Paul Parker was talking to a load of @#$% to Alex Chick / Eurosport

-- 34. I agree Parker's comments are generall rubbish but I don;t think you can accuse him of deliberately singling out West Ham. Unless you know of another premier league club whose Icelandic owner is facing severe financial distress because of the impending bankruptcy of his entire country? I understand banks in Iceland are being told to sell all overseas assets. There is no other case of anything like this - anywhere...

-- 33. If you do a search in it you will find plenty of info. I found a great article on it the Belfast Telegraph just the other day myself. Basically the Premier League Commission fined them for two things. Firstly playing players whose control rested in the hands of third parties (about 2.5m) and secondly I think about 3m for lying and covering it up.

It quotes the Legal and commercial director as stating he was not even aware of the rule they were fining them under - Eh?

The Prem Lg Comm relied on the verbal assurances of the club up to the point it was discovered and then banned them from fielding the players. It also states, somewhat vaguely, that the club later came to an agreement with the PremLgComm to play Tevez and Mascherano in the remaining games.

My guess is that the agreement was that if pressed they would agree to arbitration with any relegated club. i.e. Sheffield. The FA were less than useless in this.

Good to see the football league are upholding the time honoured system ofpenalising clubs for playing ineligable players - Poor old Mansfield get docked 2 points per game - If only they'd played Tevez and Mascarano instead, they'd be top of the league! Still think the hammers are going to be hard done by?

Parker YET AGAIN talking about stuff he has absolutely no knowledge of - and why single out West ham?
Who employs this idiot; his comments are always ill-informed and, at times, border on the ludicrous - the transformation from a one-time useless footballer to a present-day useless, wannabe pundit is complete.

3. Raj - can you tell me why the FA didn't check Tevez;'s legibility as they had the paper work, it was only until Liverpool noticed when they took on Mascherano that the FA got involved.

22 - absolutely, Its hard not to be superior in the company of neanderthals at their keyboards who cant even get the most basic of facts right.

'Paul Parker returns on Friday, when he looks ahead to England's World Cup qualifiers against Kazakhstan and Belarus'. God no.

steve.p.1960 comments about sir trev not allowed against the rules ? you got more problems than newcastle mate my old cockney sparra tough in it least we never cheated like you lot.come on the blades

Geordieprince you are a @#$% mate!! What the **** has it got to do with SIR Trev.After all Newcastle have their own problems so just worry about your own bunch of ****

Hang on for a minute, so if we start curbing what were paying these over paid so called football stars they will all leave and play in europe, well as far as I can say let them go give us back the football league that we all knew. So for me yes a salary cap will be good for the game but what limit do you start at? I'll start the bidding one grand per week is enough.

Oh furthermore, Mr Parker. Leeds United were a big Club that nearly folded by paying these so called superstars that couldn't give a @#$% about the fans, with the exception of some so footballer's grow up stop complaing about it's a short Career
and you need to earn it while you can

What a @#$% you are David.Smith for this comment (I haven't forgot the penalty you missed against Germany in the World Cup semi's Parker)

Why do people keep going on about foreign owner being terriblefor the game the worst in the league has to be Mike Ashley who is hanging on for more money at the expense of newcastle.

That doesn't help everyone else in the premiership thinking they can take West Ham to court for compo to explain why they had a @#$% season.

Mr Parker, don't venture into uncharted waters with your comments about foreign investment in clubs, as it will open a huge can of worms against you.
Firstly without such investment many of the Premier League would not be currently viable at this moment in time, however it is littered with "so-called" dodgy deals - take your past club United - currently mortgaged to the tune of $760M, and the Chairman and directors of their main sponsor AIG being investigated by the FBI for fraud. Liverpool again suffering from financial constrints which have halted development on the new ground, and a cap on spending. Wigan the sponser JJB has reduced his presence in the sportswear market or even gone bust? Newcastle - no need to go there to see what's happening.
Fortunately being a Man City supporter, our previous owner managed to do a deal with the current owners, before all the melt down started, leaving City in an ideal position, which cannot be said for that of other clubs.
So don't just pick on West Ham for their current problems, with the state of many financial institutions and governments supporting savers in various banks, they could be one who could survive this current global crisis; whereas others especially those with US dollar investment, will be sweating at the moment, after they will have seen the value of the investment dropping in Sterling terms by 15-20% due to exchange rate movement over the last few months.

Surely clubs are obliged because if they don't have good players, they won't survive in the premiership. It is an arms' race. It's a bit facile to say that the best form of ownership is the old style. It is how it is and money talks, there is nothing you can do about that. Clubs will spend less now because there is less money and credit. All of this is obvious and not really worth discussing.

Jonathan.Highfield you are a smug, superior git.

come here! sing with me in rap... 1..2..3.. The hammer has lost their hammer 9X... Chelsea for life!!!

Just a point, West Hams owner has his finger in many pies (and in more than one country)and his wealth is also not just stuck in Iceland and as such West Ham are at no risk of going under (and nor is the owner) I wish the media would stop hyping up thses kind of situations

I understand. Foreigners = bad. Very simple. Why is Parker allowed to write such rubbish every week? I think there are good owners who are either committed or who understand football is a business. Foreign owners such as Sam Hammam have a long history in the English game whilst British directors such as Ken Bates and Peter Risdale caused a fair few problems.
Fans need to wake up, clubs are businesses intended to make a profit for their owners. Success on pitch helps but isn't the only way to turn a profit. The clubs are simply assets and should be looked upon as such - running a club like a fan in a sweet shop leads to disaster. The best thing an owner can do is clear debts, build up infrastructure, increase stability and reduce costs (i.e. transfers). Lets face it, in their current guise transfers make little sense - something like the Clairfontaine academy and a scouting network could be set up for the cost of some of these stars.
I just wish everyone would realise; these guys aren't kindly old men paying over the odds to realise a dream or get close to the action - they are shrewd businessmen who have their own interests at heart.