Oh what a day, for ages I've been telling people there's corruption in the English game seeing as they keep going on about the match fixing.

Tevez and Mascherano's transfers were illegal, £5.5 million fine to West Ham but no points deducted

Perhaps now the corruption in the English game will start to be found out, because it's blatantly there! Perhaps not match fixing, but finances of clubs at the moment are so dodgy and have got to be illegal!

It was all noticeable last year as well when even a few managers said there were backhanders and illegal transfer deals, it's all coming to light now!

There is corruption in every league I believe... the thing is whether or not the federations are willing to deal with it properly. Those found guilty should take grave punishment instead of being let escape through the back door!

In this case in particular £5.5 is nothing in my view...

Not compared to point deduction that would mean a £50 million fine pretty much with the costs of relegation...

They might get relegated anyway, they're 2nd from bottom.

Corruption in the premierleague????? Surely there must be some mistake? That is the league of honesty and genlemen

In fact it's such an honest league the merda ought to play there, seeing as they are so clean

BTW What happened about that: http://www.milanfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3365 ?

Great memory

I forgot all about that, it's almost like it's been swept under the carpet

Now if it had happened in the Serie A...

What if they were at 12th or so place? Would they get a different punishment?? I don't think so...

Talking of corruption in the English game did anybody see Everton - Man United earlier?

Phil Neville, former United player, United fan and brother of United RB Gary Nevill scored the most ridiculously bad own goals.

Watch the highlights and tell me he DIDN'T mean to put that in, you can't.

FIFA will investigate whether West Ham should have been docked points over the Carlos Tevez affair.

President Sepp Blatter said football's world governing body had the power to pass a final verdict on the decision to fine West Ham £5.5million.

They could question the independent commission's punishment for the third-party agreement with MSI for the signings of Tevez and Argentina team-mate Javier Mascherano.

Several top-flight clubs are considering legal action against the Premier League over the sanction, claiming the Hammers should have been deducted points.

Blatter said: “We will look at this - and not only if we are asked, we will do it anyway.

“We will ask for the file once it has been decided how and why the decision was made.

“If we feel something was wrong in this decision then we have to open our file.”

Blatter added that a “decision would have to be taken immediately.”

But he warned that according to FIFA’s files, the transfers from Brazilian side Corinthians to West Ham had complied with international transfer regulations.

Blatter said: “We will monitor this situation very carefully. Once this it is dealt with by the league and the FA we will ask for the files and have a look because we have the right and the responsibility to see how such cases are dealt with.

“The matter is linked with a club in Brazil - Corinthians - and with the ownership of this club and the ownership of the two players.

“According to our files the transfer of Tevez was done correctly according to the international transfer of players.”

Blatter said a recent ruling by the Swiss federal court against Spanish third division side Rayo Vallecano meant FIFA did have jurisdiction over individual clubs.

He added: “The Swiss federal court has made a ruling by saying that FIFA and its associations have the right and the power to use all 14 sanctions of the disciplinary code starting with a warning and ending with exclusion of a member via relegation and deduction of points.”

In the Vallecano case, the club had been threatened with relegation if it did not pay transfer fees owed to a Brazilian club.

It claimed unsuccessfully that FIFA did not have the power to do so.

^^ This is becoming as bad as the Italian league scandal, now time for some point deductions and relegations, because there are a lot more teams who have obviously done wrong in this league!

Surely Liverpool have gained a player (Mascherano) wrongly then?

If West Ham have a points deduction, Liverpool should be kicked out of Europe for fielding Macherano!

Yeah exactly

The main arguement now though is about Tevez, they are saying if he wasn't signed properly the 1st time like proven, why was he playing after, did they open up the transfer window just for him?

Wel Tevez officially no longer plays for Corinthians, so in theory he was a free agent, I thought you could sign them at any point in the season?

P.S. Villa signed Gabor Kiraly after the transfer window had finished, if they made an exception for us, it's only fair West Ham get the same treatment.

I like everyone else outside of football have not got a clue about it, it's all speculation...

Well I suppose it's giving us something to talk about, football wouldn't be football without all of these goings on.