' Neil Warnock denys any wrong doing '

Cardiff City boss Neil Warnock has rejected claims made in Parliament by MP Damian Collins.


Warnock said: " These allegations are completely and utterly false.

Monday 17th October 2016

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The Conservative MP used Parliamentary Privilege to repeat allegations made by Crystal Palace midfielder Jason Puncheon regarding Warnock's time as manager at Selhurst Park.

Puncheon subsequently apologised and was fined by the FA.

Warnock said: " These allegations are completely and utterly false.

"The FA Commission considered all of the evidence in detail in 2014 and it found that the allegations which were published about me were unfounded. Any suggestion that the FA failed to investigate this matter is simply untrue.

"In fact, Mr Puncheon apologised to me and removed the allegations from his Twitter account. The FA fined him £15,000 and he was warned as to his future conduct.

"I am disappointed that these allegations have been repeated after Mr Puncheon’s apology and after the FA investigated fully. If anyone had asked me the truth before publication, I would have pointed them to the FA website, where the facts are all easily accessible."


A group of MPs earlier heard how Puncheon claimed Warnock made players pay him in return for selection in his team.

Directing questions to the FA's head of strategy, Robert Sullivan, and FA chairman Greg Clarke, Mr Collins said: "In January 2014 it was reported that Jason Puncheon the Crystal Palace player made allegations on Twitter regarding Neil Warnock - his former manager.

"The tweets have been deleted but they are available online and I'll read out the relevant bit. He said 'What I won't accept is an opinion from a man who's crooked and ruining the game. The man who signs players, gives them extra wages and appearance bonuses to make sure they pay him to get into the team or on the bench. The fact that he can even talk about training is shocking. He was never there.'"

Mr Collins went on to question Mr Clarke and Mr Sullivan: "Did anyone speak to him [Puncheon] to follow up on the quite serious allegations that he made?"

Mr Sullivan responded: "I am not party to the operational conversation between him and the investigations team. So I do not know that."

Mr Collins then said: "I'd be interested to know, I think it would be pretty poor, it would be another example of where someone has gone public and made an allegation, in this case about Neil Warnock. You'd think if the FA has got this in-house resource of former police officers who could investigate these things, what they would do is they would probably have a conversation with this player and say 'why have you made this allegation? Privately, can you explain your position to us?'"

Mr Sullivan responded: "That's absolutely correct. I think where the line is difficult to draw is bringing forward real evidence that can actually be used to take an investigation forward. Because there are comments that are made on social media and there is actual hard evidence that investigations team can actually use to bring forward a case."

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Makes a change most of the players wont play unless they get more money at least these wanted to play ha ha

Makes a change most of the players wont play unless they get more money at least these wanted to play ha ha

I bet some of our players were thinking of starting their own "play" fund.

Not sure if its lazy journalism or whatever, but the tabloids are making out as if Puncheon made those comments about Warnock whilst he was his current manager.

From the Mirror - Jason Puncheon made the claim in a series of tweets he posted in January 2014 following criticism from his then Crystal Palace manager Warnock after missing a penalty against Tottenham.

Warnock wasn't Palace manager at the time - Pulis was. Warnock sued Puncheon over the comments, but later dropped the case when Palace appointed him 8 months later. They got along quite well during Warnocks spell at Palace.

Not sure if its lazy journalism or whatever, but the tabloids are making out as if Puncheon made those comments about Warnock whilst he was his current manager.

From the Mirror - Jason Puncheon made the claim in a series of tweets he posted in January 2014 following criticism from his then Crystal Palace manager Warnock after missing a penalty against Tottenham.

Warnock wasn't Palace manager at the time - Pulis was. Warnock sued Puncheon over the comments, but later dropped the case when Palace appointed him 8 months later. They got along quite well during Warnocks spell at Palace.

Why don't you fuck-off and catch some Pokemon, I hear there are some rare ones on the M4. I imagine that you are featured in the latest BBC documentary about Swansea's well publicised drug problems - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0 ... gone-wrong

Maybe you should do a film sequel called 'From A Jack To A King Back To Jacking'.

Prick.

Don't really understand how politicians have the right to say whatever they want in this instance and can not be sued. If there's risk of been sued then surely there's a doubt on whether what they're saying is accurate!!!

I could say you have had sex with a horse..... I have no evidence but you did it!!! This is a farce and should not even be published!!! Politicians are a disgrace!

http://search.thefa.com/search?q=Jason+ ... 3&entqrm=0

Don't really understand how politicians have the right to say whatever they want in this instance and can not be sued. If there's risk of been sued then surely there's a doubt on whether what they're saying is accurate!!!

I could say you have had sex with a horse..... I have no evidence but you did it!!! This is a farce and should not even be published!!! Politicians are a disgrace!

Parliamentary privilege is fine as long as it isn't abused, I think if allegations are without evidence then the privilege should be withdrawn and the mp be treated as anyone else in the public eye would be.