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Warnock denies allegations
- Updated: October 17, 2016
Neil Warnock has denied allegations from former player Jason Puncheon that he requested payments to pick players.
Claims that Warnock, currently managing Cardiff City, asked players to pay him to play were raised before a committee of MPs on Monday.
Puncheon had posted a claim on Twitter than Warnock paid members of his squad extra wages and appearance money to make sure they pay him to “get in the team or on the bench”.
Puncheon played under Warnock at Crystal Palace in 2014 and also during a loan spell at Queens Park Rangers in 2011.
The tweets were later deleted and Puncheon was fined £15,000 by the Football Association as well as being warned about his future conduct.
But a statement from Warnock said: “These allegations are completely and utterly false.
“The FA Commission considered all of the evidence in detail in 2014 and it found …