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Yahoo
a day ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
🚨 UEFA fines Athletic over crowd trouble against Manchester United
The Athletic Club finds itself at the center of controversy after announcing that the UEFA Control, Ethics, and Disciplinary Committee has proposed a fine of 50,000 euros for incidents that occurred during the home and away matches of the Europa League semifinals against Manchester United. The issue arises following the matches played this season, where behaviors such as throwing objects, inappropriate chants, or the use of flares were reportedly recorded, according to UEFA regulations. The proposed fine, which includes 30,000 euros for the home leg and 20,000 euros for the away leg, reflects UEFA's increasingly strict stance against such incidents. The lions, who have always stood out for their identity and massive support, now await the final decision, which could come in the next few days. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here. 📸 OLI SCARFF - AFP or licensors
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
'We spent two minutes at Manchester Airport, now we've got a bill for £170'
A mum from Stockport says she has been fined £170 after being dropped off at Manchester Airport. Nicola Maher, 46, was taken to the airport by her father, Ray Watson, to catch a flight to Tenerife back in after returning from her holiday she was sent a letter stating that she had to pay £170 for failing to pay the £5 fee for visiting the drop-off point at Terminal 2. Nicola says that the letter was sent by a debt recovery company on behalf of car park firm, fine was sent to Nicola as the car is registered in her name. Nicola says that her father, 68, was only at the section "for minutes" and was unaware that the £5 fee had to be paid online rather than on also told the Manchester Evening News that as he was a blue badge holder, he assumed he would not need to. The MEN understands that while there are exemptions for blue badge holders, they apply to the travelling passenger rather than the said: "He was dropping me off in my car, but because none of us had dropped anybody off in years, we thought you had to pay the £5 while you were there. "When he dropped us off, he had no inkling about this. He had the badge with him, and he said if he was to see the marshal he would show it to them."According to Nicola, the letter was dated for July 3rd, and she received it on July 10th. She says that prior to that, she had not received any previous letters from APCOA."The naughtiest bit of it is sending it straight to a debt recovery when you're not notifying the customer at all. I think it's so wrong," she said."I hadn't received anything from them until I got a letter. It arrived on July 10th and it was dated July 3rd."This letter had come from a debt recovery company. I explained to them that I've had no notification about anything before receiving their letter. "I knew there'd be a fine if we hadn't paid it. I'd be quite happy to pay a £50 charge or wherever it started, I would have been more than happy to do that because it was obviously his error."Over the weekend I've been speaking to a family member and he's got a letter from exactly the same company from when he dropped his wife off at the airport."There were no barriers up, nothing, so he assumed he didn't have to pay."They're making so much money out of it, sending the claims straight to debt recovery. I've been told since that apparently there is a sign but it's not until you're driving out. READ MORE: Girl, 8, 'cut to the bone' in Turkey holiday DJ booth glass horror READ MORE: 'She's in the middle of the road, there's blood everywhere': Disturbing 999 call recording released after gran mowed down by e-bike "I'm not being funny, but you're concentrating when you're driving, so reading a sign is the last thing you're doing."The Manchester Evening News has approached APCOA for comment.A Manchester Airport spokesperson said: "Our new barrierless pick-up and drop off areas are reducing congestion around the airport by making sure that people no longer have to wait to exit the areas, which previously could cause traffic to back up.'The feedback we've had from passengers tells us the new barrierless system has made the airport experience more seamless and they're pleased that they no longer have to wait to leave the pick-up and drop-off areas. That means people aren't ending up having to pay more than they should as a result of waiting at the barriers.'The vast majority of passengers do remember to pay before the deadline but we want to make sure that people don't forget so we've put prominent signage in place around the areas to make sure nobody misses it.'
