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Under the hammers.

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Vincent
AuthorWells, David
PositionLetters - Letter to the editor

There was always a shroud of secrecy hanging over what happened with the contracts of Argentinian footballers Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano at West Ham United FC, with the club being fined 5.5m [pounds sterling] for breaking the Premier League's rules when it signed them at the start of the 2006-07 season. Why did Middlesbrough have three points docked in the 1996-97 season--which ended in its relegation by two points--when the club was forced to postpone a match because most of its team was sick, while West Ham was only fined? What discrepancies will clubs need to commit in the future to warrant the deduction of points?

One reason why the Premier League's initial commission investigating the Tevez affair didn't dock points from West Ham was that such a deduction was considered to be an unfair punishment to impose on the club's new owners, who had arrived after the two players in question. But documents were presented in the High Court on August 2, 2007. appearing to show that West Ham had entered a second agreement with Media Sports Investments, the company that owned Tevez and Mascherano, after the club's new owners had taken control.

The eventual disclosure of the truth about the contracts of Mascherano and Tevez--who scored a number of vital goals in West Ham's successful fight to avoid relegation--came too late for Sheffield United...

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