This includes a 2-0 situation in which Tottenham Hotspur won at Newcastle United.
The match was marred by a deliberate stamp and sending-off by Jonjo Shelvey in the 48th minute, when he deliberately stamped the ankle of fouled Tottenham player Dele Alli.
Given the context that there is belief that metrics surrounding betting on the match, etc. indicate the match may well have been fixed or even pre-arranged (Football Is Fixed stated that the match was being "insider-traded" with the known result), it is impossible not to charge Shelvey with the concept that he may well have been in on the fix.
A cursory study on Shelvey indicates we may have another Joey Barton on our hands: Another player with no discipline, nor loyalty to anyone but himself, leading to the possibility he could have been approached and signed to fix the match.
- December 29, 2014: Banned for four matches by the FA for violent conduct, uncalled by the referee, for a swinging arm clothesline while playing for Swansea City. It was his second sending-off in two months.
- January 10, 2016: Shelvey is effectively fired from Swansea City after an incident in which a fan was challenged by Shelvey to fight him outside.
- December 2016: Banned five matches and fined 100,000 pounds by the FA for a racist incident in the Championship. The match took place the previous September.
- And now this incident, for which he is suspended, according to the FA's website, the standard three matches.
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