Leeds will be accused of unfortunate behavior by the Football League in the event that they forbid Sky TV from TV Tuesday's Championship amusement against Derby.

The club has banished cameras from entering Elland Road for the diversion (19:45 GMT) in challenge at the quantity of Leeds apparatuses changed for TV.

It is the ninth time a Leeds group match has been picked and proprietor Massimo Cellino feels it diminishes attendances.

Football League authorities are attempting to determine the circumstance.

Leeds, fourteenth in the Championship, have been reached by the BBC however are yet to react.

"The League has been made mindful that Sky faculty have been not able access Elland Road as already organized," a Football League representative said in an announcement.

"We have reached Leeds United to help the club to remember its commitments to our telecast accomplice and to approach them for their perceptions."

It included: "Under Football League regulations, clubs are required to give access to the League's telecasting accomplices with the end goal of setting up and taping any matches that are chosen for transmission.

"Inability to do as such will prompt a club being accused of wrongdoing with the matter being alluded to a free Football Disciplinary Commission (FDC)."

Second-set Derby have officially included in eight live broadcast recreations this season, the same number as Leeds. Derby declined to remark.

Nottingham Forest have showed up in nine, the most for any Championship club, while Preston, Brentford, Charlton, Rotherham and MK Dons have highlighted in two each.

Cellino, the previous proprietor of Italian side Cagliari, is sitting tight for a bid date to challenge a second Football League boycott for breaking its Owners' and Directors' test taking after a duty avoidance conviction in Italy.

He is in Miami, US, and won't be available at Elland Road on Tuesday and has left the implementation of his boycott with other staff.

In October, Cellino said he would restrain ticket deals to Leeds' Championship away amusements in dissent against the Football League's approach on broadcast matches - yet called it quits when the club's supporters restricted the arrangement.

Investigation

BBC Radio Leeds reporter Adam Pope

"Massimo Cellino feels the present arrangement chokes the club, the supporters and the players in their planning, logistics and attendances. He is no more peculiar to testing football's powers and needs to arrange TV rights separately, instead of as an aggregate unit.

"It is assessed that Championship clubs get about £100,000 when a home match is moved for TV as pay to cover for less fans heading off to the diversion. That sum works out at around 3,500 supporters paying a normal of £30 a ticket. It will enthusiasm to see the participation against Derby.

"The Football League has not uncovered what the potential discipline could be if Sky are not ready to broadcast the amusement, whether that be a fine or a focuses finding."

"In Italy, Cellino moved Cagliari's home amusements, so it is not strange for him to carry on like this. Leeds are unbeaten in five recreations, yet Cellino has tossed an extremely open spanner in progress.

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