FA to show Sampson investigation result to MPS
Eni Aluko was last night on the brink of learning whether Mark Sampson had been found guilty of racially abusing her and her England team-mate or whether he had been cleared for a third time.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal that the Football Association was yesterday planning to submit the findings of a reopened investigation into the Sampson case to a parliamentary inquiry into sport governance ahead of a meeting tomorrow of the digital, culture, media and sport select committee.
The FA last month reinstructed the barrister Katharine Newton, who carried out the second of two probes into the affair, after Drew Spence came forward to corroborate Aluko’s claims that Sampson had asked her mixed-race Chelsea team-mate how many times she had been arrested. Aluko also alleges Sampson – sacked last month over “inappropriate” relationships with players in his previous job – told her personally to make sure her Nigerian relatives did not bring Ebola to an England match at Wembley.
Provided it is ready in time, Newton’s report into her reopened investigation will be issued today to the FA, which would provide the findings to the DCMS select committee for publication tomorrow.
The committee will then hear testimony from both Aluko – who will also submit written evidence – and her former England team-mate, Lianne Sanderson, before grilling FA chairman Greg Clarke, chief executive Martin Glenn, technical director Dan Ashworth and human resources director Rachel Brace over their handling of the matter.
Sampson has denied any wrongdoing.