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August 01, 2006

More cheating allegations in W-League

"The question is why were the Ottawa players allowed to play in that Division Championship game vs the NJ Wildcats but Charmaine and Karina were not allowed to play. When that question was posed to Even, his answer was that the NJ organization did not ask. First of all, they were smart not to ask because any sane person knows that the national team should come first. What this shows it that Ottawa needed to tip the scales in their favour, with the help of the Canadian National Team coach, Even Pellerud, in order to win that Division Championship game.

The deal was if Even would allow those four national team players to play in the game and not allow Charmaine nor Karina to take part, then Ottawa would have a greater chance of winning the Division Championship. If the NJ Wildcats, 2005 W-League Champions, were kept out of the final four, then the Vancouver Whitecaps, who is hosting the W-League Championships and is overseen by Even Pellerud, would secure their chances of winning the championsips and protecting their investment there in Vancouver. In the end, this is the sad reality of this whole soap opera and I, as a representative of Canadian soccer, I am embarrassed that this is what some very desperate people have to resort to in order to try to win."