Somebody grab a wet fish and paint IRONY on it ready for Neil Warnock....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/mar/09/qpr-fa-charges-alejandro-faurlin1
The course of this season's Championship title race could be dramatically altered if the runaway leaders Queens Park Rangers are docked points after being charged with seven serious breaches of Football Association rules.
The FA has alleged that QPR fielded a player, the Argentinian midfielder Alejandro Faurlin, for a full season in 2009-10 while his registration was not owned by the club but by a third party. That, the FA alleges, breached the rule introduced in July 2009 following the Carlos Tevez affair, which prohibited English clubs from fielding players owned wholly or in part by third‑party interests.
West Ham United were fined £5.5m by an independent Premier League commission in 2007 for breaching regulations when signing Tevez, a decision widely criticised as not severe enough because West Ham were not docked points. By a twist of fate the manager of Sheffield United, who went down in 2006-07 and then sued West Ham because the latter had stayed up with Tevez's help, was Neil Warnock, now manager of QPR. At the time Warnock argued publicly that West Ham should have been docked points.
The verdict from the FA is due on Friday - rumours already circulating of a 15 point deduction, which would put them in a playoff position only.
Ive obvious had an intrest in this case and the degree in variation between newspaper reports is unreal. I am very confident there will be no points deduction.
Because a points deduction should only take play if we had an unfair advantage but Faurlin was Legible to play at all times due to the FA sacftioning the paperwork. It was also not this season it happened (year before) so Warnock was not even at the club at the time.
There are several key FACTS
Faurlin was eleigible to play from day 1 THE FA allowed the transfer and the paperwork was completed correctly.
The AGENT was FIFA registered just not FA registered at the time (Same agent as Gareth Baile)
These are the 2 major charges the rest are minor relating to the administration of his renewed contract.
If there was any points deduction it would be VERY harsh and almost unjustifiable
THe report saying 15 points is just made up, Shaun Curtiss of the Sun admited this after we had thew backpage on Friday kept backtracking and saying worst case scenario blah blah blah. This report also quoted an FA insider which could bring the whole case to its knees no decision should have been made until the evidence is heard so im certain the QPR legal team are all over that hence why the FA released at statement saying there was no quote from them rubbishing the sun story.
To be fair it will open a can of worms it it did happen We are one of the wealthiest clubs in the world and im almost cetain will have the best legal team in the world on this. The FA wont want a lenghty appeal delaying the playoffs nor will they want the team that missed out on the play offs mnounting a legal bid due to them missing out etc etc.
Remember none of this happened this season and QPR have won the championship this year fair and square and myself like thousands of others have been celebrating be champions this season and will continue to do so despite bull**** newspaper reports.
And an on another note Neil Warnocks 7th Promotion as a Manager, has to be on of the best English managers in the game thats for sure !!
See you at Anfield next season Jam Man ( although history suggests we dont have a great record there)
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