Source: PA
Boyle fires bailiffs warning to Bluebirds
Motherwell chairman John Boyle warned Cardiff "the bailiffs are coming" after failing to recover £175,000 owed for the transfer of Paul Quinn.
Moments after Cardiff announced they had signed Craig Bellamy on a season-long loan deal, Motherwell sent the Welsh club a statement warning that they were considering a number of legal options.
A petition issued by Motherwell against Cardiff was heard at Hamilton Sheriff Court on Friday but the Fir Park club say City officials did not submit a defence and have not given any "business-like response" to their appeals.
Boyle said: "We've been put off, fobbed off and messed around since January.
"We have been respectful and persistent but we had no other option but to take Cardiff to court on Friday and they didn't even bother to turn up.
"How cynical can it be that a club can be signing a raft of high-profile, expensive players when they owe a small club like us over £200,000? It is quite simply a disgrace. It is utterly cynical, disingenuous in the extreme."
