Allegations that Neil Warnock forced players to pay him a chunk of their wages to get into the team, were repeated in the House of Commons today under parliamentary privilege.
The allegations were first tweeted out by Crystal Palace player Jason Puncheon in 2014. Elsewhere in his tweetstorm that night, Puncheon described Warnock as "crooked" and said he was "ruining the game."
The tweets were swiftly deleted but were repeated by Tory MP Damian Green today. He asked the FA's Greg Clarke why the allegation hadn't been followed up.
The FA Chairman said he was only in the job five weeks and wasn't able to confirm whether the allegations had been investigated.
Green repeated the allegations under parliamentary privilege, which is protected from libel laws.
The tweets have been deleted but for the benefit of the committee they are still available online, although they're not on his Twitter account.
"(Puncheon) said: 'What I won't accept is an opinion from a man who's crooked and ruining the game.
"'Neil Warnock, the man who signs players, gives them extra wages and appearance bonuses to make sure that they pay him to get into the team or on the bench.
"The fact he could even talk about training is shocking, he was never there."
Puncheon was retaliating against comments made by Warnock as a pundit. He was criticising Puncheon for a penalty miss against Spurs.
Later on, Warnock released a statement that the allegations had been looked into and had been determined to be false. He said that Puncheon had apologised to him personally.
These allegations are completely and utterly false.
The FA Commission considered all of the evidence in detail in 2014 and it found that the allegations which were published about me were unfounded. Any suggestion that the FA failed to investigate this matter is simply untrue.
In fact, Mr Puncheon apologised to me and removed the allegations from his Twitter account. The FA fined him £15,000 and he was warned as to his future conduct.
