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Given that they have previous should the club/fans be requesting that the FA intervene in the ongoing Stones scenario. If the club do nothing it will be a statement in itself!
Chelsea in tapping-up probe
Ken Ferris
Thursday 31 August 2006 23.55 BST
Chelsea will be the subject of a joint Football Association and Premier League inquiry into allegations made by Leeds United that three of their academy players were tapped up by the London club last season, with two of them eventually heading south to sign.
Roman Abramovich's club were fined £300,000 in June 2005 and docked three points - suspended - by the Premier League for tapping up Arsenal's left-back Ashley Cole, who was fined £75,000, as was Chelsea's manager Jose Mourinho.
The Leeds chairman Ken Bates reported Chelsea to the FA on August 2 this year over alleged illegal approaches to his club's players, claiming that they made illegal approaches to Tom Taiwo and Michael Woods when attempting to sign Daniel Rose from the Championship club.
"We have considerable and great weight of evidence to demonstrate quite clearly, without a shadow of doubt, that Chelsea behaved consistently aggressively in stealing these two players from Leeds United," Bates said at the time. "It is not a question of punishing Chelsea for this latest breach. It is a question of stopping them doing it in the future."
The FA said it would separately considering a complaint by Chelsea against Bates over public comments made about the club's directors and management. Chelsea claimed their former owner had brought the game into disrepute by making "rude, insulting and inappropriate comments" when accusing the club of making illegal approaches to his players.
The statement on August 17 added that Bates had made a reference to the Stamford Bridge directors that was "discriminatory . . . in terms of race, nationality and religion". Reuters
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2006/aug/31/newsstory.sport7
Chelsea in tapping-up probe
Ken Ferris
Thursday 31 August 2006 23.55 BST
Chelsea will be the subject of a joint Football Association and Premier League inquiry into allegations made by Leeds United that three of their academy players were tapped up by the London club last season, with two of them eventually heading south to sign.
Roman Abramovich's club were fined £300,000 in June 2005 and docked three points - suspended - by the Premier League for tapping up Arsenal's left-back Ashley Cole, who was fined £75,000, as was Chelsea's manager Jose Mourinho.
The Leeds chairman Ken Bates reported Chelsea to the FA on August 2 this year over alleged illegal approaches to his club's players, claiming that they made illegal approaches to Tom Taiwo and Michael Woods when attempting to sign Daniel Rose from the Championship club.
"We have considerable and great weight of evidence to demonstrate quite clearly, without a shadow of doubt, that Chelsea behaved consistently aggressively in stealing these two players from Leeds United," Bates said at the time. "It is not a question of punishing Chelsea for this latest breach. It is a question of stopping them doing it in the future."
The FA said it would separately considering a complaint by Chelsea against Bates over public comments made about the club's directors and management. Chelsea claimed their former owner had brought the game into disrepute by making "rude, insulting and inappropriate comments" when accusing the club of making illegal approaches to his players.
The statement on August 17 added that Bates had made a reference to the Stamford Bridge directors that was "discriminatory . . . in terms of race, nationality and religion". Reuters
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2006/aug/31/newsstory.sport7
