APPENDIX 9
Letter to the Chairman of the Committee
from Mr Michael Simons
NEW NATIONAL STADIUM
It was not until the other day that I first
became aware that you are the Chairman of the Committee who is
investigating issues surrounding the place and cost of the new
National Stadium.
I do not understand why there is so much deceit
and paranoia on the part of the southerners, who seem hell-bent
on having the stadium built at Wembley come-what-may.
In August 2001 this was the topic of a discussion
on a Midlands TV programme and viewers were asked to send in their
observations. I enclose a copy of my e-mail of 9 August 2001 which
I hope is self-explanatory (see annex). As yet, everyone has conveniently
forgotten the fact that if Maggie Thatcher's gang had come up
with the money required in the mid-1970's you would not be chairing
a committee investigating these issues. I hope that there is enough
time for you to require the FA or FL to produce to your committee,
copies of all of the documentation that must exist relating to
the circumstances in which they choose to take up the offer from
Notts County Council to built the National Stadium 120 miles from
Charing Cross.
As an individual who has spent most of his working
live doing battles in civil litigation, I recall and convey to
you one of the earliest pieces of wisdom given to me by my senior
principal: if only you can get you hands on all of the relevant
documents, you will not need a trial Judge to decide the issues,
it will be self-explanatory from the documents the client has
not troubled himself to find and hand over to you. How right he
was.
I hope it is not too late for you to Order the
FA or FL to produce your Committee all correspondence, agreements
and internal memos relating to:
1. its decision to build the national
stadium at Annesley, Nottingham
2. the efforts it made to raise the
required finance
3. the correspondence and the agreement
whereby it claims it has to hold FA cup finals at Wembley for
a 20 year period. You will see whether or not this agreement was
entered into before or after it invited submissions from interested
parties for the building of a new national stadium. Letters written
by the FA or FL to its members, agendas and minutes must exist.
When there is evidence of admitted deceit, you are justified in
delving further into the realms of credibility.
30 May 2002
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