03 September 2009

Chelsea Cheaters

Not to bump Drew’s important post off the top, but this is hot breaking news on Teh Intartubes right now. Twitter is a-twitter. Shit is going down. Besides, this is Drew’s and Scott’s favourite club, so I have to rub it in.

Chelski is in some deep shit with FIFA.

Chelsea have been banned from signing any new players until January 2011 by football’s governing body Fifa.

The Premier League club was found guilty of inducing French winger Gael Kakuta, 18, to breach his contract with Lens when he joined in 2007.

“Chelsea is banned from registering any new players for the two next registration periods,” a statement on Fifa’s website read.


Ouch!

Doesn’t Carlo Ancelotti know cheating makes the Baby Jesus cry?

2 comments:

Drew said...

From the Club:

"STATEMENT ON FIFA SANCTIONS
Posted on: Thu 03 Sep 2009

Chelsea Football Club has issued the following statement:

Chelsea will mount the strongest appeal possible following the decision of FIFA's Dispute Resolution Chamber over Gaël Kakuta.

The sanctions are without precedent to this level and totally disproportionate to the alleged offence and the financial penalty imposed.

We cannot comment further until we receive the full written rationale for this extraordinarily arbitrary decision."

Thank God we just resigned Terry.

Ed said...

Bad PR statements also make the Baby Jesus cry.