Coleman confident of avoiding points deduction

Accrington Stanley will be awaiting tomorrow's Football League verdict over their alledged fielding of two ineligible players with great interest as, if proven, they could be docked up to seven points.

"We feel quite confident," manager John Coleman told BBC Sport.

"We haven't tried to deceive anyone. It was an administration problem. We don't feel we've done a great deal wrong."

Club chairman Eric Whalley described the problem as a "minor technicality".

Stanley will hope that the League will follow the example they set when they recently reduced a points deduction for AFC Wimbledon from eighteen down to three.

Interestingly the hearing takes place at Preston from where one of the players involved came from.

Chris McGrail played twice for Stanley when on work experience at the club and registered as a scholar with North End.

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