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Newcastle United (and West Ham) under investigation over transfers



carteater

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Jan 1, 2014
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West Sussex
Here's a convoluted scenario... the 6th placed team finishes on 78 points, Newcastle lose both their remaining games and finish on 88 points, and are then docked 10 points. They'd knock the other team out and finish 6th on virtue of a having a higher goal difference.

I'd be mightily pissed off if I was the team that missed out because of another team breaking the rules!

But wouldn't all the teams above them move up one place so it wouldn't make a difference?

Say
Newcastle
Hudds
Reading
Fulham
Wedesday

After a deduction
Hudds
Reading
Fulham
Wednesday
Newcastle?

???
 

Bozza

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Jul 4, 2003
55,529
Back in Sussex
From The Mirror, below. If correct, it doesn't sound like a footballing related matter that could lead to a footballing penalty being imposed:

HMRC have announced that they have arrested "several men working within professional football industry for suspected income tax and national insurance fraud".
 


Wozza

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Jul 6, 2003
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hans kraay fan club

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Mar 16, 2005
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From The Mirror, below. If correct, it doesn't sound like a footballing related matter that could lead to a footballing penalty being imposed:

HMRC have announced that they have arrested "several men working within professional football industry for suspected income tax and national insurance fraud".

Not sure you can assume that, from that statement.

'Income tax and national insurance fraud' could mean paying undeclared wages (through whatever snidey 'image rights / offshore scheme / whatever, rather than brown paper bags) - basically what Swindon got demoted for.


(the authorities won't have the balls to do such a thing to Newcastle, however serious the charges, obviously)
 


Wozza

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Prob worth adding West Ham to the thread title, mods.
 

Machiavelli

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Oct 11, 2013
16,523
Fiveways
Tax evasion perhaps? HM Revenue & Customs don't mess about, they will cut through the club like a hot knife through butter.

Are you being serious? Can you provide a lengthy list of the number of businesses that the under-staffed HMRC have exposed in the last year or, just to give a bit more leeway, the last decade? What punishments have materialised as a result of such exposures?
 


theroyal

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May 11, 2014
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I remember QPR having something like this happen to them right before the end of the season, and they just about got away with it.
 

Bigtomfu

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Jul 25, 2003
4,416
Harrow
When can we get the Chesterfield giant brown envelope out again

Last I heard the giant flag had been stored in it at Withers and Her Majesties Royal Mail saw fit to post it to oblivion.

With regards the actual topic of the thread if the alleged activity saved the club money and gave them an unfair competitive advantage then potentially there could be some kind of penal football action taken?
 

Thunder Bolt

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Are you being serious? Can you provide a lengthy list of the number of businesses that the under-staffed HMRC have exposed in the last year or, just to give a bit more leeway, the last decade? What punishments have materialised as a result of such exposures?

They had enough staff to send 50 people to West Ham.

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atomised

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Mar 21, 2013
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I think the link with France could suggest something to do with transfers/players wages based on the number of French players Newcastle have employed
 

Stat Brother

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Jul 11, 2003
73,270
West west west Sussex
West Ham - The team that just don't know when to stop taking.
 

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