- Paul Stretford
Paul Stretford is an English
football agent . His organisationProactive Sports Management represent, amongst others, England footballerWayne Rooney . During a failed legal action resulting from events surrounding Proactive's acquisition of Rooney as a client Stretford misled the court leading to the trial collapsing. SubsequentlyThe Football Association charged him with misconduct over the acquisition of Rooney.In 2007, Stretford appealed to the
Court of Appeal , but it ruled in favour of the FA and disciplinary committee chairmanBarry Bright , that the applied disciplinary proceedings did comply with article 6 of theEuropean Convention on Human Rights , and that one of the FA rules was not unlawful restraint of trade. [cite news | date=2007-04-13 | url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/reports/article1647336.ece | title=Parties to an arbitration waive Convention right to fair trial | work=The Times | accessdate=2008-01-10] [cite news | date=2007-04-02 | url=http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=125084 | title=Charles Russell scores Appeal Court win for FA | work=The Lawyer | accessdate=2008-01-10]On July 9th, 2008, he was fined £300,000 and banned from working as an agent for 18 months. [http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_3797964,00.html]
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External links
* [http://www.proactivesports.co.uk/ Proactive Sports Management] - Official site
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