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West Ham fined £5.5m
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Pitty, although not a fan, I've always quite liked West Ham.
Also, if Tevez is allowed to play another minute of Premiership football this season, it'll be bullshit.
Yeah, I'm sure their billionaire owner will be rummaging down the back of his sofa as we speak.
Touche...
Spot on, it brings into question the AFC Wimbledon issue. I said then that I would hold counsel until this decision had been made and I'm not surprised with the outcome here.
£5m. Big fine, but they could still stay up and that is just wrong when they have fielded an ineligable player.
If West Ham save their necks I suspects the fans of the team going down in its place might certainly have something to say about it.
How must Bury feel about this too...
Typicla fucking FA TBH - one rule for the Prem and one for the smaller clubs. Having said that, don't get me started on the Conference and Scarborough...
Last game of the season was a loser goes down game against Dundee, and Kachloul crossed the ball right onto their strikers head for the goal that kept them up.
They pussied out of docking them points too.
TBH I think West Ham are doomed anyway, not the point though.
What happened with AFc Wimbledon?
TBH, I think a points deduction would've hurt more than a fine.
Irony is that they fell down on an obscure law rather than something quite so blatant.
For the Premier League to use the "West Ham might get relegated" excuse is a cop out. It didn't worry them when Middlesborough had a flu outbreak and cancelled a game. It didn't worry the football league when the punished Rotherham - who are now relegated... this is just another bottled decision.
From the BBC Website:
i think west ham should be docked half the points they got with tevez playing, or 15 points, whichever is greater. and then still have to pay the £5.5m fine.
the premiershit bottled it because west ham = london = good and wigan = northern = shit. west ham may stay up through blatant cheating, and thats just typical of the cocksuckers at the fa. middlesbrough (dirty northerners too) were relegated for something far more trivial.
whelan wont stand for it.
Crawley Town, Farnborough and AFC Wimbledon are not nothern towns are they?