A round-up of today's other stories in brief

Alcaraz banned for spitting offence

WIGAN defender Antolin Alcaraz has accepted his Football Association misconduct charge for spitting in Sunday’s defeat at Wolves and will serve an automatic three-match ban.

The Paraguay international was caught by television cameras spitting at Richard Stearman towards the end of the Latics’ 3-1 defeat at Molineux.

Although referee Lee Probert did not see the incident at the time video evidence highlighted the offence and Alcaraz was charged by the FA on Monday.

He was given until 6pm yesterday to respond to the charge and did so shortly before the deadline.

A Wigan statement also said the defender will be subject to the club’s disciplinary process as well.

“Alcaraz has accepted the FA’s misconduct charge . . the mattter will be treated with the utmost seriousness and be dealt with internally, according to the club’s code of conduct,” the club added.

Kuszczak a 'slave' to Manchester

TOMASZ Kuszczak has claimed he is treated like a “slave” by Manchester United after a proposed loan move to Leeds was blocked.

The Poland international, 29, was keen to join the npower Championship side on a deal until January to keep himself in national coach Franciszek Smuda’s thoughts ahead of next summer’s European Championship, which his country will co-host with Ukraine.

In comments reported by a number of national newspapers, Kuszczak said: “I’ve become a slave to Manchester. I’m frustrated but I don’t want to slander or criticise Alex Ferguson. It’s not my style.

“It was a glimmer of hope for me. It would have reminded the Poland manager about me – but I didn’t get the club’s approval.”

Tevez accepts club punishment

MANCHESTER City striker Carlos Tevez will not contest the club’s ruling that he was guilty of misconduct in the Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich.

City last month fined Tevez four weeks’ wages, later reduced to two weeks’, after a disciplinary panel found the player guilty of five breaches of contract relating to his behaviour on the bench during the match in Munich on September 27th.

Tevez was also suspended for two weeks – although that punishment was deemed to have already been served – but the deadline for lodging an appeal passed yesterday.

City’s 30-year-old defender Kolo Toure has accepted a club fine of six weeks’ wages in relation to his suspension for failing a drug test.

Toure was handed a six-month ban in May after testing positive for a prohibited substance.

The 30-year-old made his comeback from the suspension in September, but last week had an internal disciplinary hearing at City.

Juventus official sentenced

AN Italian court has sentenced former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi to five years and four months in jail for his role in the 2006 match-fixing case which led to Juve being demoted and having their 2005 and 2006 Serie A titles taken away.

Prosecutors in Naples had asked for five years and eight months for Moggi.

Moggi, already banned from football was found guilty of sporting fraud and conspiracy in the criminal trial linked to the affair.

Stadium row rumbles on as man suspected of 'spying'

THE saga of the future of the London 2012 Olympic stadium took another twist when a man was arrested yesterday over allegations that executives of West Ham United soccer club and the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) were spied upon by a potential tenant of the venue.

“An investigation was launched in August 2011 by officers from the Economic and Specialist Crime Command following allegations by West Ham and the Olympic Park Legacy Company in respect of the unlawful obtaining of information,” read a Metropolitan Police statement.

“A 29-year-old man was arrested in connection with the investigation. He was arrested at an address in Sussex on suspicion of fraud offences and has been taken into custody at a Sussex police station, where he remains.”

West Ham were chosen as the preferred long-term tenants of the €582 million stadium in February.

“My board were put under surveillance by Tottenham Hotspur and the chairman of Tottenham Hotspur felt confident enough to say that in the Sunday Times several months ago, that all 14 members of my board were put under surveillance,” said OPLC chairwoman Baroness Ford.

Tottenham said: “We totally reject this accusation in the strongest possible terms.”