Had Lowe not, over the years, decreased and not decreased SLH's non-football business he might have been able to swing it. The League is a club of members and every club makes up it's own rules which the state usually does not legislate against. eg 'Gentlemen only' clubs does not have to admit females. A court would rule that it is the perogative of the FL to make it's own rules, which members must abide by. (I bet Lowe belongs to a London Club, so he should know how Club rules work.) Lowe has been very naaive and foolish as well as incompetent.