From the UK: I am editing this for space but you may read the entire article at BBC SPORTS here:
Blades must wait on appeal ruling
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Sheffield United will be kept on tenterhooks to see if their appeal against relegation from the Premier League has been successful.
Blades plc chairman Kevin McCabe says the arbitration panel hearing their challenge will deliver a verdict: "by the end of the month, maybe sooner."
United want to be reinstated after West Ham breached player ownership rules.
After the panel finished hearing the challenge, McCabe said: "It's been a very complicated case, and the panel are going away to review the evidence and submissions. All three parties had the opportunity to present their cases clearly to the panel and we look forward to the handing-down of the decision of the panel in due course. It would be inappropriate to comment further until a decision has been made."
McCabe has always been adamant the panel will rule in favour of his club over a saga that started back in March.
In that month, West Ham were found guilty by an independent committee set up by the Premier League of acting improperly and withholding vital documentation over the Argentine pair's ownership but they escaped a points deduction and Tevez was allowed to continue playing.
He and Mascherano were part-owned by a third party but the Hammers then ended that agreement, which satisfied the Premier League.
Tevez was one of the major factors in the club's late escape - scoring a goal on the final day of last season at Manchester United to help the Hammers stay up.
The Blades finished on the same number of points as fourth-from-bottom Wigan but were relegated on goal difference.
"I think the Premier League wish the arbitration was not happening," McCabe said last week. "But in the knowledge it is happening and it cannot be prevented, then if the decision is overturned we should be reselected to the Premier League.
"Since we really looked into the whys and the wherefores of the Tevez affair it became apparent that a wrong decision was made."
Well, that's it for now. All we can do is wait and see. At least the Panel is not taking this lightly.
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