Tottenham Hotspur Face Point Deduction

[vasilli07]

Tottenham Hotspur Face Point Deduction

The suggestion is that if Palacios was still a Wigan player, his ban would have finished on 31st January, but because he moved to White Hart Lane, the ban should see him cup tied for Carling Cup and FA Cup games, meaning his ban should be carried over these games.

Therefore, his fixture list should read:

Wednesday Jan 21 2009 Burnley CC (A) (cup tied)
Saturday Jan 24 2009 Manchester United FA (A) (cup tied)
Tuesday Jan 27 2009 Stoke City (H) (suspended)
Saturday Jan 31 2009 Bolton Wanderers (A) (suspended)
Sunday Feb 08 2009 Arsenal (H) (ban lifted)http://www.goal.com/en/news/699/tottenham/2009/02/01/1088647/tottenham-hotspur-face-point-deduction

This is the last thing we need...

[Funkfoot]

Crap, don't they figure this stuff out in advance?

[vasilli07]

You never know...there are always cases of clubs fielding ineligible players. Just hope it's not us.

[AudereEstFacere]

It's nothing official yet, though. It says it was posted by a Wigan fan website.

[Phillyspur]

It's nothing official yet, though. It says it was posted by a Wigan fan website.

You mean like when Burnley thought Defoe was ineligible for the CC?

[vasilli07]

Here is a spurs fan(if i'm not wrong) understanding of the ban and rules...

http://www.rivals.net/news/pgarticle.aspx?artid=13514_4882706&id=81

[mattie g]

Couple days late, but this is what the suspended players list said about Palacios before the Bolton game:

Tottenham Hotspur FC
Wilson Palacios Suazo
Start 24/01/2009
End 31/01/2009
Suspended from all football until the Club have completed 2 first team matches for 5/10/15 cautions

It doesn't matter whether he was eligible to play in those games - he was a Spurs player and the club completed these matches while he was here; therefore, he was eligible to play at Bolton on the date on which the suspension ended (Jan 31).

Besides, don't you think the Spurs front office would have checked with the FA to make double-sure he was eligible? I know a lot of people like to blame the front office for a lot of things, but this one is so simple that not even they could screw it up.