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Masks, parties, nightclubs and lateness: players fined by club 😳
Douglas Luiz will be fined by Juventus after skipping the team's gathering, and will have to pay a sum that can reach up to 120,000 euros. This is not the first case of a player being punished with a fine by their own club for indiscipline: the Brazilian is in good company. Here is a list of famous cases of players fined by their own clubs. 🕺🏾 Ronaldinho in the nightclub Genius and recklessness: how else to define a player like Ronaldinho? At Milan, the Brazilian brought a lot of class, but just as many headaches for Adriano Galliani, who didn't seem to be able to limit the player's desire to party. We are in September 2009 and, on the eve of the Champions League match against Zurich (lost 1-0 at San Siro), Dinho gets caught in the Shocking Club nightclub dancing until 2:30 in the morning. So Galliani decides to take a hard line, after the umpteenth offense by the Brazilian. ✈️ Flight and delay, the case of Adriano A few months earlier, on the other side of the Milan derby, another Brazilian had caused problems for his club. We are talking about Adriano, who started 2009 by getting fined for returning late from the winter break. Mourinho doesn't seem too irritated, but the club decides to take a hard line. For two reasons: it wasn't the first training session skipped during the season, and the statements by Adriano's spokesperson, who claimed that the Nerazzurri hadn't booked the return flight from Brazil, weren't appreciated. 🤦🏻♂️ How many Cassanate Who was practically a habitué of fines was Antonio Cassano: during his time at Roma, he got into all sorts of trouble, getting fined by the club on more than one occasion. Some examples? In 2004, he was expelled for slapping Chiellini, in 2005 he refused to come on the field in a friendly after Spalletti took the captain's armband away from him and gave it to Montella. On another occasion, he called team manager Tempestilli and told him, "I'm sick of being on the bench for these four ****". And the list goes on... Even away from Roma, Cassano's outbursts didn't end: in 2013, Inter put him out of the squad and fined him 40,000 euros after a violent argument with coach Stramaccioni. 🥷 The Ninja's New Year's Eve And speaking of Roma, how can we forget the episode of Radja Nainggolan's New Year's Eve, which he celebrated in a rather unsuitable way. Alcohol, cigarettes, and blasphemies on a padel court, all documented with a social media live video by the player himself, which quickly went viral. Result? A fine of 100,000 euros and the player's exclusion from several matches. 🦸🏻♂️ Aubameyang's mask In the case of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, there were no outrageous behaviors, but a celebration... with the wrong brand. To celebrate a goal in the derby against Schalke 04, Aubameyang put on a mask. The problem? The mask was from Nike, while Dortmund was sponsored by Puma, and the club decided to fine the player. It wouldn't be the only fine in his career for the Gabonese player, who was sanctioned by the CAF for publishing sarcastic tweets about the African confederation after his national team was stuck in an airport in Gambia, forced to sleep on the floor. 💸 Mutu, what a blow! If normally fines can reach up to 30% of a player's salary, Adrian Mutu was forced to pay Chelsea a whopping 17 million euros. The reason? The fact that the player had tested positive for cocaine in a doping test, violating his contract with Chelsea. The Romanian tried to appeal against the situation, but to no avail. ⏰ Dembélé's alarm clock If today Ousmane Dembélé is one of the heroes of PSG's Champions League victory, in 2018 his reputation was quite different: after becoming one of the most expensive signings in football history by joining Barcelona, he failed to convince the Blaugrana that he was worth the money spent on him. Besides his performance on the field, his immature behavior off the field didn't help, particularly his chronic lateness. So, after yet another delay, of two hours, to a training session, the Catalan club decided to fine him 100,000 euros. The justification for the delay? "I didn't hear the alarm clock". 💥 Tough punishment for the Apache One of the toughest sanctions ever imposed by a club on one of its players was the fine received by Carlos Tevez during his time at Manchester City. One million pounds, equivalent to four weeks' salary, plus a two-week suspension. The reason? The Apache's bad behavior, which the club deemed guilty of five separate contract violations for refusing to warm up during the Champions League match against Bayern Munich. The refusal to enter the field was due to a disagreement with Mancini, who had waited too long to send him on the field after he had warmed up for 35 minutes. This led to an argument, and Tevez left Manchester to return to Argentina, where he stayed for several months before apologizing and returning to the team. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here. 📸 Michael Owens - 2025 Getty Images
