Fa Barclaycard Premiership News Update

Fa Barclaycard Premiership News
( 13 December 2008 )

English Premiership football News

Man Utd demand FA Evra transcript
Manchester United football want to give them the transcript of Patrice Evra of the disciplinary hearing that the club decided to appeal.

Evra was fined £ 15,000 and a set of four ban after he was found guilty of improper conduct for his involvement in the post-match Fracas in Chelsea in April.
"This is a terrible black mark against the FA," Ferguson told MUTV.

"Can you believe that we are still awaiting official confirmation of it? We asked the transcript."

Ferguson added: "They made this report to make sure it is 100% waterproof.

"Many people have been ringing in this regard because it is the most incredible decision in my time at the club.

"The FA have made a lot of things, but this is absolutely beyond me."

With the ban due to start on December 22, Evra will miss United league against Stoke and Middlesbrough, Cup third round tie against Southampton and the Carling Cup semi-final against the first step Derby.

The 27 years, the Frenchman is also back Saturday at Tottenham because of a suspension.

It would be free to return for the visit of Chelsea at Old Trafford, January 11.

Chelsea was fined £ 25,000 for not ensuring an employee conducted himself in an orderly manner at Stamford Bridge.

The FA said that the cost groundsman Saturday racial Bethell had used abusive language towards Evra after the match could not be proven.

Evra and his teammates were invited to sit at the bottom of warming, triggering the line after the last season of the 2-1 league defeat in April.

Evra, Gary Neville, Park Ji-Sung, Danny Wellbeck, John O'Shea and Paul Scholes - who is not in the match - were running on the ground in a warm-down about 30 minutes after coup final whistle when the problem was outside.

The French and Bethell were represented in a confrontation following the incident, Bethell with raising a fist toward Evra while being restrained by two staff members of Chelsea.

The FA said Bethell Evra struck on the side of the head, and the player admitted to pushing another groundsman with his chest.
by bbcnews.