Paqueta had an FA investigation into spot-fixing allegations hanging over him for two years after he was accused of getting booked deliberately for betting purposes.<\/p>\n
He was cleared of the charges in July, but the probe still cost him a likely move to Manchester City two summers ago.<\/p>\n
The emotional 28-year-old has now taken to social media to criticise the FA for a not providing him with “psychological support”.<\/p>\n
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\nPaqueta did not go quietly<\/p>\n
He wrote on X: “I understand that now I have to come across as the villain; it\u2019s hard to live with everything that\u2019s been caused in my life and in my psyche!<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ll keep trying to ensure they don\u2019t affect me even more. This doesn\u2019t justify my expulsion, and for that I apologise to the fans and my team-mates!”<\/p>\n
Then, in response to a Sky Sports Premier League post in which co-commentator Rob Green brands his red card “ridiculous behaviour”, he added: “It\u2019s ridiculous to have your life and career affected for two years without any psychological support from the federation.<\/p>\n
“Perhaps this ridiculous behaviour is just a reflection of everything I\u2019ve had to endure and, it seems, have to continue enduring! I\u2019m sorry if I\u2019m not perfect.”<\/p>\n
The FA has been approached for a comment.<\/p>\n
West Ham boss Nuno Espirito Santo will discuss the incident with Paqueta.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s hard to play against a team like Liverpool with one man less,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I will not go much further on comments of the situation. I hope you understand.<\/p>\n
“Just allow me to speak with Lucas first and try to understand. I want to have a private conversation, to try to understand.<\/p>\n
“I think it\u2019s unfair not to make any kind of comment without a chance to speak with him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Ham’s Lucas Paqueta has accused the English Football Association of a lack of support in an extraordinary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-168006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}