Hallelujah, Warm Pouch! In my opinion you have got this spot on! Arguments will rage on about Clattenburg, and depending on who you support he will be loved or despised. I suspect if he was in a position to turn back the clock he might well do so! However, all the backbiting and sniping needs to be buried and get this issue consigned to history!
Tapping up a player is considered immoral, it isn't illegal. You should have been punished for bringing the game into disrepute. The 2nd bit of BS you've posted: “there is no evidence of any irregular payments to club officials or players, and they are identified only as a consequence of the outstanding issues the inquiry has with the agents involved”
It is forbidden in most professional sports and is punishable. So while it may not be technically illegal its not legal either and is considered corrupt/dodgy/underhand.
So Utd a Fergie are corrupt? Stam joined United for £10.6 million in 1998 but was sold to the Serie A side in 2001 after alleging that the Scot approached him illegally while he was still a PSV player in his autobiography, Head to Head. And the Red Devils boss dashed to the defender to inform him that he was to be sold, asking him if he would agree to a swift move to Italy - with which Stam went through. "I soon realised the club wanted to get rid of me. They also needed the money. Very soon the book became an issue again. It led to a conflict between me and the manager," he told theSunday Mirror. [TABLE="width: 285"] [TR="bgcolor: white"] [TD="colspan: 2, align: center"] [/TD] [/TR] [TR="bgcolor: black"] [TD="colspan: 2"]MANCHESTER UNITED LATEST [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD="width: 20%"]9/1[/TD] [TD="width: 80%, align: left"]Manchester United are 9/1 with William Hill to win the Champions League [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] "One morning I told him what I thought and left the training ground on the spot. On the way home I received a phone call in my car from Fergie's *secretary. She said that he wanted to speak to me. He came on the phone straightaway. "Ferguson said: 'Where are you?' "I said: 'Close to my house, at a petrol *station.' Ferguson said: 'Wait there!' He jumped in his car and came straight to me. "At the petrol station he parked his car and got in
 with me. He told me that I had to be transferred. Then he said: 'Will you please move to Lazio quickly?' "I agreed to do it. Right there and then. One quick *conversation in my car at a petrol station in Manchester was enough for me to leave that big club. When I think about it now, and I have never talked about it before, I find it unbelievable I let that, as a player, happen to me." Despite the manner in which events unfolded at Manchester United, Stam is keen to return to England as a manager, adding: "I am getting ready to become a manager and preparing for my Uefa pro *licence course. More than *anything I want to go and coach in England."
If hes done it Page then aye he would be corrupt. No club is innocent of corruption at some point in their history.
Yeah, but you can't go accusing Chelsea without mentioning the other clubs(including UTD)that have done it to keep parity.
UnitedinRed mkII Why is it that you have 1,562 posts and roughly 0 of them are on the Manchester United board? I would guess that 49.5% of your posts are on the Chelsea board, 49.5% on the Liverpool board and 1% everywhere else (Arsenal and general chat). Do you actually care about United or are only interested in their rivals? Why is it that you are the stereotypical portrayal of a glory hunting armchair manc **** stain?
**** me Herbert, are you known among the silks as the hanging judge? This isn't going to popular with you Spuds but please **** off back to your own board full of wonky lamps and dull as ditch water diatribe.
Just to get a bit of balance in, I was so pleased that Chavski won the Champions league last season and I think the Mata Oscar and Hazard are an awesome midfield trio. That said if the FA, as with the coppers, come out and say Clattenburg does not have a case to answer, then it looks as if the club has had a go at the ref for sending Torres off, sour grapes as it were, the ref could not be blamed for the blind lino not given offside for Manures last goal. I presume the ref can have ago at Chavski for defamation and so could probably the FA and the refs association. Will Clatter ever ref one of yours games again, what about the other refs, in a sign of brotherly solidarity are you going to find a lot of decisions go against you? Chavski, if all it did was support the players, should have had some sort of legal due diligence procedure before going ahead with the allegations, the first thing to have done is to check with the two linos and 4th official to see if they heard anything, if they said no the matter should have been dropped. Following on from the "Terry' affair Chavski really is asking for trouble.
You mean like DL did? I agree. Me though, I stated all clubs have been involved, that included United
