{"id":443132,"date":"2011-06-17T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/17\/birmingham-city-vow-to-vigorously-pursue-legal-action-against-alex-mcleish-after-aston-villa-appointment\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T13:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T13:35:00","slug":"birmingham-city-vow-to-vigorously-pursue-legal-action-against-alex-mcleish-after-aston-villa-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/17\/birmingham-city-vow-to-vigorously-pursue-legal-action-against-alex-mcleish-after-aston-villa-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham City vow to &#8216;vigorously pursue&#8217; legal action against Alex McLeish after Aston Villa appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Sam Bisby<\/h3>\n<h4>17 Jun 2011 14:35:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"78.8767985612\">\n<div readability=\"16.0330188679\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL : Alex McLeish, Birmingham City- Aston Villa(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/95700\/95764_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EPL : Alex McLeish, Birmingham City- Aston Villa(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 vowed to pursue legal action against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/95\/aston-villa\">Aston Villa<\/a> manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/scotland\/19100\/alex-mcleish\">Alex McLeish<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Scot resigned from his post at St Andrew&#8217;s last week via email, with the League Managers&#8217; Association backing the boss, citing &#8220;serious issues&#8221; between McLeish and senior figures at Birmingham City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>McLeish was controversially appointed as the successor to Gerard Houllier on Friday morning, but Birmingham are looking for some sort of compensation from the former Rangers and Scotland manager.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The club released a statement on their official website revealing how they plan to deal with the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe fact that Alex McLeish has been appointed does not mean that the legal dispute is over and Birmingham City maintains its stance and will vigorously pursue the matter,\u201d the statement read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are very disappointed with how the club and its fans have been treated by Mr McLeish given the way we have supported him over the years and we are still looking into whether Aston Villa\u2019s conduct has been in line with Premier League rules.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Acting chairman Peter Pannu is still to appoint a new manager, but the club insist they will act on the vacancy in good time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The statement continued: \u201cThe club will continue its full efforts on recruiting a new manager and hopes to make an appointment as soon as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/17\/2536174\/birmingham-city-vow-to-vigorously-pursue-legal-action\" title=\"Birmingham City vow to 'vigorously pursue' legal action against Alex McLeish after Aston Villa appointment\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Birmingham City vow to &#8216;vigorously pursue&#8217; legal action against Alex McLeish after Aston Villa appointment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Sam Bisby 17 Jun 2011 14:35:00 EPL : Alex McLeish, Birmingham City- Aston Villa(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Birmingham City have vowed to pursue legal action against Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish . The Scot resigned from his post at St Andrew&#8217;s last week via email, with the League Managers&#8217; Association backing the boss, citing &#8220;serious issues&#8221; between McLeish and senior figures at Birmingham City. <\/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-443132","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 vow to &#039;vigorously pursue&#039; legal action against Alex McLeish after Aston Villa appointment - 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\/17\/birmingham-city-vow-to-vigorously-pursue-legal-action-against-alex-mcleish-after-aston-villa-appointment\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Birmingham City vow to &#039;vigorously pursue&#039; legal action against Alex McLeish after Aston Villa appointment - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Sam Bisby 17 Jun 2011 14:35:00 EPL : Alex McLeish, Birmingham City- Aston Villa(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Birmingham City have vowed to pursue legal action against Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish . 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