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Agent banned for Colegate

26 Sep 2006 - 15:57:20

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Agent Jonathan Barnett has been fined £100,000 and had his licence suspended for nine months for his part in the tapping-up scandal involving Chelsea and Ashley Cole.

Barnett was found guilty of two charges of misconduct by a Football Association disciplinary commission and has a further nine-month suspension of his licence suspended for 18 months.

Chelsea, Blues boss Jose Mourinho and Cole were all fined over the meeting in the Royal Park Hotel in London on January 27, 2005.

The disciplinary commission said in a statement: "We are also wholly satisfied that Mr Barnett was a prime mover in the setting up of the meeting.

"We consider this a most serious case of its kind - involving as it did a leading English international player contracted to one of England's premier clubs, namely Arsenal FC, and also involving the chief executive and manager of another leading English premier club, namely Chelsea FC."