Blades invoke FA arbitration process over Tevez affair

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The Blades have informed the FA they intend to take the dispute over the Carlos Tevez affair to their arbitration panel.

Ongoing: the Carlos Tevez controversy

The club have already lost a Premier League arbitration hearing and were refused leave to appeal against that in the High Court.

West Ham, who have 14 days to respond, will challenge Sheffield United's right to now go to an FA arbitration hearing.

If it is decided that there will be another arbitration hearing, each club will be able to nominate one person to sit on the three-man panel.

They will then either agree on a third person to chair the panel or if they are unable to do that then the FA will appoint the chairman instead.

Sheffield United claim they are due compensation for being relegated because West Ham should have been docked points over the Tevez saga.

They have estimated the cost of their relegation at between £30million and £50million.

The Hammers have slammed Sheffield United's intention to sue them for the cost of relegation as "desperate".

The Blades are suing over a breach of contract and claim to have evidence which proves West Ham "misled" an independent disciplinary commission by failing to disclose vital information relating to their arrangement with Tevez's adviser Kia Joorabchian.

The Hammers said long before the disciplinary hearing they had made the Premier League "fully aware" of the agreement in question.