Forget Dom Joly's "Trigger Happy TV", bitter Blackpool chairman in blast at departing Grayson.

Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston has strongly hit out at Leeds Unitd and Simon Grayson, following the appointment of the former Seasider's boss as the whites' new manager yesterday.

Oyston even claimed he was considering taking out an injunction to prevent Grayson from taking charge of Leeds on Friday for the first time, at home to Leicester City. However he did not do so because it is hard to "find a High Court judge at this time of year".

He has reported Leeds to the FA and decribed a compensation offer from Leeds, reportedly in the region of £200,000, as "derisory".

Oyston fumed "We have reported Leeds United to the Football League following an illegal approach for Simon Grayson and plan to take legal action against all parties,"

In a thinly veiled warning to his former boss, Oyston went on to describe Leeds as "a trigger happy bunch". He rapped "

"Simon should have left Blackpool with his head held high but it has happened this way because of the way Leeds have acted. I was very pleased to give Simon his chance and this wasn't the way I wanted it to end. Now he's gone to Leeds - and they're a trigger-happy bunch over there."

Ironically, whilst Grayson takes charge at Elland Road for the first-time, his old club will be down the road at Sheffield Wednesday with Tony Parkes and Steve Thompson in charge. However the Guardian report that Grayson may well fancy bringing the pair to Elland Road, just to rub salt in Oyston's wounds.

Oyston is the son of Owen Oyston, himself a former Blackpool chairman, publishing millionnaire and one-time actor (he apparently starred once as a barrister in TV's "Crown Court" in the 1970's). However Oyston Senior hit the headlines in 1996 when he was jailed for rape at Liverpool Crown Court.

Karl Oyston succeeded his mother Vicky as the chairman of Blackpool FC and in May this year, he claimed he was not bothered about becoming unpopular with supporters following a series of ticket-price hikes. He told BBC Radio Lancashire: "The vast majority who are critical or offensive have never even met me so it's not as a person, it's as a role.

"The odd time anything good gets said I don't take that on board either - it does not bother me."

"I don't know if it's just here or at every club, but I'm sure a lot of football chairman feel as though they're under siege and that everyone hates them.

"Whatever decision is made is minutely analysed and criticised.

"That's certainly the case here and it's been the case ever since I first arrived here when there were people marching around with coffins and banners slung from motorway bridges on the M55.

"You've got to laugh at it or else it may get you. It never gets to me, never has, never will, but you've also got to consider why people do behave like that."

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