President of the Football Club Metalist (Kharkiv) Oleksandr Yaroslavsky has accused the Federation of Football of Ukraine (FFU) of applying groundless disciplinary sanctions to the club and expressed hope they would be canceled.
"Yesterday the administration of FC Metalist received an official extract from a protocol of a meeting of the FFU’s Control and Disciplinary Committee, which reads that our club has been deprived of nine points honestly earned this season, and suffered a number of other sanctions," reads the statement of the president of the club, publicized on Tuesday.
Yaroslavsky said he was sure that the FFU "had no legal basis" for applying any disciplinary sanctions against FC Metalist.
"They are just trying to do away with our club, as long as we intend to play in the championship, where all participants have equal conditions, and referees judge matches honestly," he said.
The president of the club also noted: "I believe that we will manage to restore justice and cancel this openly repressive decision of the FFU’s Control and Disciplinary Committee. If not, we can simply forget about fair play in Ukrainian football. The championship, where undesirable rivals are turned into outsiders by an administrative decision, cannot be fair. This is not football any more."
