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Originally Posted by alty website
Footnote: The deduction of 18 points, fine of £1,000 and consequent relegation of Altrincham follows their playing James Robinson in the Conference this season. Robinson was signed from another English club, Accrington Stanley, who failed to get international clerance for him. Last week Stanley were fined by the FA the princely sum of £200 for this offence
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nearly let this go but it does need to be clarified, altrincham didn't sign him from us at all. he played a couple of games for our reserves for which we were fined but was never registered for our first team and so in fact was never accrington stanley's player to sign from us. we were as much in the dark about him requiring international clearance as altrincham, as when we took him on he had been training with another english side. had he signed for our first team we would have done a detailed check as we do with every player that joins us. having said this, we do understand that altrincham are upset and we have every sympathy for them.