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By Tony Attwood

Uefa and others have been charged with bringing the game into disrepute.

The charge relates specifically to its decision to appoint Mr Skomina of Solvakia as referee for the Arsenal Milan game and their subsequent decision to charge Mr Wenger with improper conduct after he made complaints about the referee

The charge against Uefa will be handled by Untold Arsenal and will follow exactly the same process and procedure as Uefa itself uses.  That is to say that the organisation that makes the complaint will also investigate the complaint, try the complaint, rule on the complaint and pass judgement on the complaint.  All nice and neat and taken exactly from the Uefa rule book.

Head of the Untold Arsenal Uefa complaints team, Billy “The Dog” McGraw said, “that seems fair enough to me.  Who needs an independent judiciary anyway? The North Korean model of government is good enough for Uefa so it is good enough for us.”

Billy’s investigation will consider the obvious point that the referee showed about as much ability to referee a game at the highest level as a Welsh rarebit has of speaking Welsh.  This means that his actions were either those of a gross incompetent or a man who had been bought and was acting corruptly.

The whole issue is of great interest to Bookies and

Obviously this will be a fair hearing, and we must stress that the referee is not on trial – only Uefa, but utilising their system (and that of Alice in Wonderland) we will announce the punishment prior to the hearing.

Uefa will be derided, laughed at and treated with contempt by everyone who feels like doing it, for a period of at least one year.  The people who will be concerned at these revelations will be the bookmakers who may rightly feel that some punters are now getting the better of them.

So, that’s the ruling – the trial will start shortly.  If you have any evidence that you would like to put before the tribunal, please send it in.

Meanwhile the FA and the Scottish FA are each being tried with bringing the game into disrepute in their own separate hearings.

The FA’s trial relates to its gross inability to regulate its clubs in a reasonable manner, and thus allow Portsmouth FC to go into liquidation twice within just over a couple of years, and have the club in such a mess that it looks like it might go into liquidation at any moment.  A similar charge is brought against them in relation to Port Vale.  So bizarre has the situation become that Free Bets are now being offered in some quarters.

The Scottish FA trial is much the same, in this case looking at Rangers FC.  Also on trial are the Scottish media, and those elements of the English media that ever bothered to notice that something was up at Rangers.  Evidence at the hearing will be presented to the fact that although this is an Arsenal blog with no contact with Rangers, we were talking nine months ago about Rangers being on the edge of total collapse, while the press in the north denied anything was wrong.

Of course matters at Rangers are moving faster than a flying duck bucket on heat [does that actually mean anything? – Ed.]  so details here might already be wrong, but here goes.

The administrators now say Rangers may be unable to fulfil their remaining fixtures this season, and certainly won’t play in Europe at any level next season.

They have been been unable to agree salary cuts with all the players that will preserve value in the business (the players wanted free transfers at the end of the season if they agreed to play for 25% wages this season, and so that knocks down the value of the club).

There is no agreement as to who owns a few million quid that has turned up in a bank account.

No one knows what happens if Rangers go into liquidation as there is nothing in the rule book about it.  I personally think they should apply for membership of the Scottish League division 3, but I am not sure the police would allow that.  So maybe the Conference North could have them.

Rangers case is hampered by the fact that the season ticket income for the next four years has already been sold, which means even if Rangers get through this crisis they have no income from matches.

Anyway, we do need to approach these matters seriously, so here is some evidence

On Uefa…

If we look at the Untold ref review on this match we see this… “When Arsenal committed fouls he punished them. He even got a score of 100% in the second half. But the other way round he only punished half the fouls from Milan in this game.  And then once again you have to look at the difference between both halves.  In the first half he punished almost all the Arsenal fouls and he did punish them all in the second half. But in the first half he was more easy on Milan a bit but in the second half it was frighting to see that he didn’t give 40% of the fouls from Milan!”

If that is not either incompetence or corruption then I don’t know what is.  The situation is beyond belief, and Premier League Betting is now being taken to new heights.

On the Scottish FA

Hilariously, after all this time and all this nonsense the Scottish FA have charged Rangers with bringing the game into disrepute.

Oh and it has said (again rather late one might think) that Craig Whyte, the Rangers chairman and majority shareholder, the man who sold the next four seasons worth of season tickets, is not a fit and proper person to serve within Scottish football.

Rangers’ administrators, Duff and Phelps, even more laughably, said,

“In broad terms, we believe there are mitigating factors and we hope to demonstrate the distinction between the club and the actions of any individuals.”

Meanwhile it is clear that Rangers have not submitted audited accounts for the last financial year.  And the SFA is still contemplating allegations that Rangers players held second contracts during the club’s historical use of employee benefit trusts which they told no one else about.

And if that is not enough Rangers failed to disclose to the SFA at the time of his appointment as chairman that Whyte had served a ban from being a company director between 2000 and 2007.   The SFA didn’t know.  I found out about 18 months ago when I started covering the Rangers story.  The SFA didn’t know, probably because they believed the Scottish press.

And just one more.    Rangers have been ordered to pay Dundee United £61,000 from ticket sales from a recent Scottish Cup tie or the SFA will impose further penalties.Meanwhile on 30 March the courts will start to decide whether Rangers own £3.6m found in bank account controlled by Whyte, which was seized last week.  Everyone else says the money is theirs.

I suppose at the end of this we could also put the administrators on trial for bringing administration into disrepute.  If you want to know more you could always try “Free Betting Tips”

Tony

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