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Football Association wants BBC to show Panorama evidence
England - 25 September, 2006
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BBC programme Panorama has not yet handed over any of the evidence backing its presentation on bungs.
The Football Association said it was disappointed that there was no response to its request for evidence to provide all the material from their year-long investigation.
The FA and Premier League have launched what they promised would be an "exhaustive" inquiry into the claims of illicit payments and illegal approaches made by the programme.
"We are still waiting to hear from the BBC as to whether they are going to provide us with the evidence we have requested," an FA spokesman said. "We fully expect to receive all the information that they obtained during their investigation and it's disappointing that we have not had that co-operation yet.
"There's been a lot of hype about this programme and they appear to be slow in coming forward with any further evidence to back up the allegations in the programme."
A spokesman for Panorama said, however, that the FA and Premier League needed to make specific requests for information and that they could not simply hand over all the evidence they had obtained.
A senior FA figure is expected to make a direct appeal for them to supply the evidence today.
"They need to tell us exactly what they want and then we will look at those requests," a BBC spokesman said.
That has angered FA and Premier League officials who say they had not been told of the need to make specific requests for information.
From the broadcast alone, the FA are investigating bung claims against Bolton manager Sam Allardyce and the allegations that his son, former agent Craig, received payments in relation to three transfers of players to the club in breach of FA rules. The FA also is investigating the agents Peter Harrison and Charles Collymore and the claims against Kevin Bond, the Newcastle assistant manager.
In addition to those inquiries, the FA has opened a joint investigation with the Premier League into claims that Harrison made illegal approaches to Chelsea, Newcastle and Liverpool on behalf of his client, Nathan Porritt.
Frank Arnesen, the Chelsea director of youth football, was filmed telling Harrison that the club would be prepared to pay Porritt, an England Under-15 international, GBP 150,000 spread over three seasons, even though he was already registered with Middlesbrough.
It will also look into the tapping up claims made against the Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp, who had already issued legal proceedings against the BBC prior to the programme being aired.
The Panorama investigation was watched by an average audience of 5.1 million ? above the average audience of between one and two million, the programme usually attracts.
The Football Association said it was disappointed that there was no response to its request for evidence to provide all the material from their year-long investigation.
The FA and Premier League have launched what they promised would be an "exhaustive" inquiry into the claims of illicit payments and illegal approaches made by the programme.
"We are still waiting to hear from the BBC as to whether they are going to provide us with the evidence we have requested," an FA spokesman said. "We fully expect to receive all the information that they obtained during their investigation and it's disappointing that we have not had that co-operation yet.
"There's been a lot of hype about this programme and they appear to be slow in coming forward with any further evidence to back up the allegations in the programme."
A spokesman for Panorama said, however, that the FA and Premier League needed to make specific requests for information and that they could not simply hand over all the evidence they had obtained.
A senior FA figure is expected to make a direct appeal for them to supply the evidence today.
"They need to tell us exactly what they want and then we will look at those requests," a BBC spokesman said.
That has angered FA and Premier League officials who say they had not been told of the need to make specific requests for information.
From the broadcast alone, the FA are investigating bung claims against Bolton manager Sam Allardyce and the allegations that his son, former agent Craig, received payments in relation to three transfers of players to the club in breach of FA rules. The FA also is investigating the agents Peter Harrison and Charles Collymore and the claims against Kevin Bond, the Newcastle assistant manager.
In addition to those inquiries, the FA has opened a joint investigation with the Premier League into claims that Harrison made illegal approaches to Chelsea, Newcastle and Liverpool on behalf of his client, Nathan Porritt.
Frank Arnesen, the Chelsea director of youth football, was filmed telling Harrison that the club would be prepared to pay Porritt, an England Under-15 international, GBP 150,000 spread over three seasons, even though he was already registered with Middlesbrough.
It will also look into the tapping up claims made against the Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp, who had already issued legal proceedings against the BBC prior to the programme being aired.
The Panorama investigation was watched by an average audience of 5.1 million ? above the average audience of between one and two million, the programme usually attracts.
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