DOUBLE UPDATE -  Adrian Mutu has officially filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

A CAS statement said: “Mutu requests the CAS to annul the Fifa decision and to establish that no compensation is in fact due.”

UPDATE - Instead of 9.6 Million Pound, make that 13.68 Million Pound that Adrian Mutu has to pay back to Chelsea FC after FIFA ruled in favor of the Premier Leauge Club.

‘The club can confirm that it has received the decision from FIFA’s Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) on the claim made against Adrian Mutu,’ read a statement from Chelsea. ‘Chelsea is delighted with the DRC’s decision to award the club £13.68million in compensation.’

‘This is an important decision for football. Not only did the DRC make us a very significant monetary award, the decision also recognized the damaging effect incidents involving drugs has on football and the responsibilities we all have in this area.’Chelsea will now be following the process laid out in the DRC’s decision to claim the money from Mutu.’

Ouch. I’ll say that again, Ouch.

Romanian and Fiorentina striker Adrian Mutu has been ordered to pay 9.6 Million Pound to Chelsea Football Club after a FIFA sporting tribunal judged the club was allowed to recover compensation for wages and transfer money lost when Mutu tested positive for Cocaine back in October of 2004 (the player was also handed a 7 month ban).

Beans and I have been racking our brains about this one. We can’t figure out if this is the first time a player has been forced to pay back money/damages to a club and held accountable for choices made off the field. Makes you wonder what really happened behind the scenes after this all went down.

Chelsea had initially paid 15 Million Pound to Parma in 2003.

You know you have a Huka addiction if you make yourself a traveling edition to your collection. Meet the Huka-on-the-go. My friend Jason is everything Huka and is in the starting phases of his Huka table company. I can attest he leads the lifestyle of a true connoisseurs of the Middle-Eastern pastime.

I don’t think he’ll be able to market these in California with the new laws in effect.

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UEFA has officially fined the Croatian Football Federation after it’s supporters we found guilty of “displaying a racist banner and showing racist conduct.”

Croatia has three days to appeal the $19,680 (12,500 Euros) fine.

I wish everyone could take a second out of their day and watch this.

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Real Madrid has fined midfielder Mahamadou Diarra one month’s salary (300,000 Euro) for returning late from African Nations Cup duty with Mali.  Although they didn’t even make it out of the first round, Real Madrid formally sent a letter stating he would be fined and Diarra will have ten days to respond.

With the former Lyon player already making his intentions clear about leaving since Bernd Schuster has taken over and Gago, Guti and Sneijder preferred, it’s hard to imagine who could afford such a staggering price tag that will be placed, as Madrid paid 40 million Euro for the player in 2006.

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Tank Abbott vs Kimbo Slice should be a fun one to watch, but I just wish they weren’t wearing gloves and they were in some random warehouse beating the shit out of eachother.

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The guy that knocked Dudu Aouate the f*ck out, Gustavo Munua was today given a 6 month suspended sentence as is customary on first offenses. He did however have to pay a $5,235 fine.

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Chelsea Football Club have just been fined 40,ooo pound for “Failing to control it’s players” once again. Michael Essien was sent off for bitch slapping Derby’s Kenny Miller in a 2-nil win in November. This fine followed up the 30,000 pound fine for the same offense against Man Utd in September.