OUTRAGED Chelsea stars have given sworn statements
claiming John Obi Mikel WAS racially abused by ref Mark Clattenburg.
They are prepared to give evidence to the FA inquiry set up to
investigate the accusations after the 3-2 defeat by Manchester United.
The
statements were taken from several senior players at the club’s
training ground yesterday when they reported for a warm-down. It is also
alleged Clattenburg called Juan Mata ‘a Spanish t**t.’
The row
took a further twist last night when the Metropolitan Police became
involved after the Association of Black Lawyers reported the incident as
a “racially-aggravated offence” against Mikel and Mata. Police chiefs
will now have to decide whether a criminal offence was committed by
Clattenburg.
FA chiefs are determined to deal with the explosive
allegations as a matter of urgency after being accused of dragging their
feet over the John Terry case.
It took an independent commission an
agonising 11 months to finally suspend the Chelsea captain for four
games and fine him £220,000 for racially abusing QPR’s Anton Ferdinand.
Clattenburg,
37, has already been left off the list of appointments for this
weekend’s Premier League fixtures. And he is unlikely to take charge of
another game until the matter has been resolved.
The game’s
governing body launched the inquiry last night after receiving an
‘extraordinary incident report’ from Clattenburg and a further report
from match delegate Nick Cusack.
Chelsea have accused Clattenburg
of using ‘inappropriate language’ to two of their players. Nigerian
international Mikel is convinced he was racially insulted by Clattenburg
and stunned the Chelsea dressing room when he repeated the words he
believed had been used to him.
When it was then claimed that one
of the club’s Spanish players, believed to be Mata, was also insulted by
the ref, chairman Bruce Buck and chief executive Ron Gourlay were both
summoned.
It is understood that at least three players aside from
Mikel, including Brazilian Ramires, have stated they heard Clattenburg’s
comments.
Boss Roberto Di Matteo was accompanied by Mikel when
he confronted Clattenburg with the allegations in the referee’s room
after the match.
And it was only after two hours of discussions with
the players to establish the full facts that Chelsea decided to proceed
with their official complaint.
Referees’ union Prospect declared: “We are committed to helping to eradicate racism in football and in society generally.
“In
the context of that commitment, Prospect is offering full support to
Mark Clattenburg in relation to the allegations made against him.”
Wednesday 31 October 2012
Topic: BREAKING NEWS : Oyo State Gov's wife, arrested in the UK with £400,000 cash
BREAKING NEWS :Oyo State governor's wife, Florence Ajimobi arrested in the Uk by Metropolitan Police for being in possession of £400,000 on her 52nd trip to UK, in 17months.
Junketing wife of the Oyo State governor, Chief (Mrs) Florence Ajimobi, has finally jumped into the net of London police authorities. Her offence: she was found in possession of Pound Sterling and United States Dollars totalling N500million about two weeks ago. Mrs Ajimobi was arrested by the Met Police during her 52nd trip outside Nigeria in the last 17 months that her husband became the chief executive of the Pace-Setter state. The development came barely a few months after Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State was arrested also in London on money laundering charges and was held for about 26 days in the United Kingdom. Governor Abiola Ajimobi has equally been out of the country for about 42 times on personal and official trips that have cost the people of the state fortunes in estacode and denied them the opportunity of a responsible government during times of sorrow, like the August 26, 2011 flood disaster that ravaged the state.
The governor’s wife was held for a few days in London before she telephoned her husband who immediately flew out to the United Kingdom to save his wife and his administration from the embarrassment that the arrest could cause. NEWSLEAK gathered that the governor had to stand surety for his wife before she was temporarily released the weekend on her arrest. To ensure that the news does not get to public domain, Governor Ajimobi had to lie that he was travelling to Taiwan for “an emergency business trip”, and headed for London to stand surety for his wife. Met police authorities accept the surety-ship of a sitting high profile government official in cases of money laundering without which Mrs Ajimobi would have been declared wanted and Interpol sent after her. When Mrs Ajimobi returned to Nigeria two Sundays ago, she avoided public gathering, never honoured any invitation and cancelled all previous appointments.
To wriggle out of money laundering and sundry charges against Mrs Ajimobi, her husband has engaged the service of three Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) led by Chief Wole Olanipekun. Following the expiration of the week-long bail granted Mrs Ajimobi to prepare her legal team as the case will be charged t court soon, she left the country for London early on Sunday, October 28 (that is yesterday). Governor Ajimobi, it was scoped, has been running from pillar to post for face-saving strategies against the damning incident. He was said to have expressed determination to pay any price quoted by anyone that could be of help in preventing the scandal from becoming public knowledge as well as getting the “greedy wife” off the hook.
The governor, will be travelling out of the country this week to stand by her wife. It was also gathered that the senior lawyers are on their way out of the country for the legal fireworks in defence of Mrs Ajimobi.
[1] 2 Topic: [Photos & Video] Banky W, Wizkid, Skales, ShayDee... Shoot "Sun Mo Mi" Video
Leading Music Group Empire Mates Entertainment shot the video for their
Sun Mo Mi single which was released off their recently released Empire
State of Mind album.
The video was directed by Clarence Peters. Appearances by Banky W, Wizkid, Skales, Shaydee, Niyola, IceBerg Slim & many more.
The video was directed by Clarence Peters. Appearances by Banky W, Wizkid, Skales, Shaydee, Niyola, IceBerg Slim & many more.
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