English police are strange, blasts arrested Spurs defender Chimbonda

13 April 2012

Pascal Chimbonda has blamed the City of London Police for putting his Tottenham future in doubt.


Officers investigating allegations of football corruption arrested Chimbonda last September on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud but they then released him from bail last Friday.

Trouble with the authorities: Pascal Chimbonda argues with referee Howard Webb

Trouble with the authorities: Pascal Chimbonda argues with referee Howard Webb

The arrest surrounded an £18,000 loan given to Chimbonda by his agent Willie McKay with the latter defending his decision to give the player the money.

The 29-year-old has now been cleared of any wrongdoing, but admits the affair affected his form.

"I always knew I would be ," he said. "My family were in tears when I was arrested and I found it very difficult to explain to them what was happening when I had done nothing wrong in the first place.

"The investigation affected me as I was forced to spend two days in the cells for nothing. I find the policing in England very strange."

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