Bit of a weird time to post my first thread on here, but what the hell... thought this might be of interest.
After the FA announcement, and various people on twitter saying we've been "let off" or narrowly avoided a points deduction or that the FA had bottled it, I wanted to have a quick look at the charges which have been proven against us, just to see exactly what we've been found guilty / innocent of.
FA Rule E3 covers "general behaviour" and bringing the game into disrepute: it's worded in a really vague way and could conceivably relate to just about any unwanted behaviour by a club. Rule A1 of the FA Agents Regulations relates to the use of an unlicensed agent, as you'd expect.
Neither of these two rules make any reference *at all* to either 3rd party ownership or lying to the FA, which must surely mean that we're innocent of all the charges relating to both of those. It looks pretty obvious that the only two charges we got found guilty of are definitely at the very, very minor end of things.
So in case any bitter cardiff fans complain about why we weren't deducted points, despite being found guilty on some of the charges, you can tell them that's why! |  |
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