Leeds United's Championship clash with Derby will be televised on Tuesday as planned after the club "reluctantly" allowed Sky Sports' cameras into Elland Road.
United president Massimo Cellino had intended to ban Sky from broadcasting the game in a bid to make a point about the amount of times his club have been televised this season.
Sky staff were unable to enter Elland Road on Monday, as is customary on the eve of a game, and as of 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the Italian had not relaxed his position with Sky's crew and Football League executive Shaun Harvey waiting in a car park.
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However, just before 3 p.m., Cellino -- currently in Miami -- relented, and allowed Sky in, although he signed off on a club statement which voiced unhappiness at the situation.
"The Football League regulations are supposed to be there to protect the integrity of the sporting competition, not to be used as a stick to beat the club on behalf of Sky," it read.
"Leeds United season ticket holders have had enough of these fixture changes, the players and staff have had enough, and Leeds United Football Club has had enough.
"It is to be noted that the League threaten a disrepute charge against the club. It is the League who are bringing their own competition into disrepute by unfairly prejudicing Leeds (and certain other clubs) by allowing Sky to unfairly disrupt Leeds United for their own commercial purposes."
Reached later in the day by the Daily Mirror, he said: "I'm trying to protect the club.
"I have beautiful people working with me now and beautiful players -- not overpaid as before. I have to do my job in looking after the club because nobody did it before."
Leeds' decision will be of great relief to both Sky and the league, with the former having a production crew of some 40 people on site ready to work, while the League deployed former United chief executive Harvey to search for a resolution.
Once that came, Sky's crew immediately mobilised, but there is likely to be further fallout for Cellino and the club.
Angered by Leeds' popularity with Sky Sports -- the Derby game is their 10th live screening of the season with two more planned for early in 2016 -- he has long been seeking to make a point to the game's dealmakers.
In October he said he would be capping Leeds' large travelling support at 2,000 in a bid to prove a point, only to relent after fan dissent.
Cellino -- who is waiting for the League to set a date for an appeal against a second disqualification under its Owners' and Directors' test for a tax evasion conviction -- must now wait and see what, if any, action the League take in response to these events.
When it looked as though Sky would not be allowed any access, the League said Leeds would be charged with a "full range of sanctions" available if they held out.
Leeds are currently 14th in the Championship table, and could rise to 10th with a high-scoring win over second-placed Derby, who will go one point above leaders Brighton with victory at Elland Road.