League Championship side Leeds United Owner Massimo Cellino "could soon face an unprecedented charge of misconduct from the Football League that may end his troubled stay at Elland Road," according to Charles Sale of the London DAILY MAIL. With Cellino bankrolling the Yorkshire club to the tune of £40M ($64M), "there would be a danger of Leeds going out of business if the Italian is forced out." The League’s board, which met this week, has "lost patience with the Cellino camp over the long delay in receiving the written reasons why Cellino was found guilty by a Sardinian court of evading import tax duty on his yacht." The view of the FL directors is that Cellino and his representatives "are involved in withholding the six-page judgement by Sardinian judge Dr Sandra Lepore." Lepore’s findings "are reported to say Cellino acted with ‘elusive intent’" in evading the £305,000 ($490,000) duty when his boat The Nelie moored in Cagliari. That "would be enough to deem Cellino to have acted dishonestly, and so fail the League’s owners and directors test" (DAILY MAIL, 10/11).
