| Not another points deduction? Leeds have pleaded guilty to a Football Association charge of using an unlicensed agent and may receive another points deduction in the process. |
Although the club have stressed that no payment is alleged to have been made to the agent involved, Luton Town were this season docked 10 points by the FA for breaching agent payment regulations. |
A statement on the club's official website, leedsunited.com, read: "Leeds United can confirm that the club has pleaded guilty to the Football Association charge for using an unlicensed agent in respect of the transfer of Anthony Elding from Stockport County in January 2008.
"The club has requested for a personal hearing and no further comment will be made, other than we would like to re-iterate the fact that no payment has been made or is alleged to have been made to the agent involved in respect of the transfer."
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Leeds have admitted using an unlicensed agent over the transfer of Antony Elding from Stockport in January. The FA hit them with a charge last week and Leeds have pleaded guilty. In a statement issued today on the official club website, Leeds said: "Leeds United can confirm that the club has pleaded guilty to the Football Association charge for using an unlicensed agent in respect of the transfer of Anthony Elding from Stockport County in January 2008. "The club has requested for a personal hearing and no further comment will be made, other than we would like to re-iterate the fact that no payment has been made or is alleged to have been made to the agent involved in respect of the transfer." Reading between the lines, Leeds will obviously go to the FA cap in hand, holding our hands up and asking for leniency on the grounds that the un-named "Mr Fixit" did not receive any fee for his services. Whether that makes any difference to the stone-hearted FA buffoons remains to be seen. Unlikely as many of them still have not forgiven Don Revie for his dalliance in the middle-east in 1978! So forgive us for fearing the worse, after all Luton were deducted 10-points at the beginning of this season after admitting a similar charge. Points deductions for us seem to be as commonplace as wet-summers these days and if our worse fears are confirmed, then it will be the THIRD season in a row that Leeds have been docked points! In 2006/07 we were docked ten points for going into administration and in 2007/08, we started the season on minus 15 points for breach of the football leagues policy on insolvency. We really are the laughing stock of the football league, a once proud giant languishing in the third-tier of English football with no light whatsoever at the end of the tunnel. We can only glance enviously across the Pennines at our old mates at Manchester City, who have been bought out in spectacular fashion by a wealthy Arab family - good luck to them! We pray for the day when something simlar happens to us, but it won't! It never does, we are stuck with Ken Bates. Bates can sue me if he wishes, but what sort of Muppet's are running this club? It seems ridiculously elementary to make this kind of mistake. I remember after the George Graham bungs-scandal in the 1990's, the rules were tightened up on "Mister Ten Percenters!" For Christ sake, it weren't as if Elding did any bloody good whilst he was here. He has since moved on to Crewe, who ironically are our opponents next Saturday? |