ZAHAVI IN THE DOCK

Last updated : 31 March 2005 By editor

The Guardian reports:

‘Pini Zahavi's status as one of the world's leading agents could be in jeopardy when the Football Association forwards its file on his conduct in the Ashley Cole "tapping-up" affair to Fifa. The world governing body is soon expected to receive the dossier compiled by the Premier League's investigators into the alleged illegal approach for Cole by Chelsea.


‘The FA will conduct its own inquiry into the behaviour of Cole's agent Jonathan Barnett but it is Fifa who must consider Zahavi's role in the meeting between Chelsea officials and Cole at the Royal Park Hotel on January 27. Though Zahavi lives in London, he is registered in Israel and therefore it is Fifa's legal department, through its subsidiary the players' status committee, that will investigate.’