The Football League Chief Executive has dismissed it vowing to move on, but has an Ofcom ruling this week has brought events of 2010 back to haunt Shaun Harvey?

The Ofcom ruling concerned the behaviour of Yorkshire Radio and the long standing, on going saga between the club's former owners and ex director Melvyn Levi. Three years ago over Christmas 2010, the club were keen to serve legal papers on Mr Levi but their legal representatives were unable to locate the former director at his home, his wife truthfully stating that he was away.

Mr Harvey then "authorised" six broadcasts on the club's Yorkshire Radio station urging fans to look for Mr Levi and I believe a reward of something like a meal for two was on offer for the lucky fan able to locate his whereabouts.

Last year, Leeds were ordered to pay the Levi's £10,000 in compensation relating to comments made about Mr Kevi by former chairman Ken Bates in his programme notes about Mr Levi, in which Judge Sir Charles Gray described as "riddled with material inaccuracies".

The bill however soared as Leeds were ordered to pay the Levi's Legal costs.

It's not the first time Ofcom have criticised Yorkshire Radio, which is now of course defunct, the current club owners GFH Capital pulling the plug on it before the start of the current season. Earlier this year Ofcom criticised a broadcast about Leeds United Supporters Club Chairman Gary Cooper. The trust had a poor relationship with the Bates regime and the ex Leeds Chairman was criticised for having "unwarrantably infringed" Mr Coopers privacy by revealing how many Leeds matches he had actually ended, allegedly to undermine his credentials as a regular match goer at Elland Road.

Harvey left Leeds in July to take up his new role at the Football League, he told the Guardian that he believed it was "...in everyone's best interest to move on." Mr Cooper however was not so dismissive, questioning Harvey's appointment by saying "I find it astonishing that the Football League decided Shaun Harvey is the best person they could find for a position of such authority."

As for Bates, he described the Ofcom ruling as "much ado about nothing".

Interestingly Mr Bates is setting up a radio station above a sandwich shop on Elland Road called "Radio Yorkshire", lets hope the ruling gives him some insight into how Ofcom regulate broadcasts particularly as he won't have the football club coffers to hand to pay his compensation bills and legal fees!

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