Former Leeds United Owner Massimo Cellino Banned From FA For Year, Fined £100,000

Former League Championship side Leeds United Owner Massimo Cellino has been fined £100,000 ($132,800) and banned for a year by the FA, according to the BBC. Cellino "breached the rules on football agents over the sale of Ross McCormack to Fulham" for £11M in July '14. An FA tribunal rejected the Italian's claim that a member of an appeal board that found him guilty in January was "biased against him, having been a member of the Association's Council." It upheld the ruling of a previous arbitration appeal hearing in July. The FA found Leeds had "used the services of an unauthorised agent" while selling McCormack to Fulham, creating a "sham scouting agreement for the purposes of deceiving the FA." Cellino then "lied in both his oral and written evidence" to the FA commission about the purpose of the scouting agreement (BBC, 10/30).