|
|
Post by Macmoish on Feb 18, 2014 15:44:25 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by sharky on Feb 26, 2014 14:53:17 GMT
From our local paper, the West Australian au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/21717204/anelka-quenelle-hearing-continues-into-second-day/Anelka 'quenelle' hearing continues into second day February 26, 2014, 7:01 pm AFPAnelka 'quenelle' hearing continues into second day London (AFP) - Nicolas Anelka's disciplinary hearing over his controversial 'quenelle' goal celebration went into a second day on Wednesday. French striker Anelka, now with English Premier League side West Bromwich Albion, faces a minimum five-match ban for making a gesture condemned in France as anti-Semitic after scoring the first of his two goals in a 3-3 draw against West Ham on December 28. However, the 34-year-old has denied the gesture was anti-Semitic and requested a personal hearing. England's governing Football Association had confirmed Monday the hearing would start Tuesday but refused to specify a location. Such hearings are often held at the FA's Wembley headquarters in London but Anelka was pictured on Sky Sports entering the Grove Hotel -- often used by the England team as a training base -- in Watford, north of London on Wednesday. Anelka was charged by the FA last month with an aggravated offence after making a gesture that was judged to be "abusive and/or indecent and/or insulting and/or improper". The aggravated breach was that it included "a reference to ethnic origin and/or race and/or religion or belief". The quenelle, described as an inverted Nazi salute, has been popularised by French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, a friend of Anelka's and who was been prosecuted in France for various racial offences. Anelka has maintained his goal celebration was an anti-establishment gesture in support of Dieudonne and that he is neither racist nor anti-Semitic. Last month, Dieudonne was banned from entering the United Kingdom after the Home Office, Britain's interior ministry, made him the subject of an exclusion order. |
|
|
|
Post by Macmoish on Feb 27, 2014 17:10:08 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Macmoish on Feb 27, 2014 18:52:18 GMT
WBAFCofficial @wbafcofficial 17m Club suspend Nicolas Anelka pending conclusion of FA’s disciplinary process and Club’s own internal investigation. #wba Expand WBAFCofficial @wbafcofficial 18m Read official WBA statement on @anelkaofficiel after both FA charges proven & he receives 5-match ban: tinyurl.com/n9w4bja #wba |
|
