Read this just now on the Dr Kish blog (just got to be Frankie back) and couldn't believe what I'd read:
CLUB REFUSES TO PAY JAILED PLAYER
"A non-league club faces suspension by the Football Association from all competitions for refusing to pay an ex-player jailed on a robbery charge. Grays Athletic FC terminated Ashley Sestanovich's contract before his conviction for conspiracy to rob. Grays have been given 14 days by the FA to pay Sestanovich £14,000 for the five months up to his conviction. He was jailed for eight years. Two other men were jailed for life for shooting a man dead during the raid. An FA disciplinary hearing ordered Grays to pay Sestanovich five months' wages, in June, last year, after ruling they were in breach of FA regulations. The club must also pay a £500 fine and the hearing's costs. If they fail to do so, the south Essex club will be suspended from all football. Grays have been involved in a counterclaim against Sestanovich who played one pre-season friendly for the club before his arrest. The club claim that Sestanovich originally told them he was being held on remand for motoring offences, but once the nature of the charges became known they served him with 14 days' notice. His conviction related to a robbery in Streatham, London, in 2005 in which Thomas Fahey was murdered."
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