Grimsby fined for fielding an ineligible player in win over Man Utd

[Fauxstralian]

£10,000 fine with a further £10,000 suspended until the end of the season
Slap on the wrist with a wet fish

Still say Villa should have declined the rematch over Manny O appearing for minutes to no effect

[Gaffer58]

To be honest I think the said player was a Manure spy, although he was registered 2 minutes late, when it came to the penalty shootout he was the only Grimsby player to actually miss, in mitigation Grimsby did flag this error up to the league themselves.

[ragingbull]

Had this been a quarter-final like ours dare i say the outcome would be much different.

[Fauxstralian]

Would have had more respect for Villa as said if they’d declined the chance to play again as they’d been beaten fair & square
CUNTS
Of course in true West Ham style we lost the rematch

[Iron Duke]

Manny had previously played for Gillingham while on loan so was cup tied. All the others seem to be about getting international clearance. Grimsby registered the player 2 minutes late.

I still think our punishment was disproportionate mind. He only came on for a few minutes and made no difference to the outcome.

[Massive Attack]

Don't know the ins and outs but what's different about Mannygate to this exactly?

[Far Cough UKunt]

In October 2019 Liverpool were fined £200,000, of which £100,000 was suspended, for fielding Pedro Chirivella in an EFL Cup third-round win against MK Dons.Chirivella did not have international clearance to play in the competition, but the EFL said it "wasn't appropriate" to remove Liverpool because of "mitigating factors".


Hmmm, I wonder why the Scousers weren't lobbed out? 

Answers on a postcard please?

[Alfs]

The Manny O incident was heart breaking.

[On The Ball]

What we did was quite a lot worse than what they did, to be fair.

The list of others that have broken the rules (at the bottom of this BBC article) is interesting though - particularly the Sunderland one, which I don't remember.