Malay Mail
5 days ago
- Automotive
- Malay Mail
Singapore's SMRT fined RM7.9m for six-day MRT disruption in 2024, down from initial RM9.9m
SINGAPORE, July 26 — Singapore public transport operator SMRT will pay a reduced fine of S$2.4 million (RM7.9 million) over a major six-day MRT disruption on the East-West Line in September 2024, following a review by the Land Transport Authority (LTA). The penalty is S$600,000 less than the initial amount announced in June. According to The Straits Times, the updated fine was revealed in an LTA statement yesterday. The regulator said it had considered SMRT's representations and the challenges the operator faced during the incident, including pandemic-related supply chain disruptions that delayed spare parts for train overhauls. The fine will go into the Public Transport Fund to help lower-income households with commuting costs, said LTA. SMRT has also been directed to invest at least S$600,000 within a year to strengthen its maintenance capabilities and submit documented proof of the improvements. 'In reaching this decision, LTA took into consideration the considerable challenges SMRT had faced in planning and executing their overhaul regime for the Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) trains,' the authority said, citing the global delays triggered by Covid-19. The disruption stemmed from a faulty component on a first-generation KHI train that led to a partial derailment between Jurong East and Buona Vista stations on the morning of September 25, 2024. Services were affected until September 30, disrupting about one in six trips each day. Investigations found that SMRT had extended overhaul intervals without a detailed engineering or risk assessment. The root cause was traced to degraded grease, which led to the detachment of an axle box — a key component connecting the train's wheels — near Dover station. One of the train's bogies derailed as a result, damaging 2.55km of track and trackside infrastructure. SMRT Trains president Lam Sheau Kai responded in a Facebook post, saying the operator will 'strengthen its direct engagement with original equipment manufacturers of trains and systems' and invest in technical expertise through deeper collaboration. Lam added that SMRT has long prioritised workforce development and upskilling, and will continue supporting the secondment of LTA engineers — a practice ongoing since 2018. SMRT is also working with LTA and Alstom to progressively roll out the new R151 trains, with all 106 units expected on the North-South and East-West lines by 2026. As of June 29, 61 R151 trains were in operation. The ageing KHI fleet is set to be retired by September. The Straits Times reported that LTA had earlier described the original S$3 million fine as 'proportionate', but also took into account SMRT's financial outlay for emergency bus bridging and shuttle services during the disruption, as well as repair costs. SMRT had submitted its representations on June 6 after receiving LTA's notice of intention to penalise the operator on May 30. The transport regulator reviewed the submission before confirming the revised fine on July 25. SMRT has 14 days to appeal the penalty to Acting Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow. Asked by The Straits Times whether it would do so, Lam said only that SMRT had 'noted that LTA had considered its representations'. The S$2.4 million penalty is the second-highest imposed on a rail operator in Singapore's history. The record fine remains the S$5.4 million SMRT incurred following a 2015 disruption that shut down the entire North-South and East-West lines during evening rush hour.
Reuters
5 days ago
- Business
- Reuters
UK financial watchdog fines H2O's former deputy CEO, places ban
July 25 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Conduct Authority on Friday imposed a fine of 1 million pounds ($1.34 million) on Jean-Noel Alba, the former deputy CEO of French asset manager H2O, and banned him from the financial services industry following his conduct during an investigation. H2O in 2019 became the subject of market and regulatory concern over its investments in illiquid bonds issued by several companies related to German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst, who owns investment firm Tennor. FCA said that during its investigation, Alba provided false and misleading statements and documentation to the regulator. "Alba asked junior colleagues to create minutes, including records and minutes of committees, where no formal meetings had taken place," the watchdog said. "Alba also provided due diligence materials, such as investment research, to the FCA that had been created years after the investments had been made, when he had claimed they were produced at the time." In August 2024, H2O voluntarily offered to pay 250 million euros to investors trapped in funds since 2020 and said it would shut its UK regulated operations, escaping a fine for failing to make sufficient checks on risky investments. ($1 = 0.7448 pounds)
