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Cardiff boss Warnock rubbishes payment claims from Crystal Palace winger Puncheon

Neil Warnock has denied allegations of bribery after he was accused by Jason Puncheon.

The Crystal Palace winger had Tweeted that the new Cardiff City manager asked players to pay him in a bid to get themselves into Palace's matchday squad when he was in charge in 2014.

Puncheon was forced to delete the Twitter posts and was also fined £15,000 by the Football Association for the allegations which Warnock has since again addressed.

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 that the allegations which were published about me were unfounded. Any suggestion that the FA failed to investigate this matter is simply untrue.

"In fact, Mr Puncheon apologised to me and removed the allegations from his Twitter account. The FA fined him £15,000 and he was warned as to his future conduct.

"I am disappointed that these allegations have been repeated after Mr Puncheon's apology and after the FA investigated fully.

"If anyone had asked me the truth before publication, I would have pointed them to the FA website, where the facts are all easily accessible."

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