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Pompey to be named and shamed

Pompey - along with 4 other Premiership clubs - are to be 'named and shamed' according to early reports in the mighty Daily Mirror today.

The findings of Lord Stevens' 14 month inquiry are 'understood' to have found Pompey - with Boro and Newcastle a couple of other clubs named - guilty of breaching transfer regulations. The Premier League are now said to be preparing a joint inquiry with the FA with a compliance unit heading up the next stage of the process.

Where this leaves Pompey, I do not honestly know but I am not overly concerned really - that is not in a sense that I do not care concerned, just to clarify.

It has been confirmed - as much as anything the Mirror says can be confirmed - that no formal charges will be brought today though.

Willie Mckay - an agent Pompey fans will know well - is one of several agents in the spotlight. Pompey, Newcastle and Boro all have, or have had players playing for them who are under his representation.

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Writer: pompeyrug

Date:Friday June 15 2007

Time: 9:54AM

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Most of the top agents dealing with the top players & top clubs have some grey areas. Somebody has to be seen to get their wrists slapped to justify the time & cost of the enquiry. Can't imagaine any harsh penalties as much a case of don't do it/get caught again. Since when is any business deal where £m+ involved been whiter than white?

storagematt

Storagematt, I would not be so sure. With the furore over the Tevez affair I would expect to hear large protests from the likes of West Ham, Sheff United and Wigan if the clubs don't get hit with a huge fine or points deduction. A nervous summer ahead.

bluedr

I wouldn't even use the Mirror to wipe my backside with, they tell almost as many lies as the Sun and Express do, only with less pictures. Journalistic scum cannot resist a chance to stick the knife into us - we're like Millwall, nobody likes us but we don't care!!!

TruePompeyBlue

i see what you are both saying and i am sort of half and half at the moment... after the tevez affair people could be made examples off, so we - along with the others lets not forget - could well be the ones... on the other hand depending on the severity of these 'rule breaches' you have an argument of how can one get away with one thing, but we get punished for this... it was always likely to be an interesting summer - it could now also turn into a nervously interesting summer...

pompeyrug

...as I have said before over the Tevez affair, had it been us then we would have had 10 points deducted plus those gained in matches he featured in, plus a £5million fine.

Wait for it to happen, we'll get stuffed by the incompetent, incontinent, inconsistent dead wood fossils at the FA, mark my words we'll get hit.

TruePompeyBlue

TruePompeyBlue, from the way i have written it you can see i try to point out that the mirror do not always - if ever - tell the truth... i will just see what happens myself, i will not believe too much - but at the same time i would not totally write it off myself just yet incase...

pompeyrug

..and another point - these transfer "irregularities" seem to be quite a feature in all deals that have been arranged by the Chief Exec. This was during the times under Milan as well, so does anybody else see some sort of common pattern emerging here? Harry often moans about us missing out on players whilst the hierarchy faff about over insignificant transfer details and we often wonder why too.

Your thoughts?

TruePompeyBlue

TPB, but would we have really? i would think that west ham are not liked too much either, so for them not to have been punished would have made it happening to us the same possibility wouldn't it?

pompeyrug

Yes I'm sure of it Rug, when you have the likes of that wing-nut Gary Lineaker and his yes men bum chums on MOTD constantly running us down it soon spreads to other areas. We've always had bad press apart from the time when we won the First Div - then they were like leeches all over us and that really did stink. I have a very dim view of the media and the way it works, which is odd considering my background and involvement in the industry!

TruePompeyBlue

i know what you are saying - obviously not literally in the sense that i have a background like you, as i dont - and i know that the motd fellas and that dont much like us but i would say this applies to most, maybe even all of the other clubs outside of the top 4 and selected favoured ones or even one - spurs?

pompeyrug

..and don't forget Leicester. Big Ears still loves them, and their monopolising crisp industry!

TruePompeyBlue

If any teams coaching/management staff were to be found guilty surely this is both an FA and a Police matter as the real issue will be money laundering (is it not?) does this mean that like in Business (when you are then banned from running or being associated with running a business), they can be stopped from working in football or with a football club? Does anyone know if this is a true implication? As if it is could clubs potentially lose managers and chairman??????? Because after all is this not just more of a government plan to ensure that tax is being paid on these sometimes supposedly vast sums?

Sachas_Brother

Sorry that last statement was more of a question, so if anyone knows the answer...........!

Sachas_Brother

Actually it is fraudulent accounting, and yes anybody found doing it can be barred from a directorship of a business. the investigation can go back to 6 years. TruePompeyBlue get the wagons out of the circle mate cos I think the anti Linekar thing basically,.. to put it diplomatically COMPLETLY AND TOTALLY MISSES THE POINT !!! Once again pompey HAVE PUT THEMSELVES in the papers for A LACK OF PROFESSIONALISM in off the field activities. I have been ranting about this before i new you existed, we continually harm our selves. Now as you know i have friends in media street including someone from the mirror (who by the way swears that they lie less than the sun, the express and says the daily mail is the worst) that we will probably escape major sanction as it seems an agent issue and regards cooperation with the enquiry where the club have been forth coming. But once again people are querying the way our club is run.

russellm

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