{"id":23450,"date":"2025-07-26T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23450\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:23:07","slug":"breaking-lucas-paqueta-expected-to-be-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23450\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Lucas Paqueta Expected to be Cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Ham player Lucas Paqueta is set to be cleared of FA spot fixing charges, as revealed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sport\/football\/article\/lucas-paqueta-spot-fixing-verdict-west-ham-nv6xzh9xk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Times<\/a> this evening, in an article penned by Matt Lawton and Martyn Ziegler.<\/p>\n<p>They cite sources with knowledge of the case, and tonight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claret and Hug<\/a>h have heard the same from another source close to the player.<\/p>\n<p>The official FA announcement is now expected to be made next week in what is sure to be an embarrassment for them but a huge relief for Paqueta, his family and West Ham.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>Paqueta\u2019s legal fees, which include barrister Nick De Marco KC, are estimated to have cost him as much as \u00a31 million, and the FA could face a compensation claim to recover those fees.<\/p>\n<p>Claret and Hugh were first tipped off that a verdict was imminent today around midnight last night, but frustratingly, Friday came and went without a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Times news, which we believe is correct, brings some welcome good news to the end of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham player Lucas Paqueta is set to be cleared of FA spot fixing charges, as revealed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-23450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}