Had anybody else forgotten about these?
As The Sun reports, Dele Alli and Eric Dier could yet be suspended for the restart of the Premier League season after being slapped with FA charges.
Dele was charged with misconduct after posting a Snapchat video of an Asian man and joking about the Coronavirus. That was on February 26th.
Dier was charged with improper and/or threatening conduct after jumping into the crowd to confront a Spurs fan who apparently abused his brother following the FA Cup exit to Norwich on March 4. He was charged in April.
Is there not a statute of limitations on these charges?!
Is the FA not living in the modern Zoom world?
According to The Sun, the disciplinary panel is able to meet via video call and might action the suspensions before the restart later this month. Dele could be banned for up to three games, and Dier could face a penalty too.
It is completely unfair that Jose Mourinho doesn’t yet know whether he will have these two players available for the first game back, three months after the offences took place. He could be planning a new centre-back pairing involving Dier, and working hard on a midfield system to include Dele, Giovani Lo Celso and Tanguy Ndombele, only to have the rug pulled out from underneath him because of nothing less than sheer incompetence.
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I’ve seen more than enough of dier . though he’s really really good at sneaking into space (about two metres from opposition players) he’s seems to not know his next pass so his body shape isn’t what it should be when receiving it. Can never find a good forward pass. Maybe Jose can teach him a thing or two but me as manager he wouldn’t be anywhere near my first team, or Davies and winks. Gedson for me at the moment doesn’t look like a 50 million pound player. Early days though. E eze and yousef atal please and a michel brown type player with quality. Help for Kane too obviously please. Japh though not ready yet must play in front of defenders. Luke Amos must be recalled for next season. He’s gonna surprise a few. Jack Clark mustn’t be loaned out again I want him at Hotspur way playing for our pl2 team. Jose. You must know a good young up and coming coach to bring in to manage our pl2 team. Get your black book out man. Our young keeper Alfie whiteman (Tottenham boy) needs a good loan move. He needs to play every game. I used to look after him when he was little. His mum rifat is a good friend.