It took a couple of days as the CONCACAF Disciplinary Committee considered the “serious irresponsible behaviour” of Javier Aguirre, but the final verdict sees the Mexico Head Coach handed a 3 match suspension and the FMF a $25,000 fine for the incident at the 8oth minute mark of Mexico vs Panama last Friday.
After Sky’s touchline cameraman caught Didier Drogba’s meltdown brilliance on Norwegian referee Thomas Henning Ovrebo, which could go down as one of the most classic referee rants ever captured on live television, Ofcom (The independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries) announced they have launched an investigation into the situation that could have some very interesting ramifications for not only Drogba himself, but Chelsea and the game as a whole.
You definitely won’t want to try and smuggle in beers inside Camp Nou after the State Commission Against Racism, Xenophobia and Intolerance in Sport fined Barcelona 4,000 Euro after the found three, yes THREE beer cans inside the stadium following their match against Mallorca earlier this month.
UPDATE - The English FA has officially charged Ipswich midfielder David Norris with “Improper Conduct”.
Ipswich has fined midfielder David Norris and warned him over his future conduct while the English Football Association has sent a letter wanting a written explanation over the 26 year olds goal celebration against Blackpool.
Norris appeared to make a “handcuff gesture” after his goal in an apparent show of support of Luke McCormick, his former Plymouth teammate who killed two children in a car accident while under the influence of alcohol after leaving Norris’ wedding earlier this summer in which McCormick was the best man.
UEFA has fined Glasgow Celtic 42,ooo Pound after one of their supporters found his way to the Parkhead pitch during their Group E Champions League match against Manchester United that ended in a 1 - 1 draw.
You’ve probably heard of the worst player at training given the “penny” to wear at training the next day as a badge of embarrassment and motivation, but the boys at Portsmouth have taken it to a whole nother level.
It was a costly decision to head over to the Tyneside to celebrate Newcastle’s Obafemi Martins’ 24th birthday party for Sunderland’s Djibril Cisse, El - Hadji Diouf and Pascal Chimbonda.
After an internal investigation of the trio being spotted out and about until the early hours of Friday, just 48 hours before Sunderland’s 5 - 0 loss at Chelsea, Keane laid down a financial punishment.
Via DailyMail
Keane said: ‘We hope players behave in a certain way they have had a fair hearing and its has been dealt with.’
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.
