alex-mcleish-prepare-to-lodge-formal-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City accuse Aston Villa of tapping up Alex McLeish &#038; prepare to lodge formal complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Ryan Benson<\/h3>\n<h4>14 Jun 2011 23:05:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"95.675951087\">\n<div readability=\"17.2236842105\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gerard Houllier - Alex McLeish , Aston Villa vs Birmingham City (Getty Images) \" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/117900\/117958_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gerard Houllier &#8211; Alex McLeish , Aston Villa vs Birmingham City (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/103\/birmingham-city\">Birmingham City<\/a> have revealed that they are set to lodge a complaint against rivals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/95\/aston-villa\">Aston Villa<\/a> for tapping up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/scotland\/19100\/alex-mcleish\">Alex McLeish<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McLeish is among the favourites for the Villa job after Gerard Houllier left the club by mutual consent earlier this month following concerns over his health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Tuesday, Villa announced their intention to interview McLeish over the club&#8217;s vacant manager&#8217;s position after the former Rangers man tendered his resignation at St Andrew&#8217;s by e-mail days before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Villa believe McLeish is a free agent and is available to speak to, but as Birmingham are yet to accept the Scot&#8217;s resignation, they see their rivals&#8217; public declaration of their attempts to interview him as tapping up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A statement on Birmingham\u2019s official website reads: \u201cBirmingham City Football Club\u00a0finds Aston Villa&#8217;s announcement today (Tuesday)\u00a0to proceed\u00a0with an interview with Alex McLeish a contempt of Premier League and FA rules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe club feel this\u00a0will taint football and give the game and the footballing authorities a bad name if this is allowed to materialise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe club will do what is within its powers to prevent this and will lodge a formal complaint to the authorities tomorrow as there is now not the slightest doubt remaining about this tap up attempt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBirmingham City FC\u00a0stresses that this conduct, if condoned, will open up flood gates and set a very bad precedent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The statement went on to hit back at claims against Birmingham on Villa\u2019s statement earlier in the day, whilst they have declared that no further comments will be made until all the legal proceedings have been dealt with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It concluded: \u201cThe allegations against the club, president Carson Yeung\u00a0and the Board are frivolous excuses and without foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe matter is now with Birmingham City FC&#8217;s\u00a0lawyers and no further comments will be made.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span id=\"divAdnetKeyword\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><em>Our<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93900\/93900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"48\" height=\"11\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0provides the best breaking news online and our\u00a0<\/em><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GoalUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/93800\/93899.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"49\" height=\"10\" \/><\/em><\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0football fan community is unmatched worldwide. Never miss a thing again!<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/14\/2532460\/birmingham-city-accuse-aston-villa-of-tapping-up-alex\" title=\"Birmingham City accuse Aston Villa of tapping up Alex McLeish &amp; prepare to lodge formal complaint\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Birmingham City accuse Aston Villa of tapping up Alex McLeish &amp; prepare to lodge formal complaint<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Ryan Benson 14 Jun 2011 23:05:00 Gerard Houllier &#8211; Alex McLeish , Aston Villa vs Birmingham City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Birmingham City have revealed that they are set to lodge a complaint against rivals Aston Villa for tapping up Alex McLeish . McLeish is among the favourites for the Villa job after Gerard Houllier left the club by mutual consent earlier this month following concerns over his health. On Tuesday, Villa announced their intention to interview McLeish over the club&#8217;s vacant manager&#8217;s position after the former Rangers man tendered his resignation at St Andrew&#8217;s by e-mail days before. <\/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-441254","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>Birmingham City accuse Aston Villa of tapping up Alex McLeish &amp; prepare to lodge formal complaint - 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\/06\/14\/birmingham-city-accuse-aston-villa-of-tapping-up-alex-mcleish-prepare-to-lodge-formal-complaint\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Birmingham City accuse Aston Villa of tapping up Alex McLeish &amp; prepare to lodge formal complaint - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Ryan Benson 14 Jun 2011 23:05:00 Gerard Houllier - Alex McLeish , Aston Villa vs Birmingham City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Birmingham City have revealed that they are set to lodge a complaint against rivals Aston Villa for tapping up Alex McLeish . 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