Ike O'Noclassed

Possibly the fact that whereas Choudhury admitted the charge, Hennessey denied his and his case was found not proven (possibly because the explanation was so ludicous it must have been true) would explain the fines issue. Rice was not charged so presumably his tweets did not merit a disciplinary charge and as far as I could see the FA's response to his up the RA tweets was more about the possibility that he'll be in the England team (and playing before their supporters) before long than any supposed transgression. From Choudhury's charge sheet, it seems the offending tweets were over a prolonged period up to June 2014 by which time he was 16 going on 17 which suggests to me there could well have been plenty more of them which haven't been made public. As long as he's fessed up to them all, he should be able to quickly move on plus the bonus that the FA is nudging young players and Academy Directors to clear out these historical tweets and avoid such unpleasantness somewhere down the line.

Doesn't flap under pressure, go awol when there's balls to be won, make failed attempts to construct offside traps rather than make a tackle, run out of puff after 45 minutes, panic when there's no out ball immediately available ...

I thought he was the new Garry Parker.