“It could be that they’ve split the hearing in two for there to be a decision about liability, and the actual adjournment is that they’ll come back for a sanction hearing in the summer if liability is established.
“If I had to guess, and it is completely a guess because I haven’t been able to see any information to explain it, I suspect that the adjournment is basically because they will now decide whether there’s liability and whether he’s done it and then they will come back for a sanction hearing where anything that the player wants to put in mitigation or anything that the FA wants to put in aggravation to the charges will be put in and then the decision will be made in respect of the ban.
“Then after that, if he gets a very serious ban, I think there’s no question he will appeal, and then it will take a little bit more time before that’s established.
“The stakes are very high, so he may well be fighting for his entire career..“It could be that they’ve split the hearing in two for there to be a decision about liability, and the actual adjournment is that they’ll come back for a sanction hearing in the summer if liability is established.
“If I had to guess, and it is completely a guess because I haven’t been able to see any information to explain it, I suspect that the adjournment is basically because they will now decide whether there’s liability and whether he’s done it and then they will come back for a sanction hearing where anything that the player wants to put in mitigation or anything that the FA wants to put in aggravation to the charges will be put in and then the decision will be made in respect of the ban.
“Then after that, if he gets a very serious ban, I think there’s no question he will appeal, and then it will take a little bit more time before that’s established.
“The stakes are very high, so he may well be fighting for his entire career.
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