City make further appeal for Farrelly and Healy

Cork City have once again appealed to FIFA to allow midfielders Gareth Farrelly and Colin Healy special dispensation to play for the team.

The club made the request today in the form of a strongly-worded submission in the hope that the two newcomers would be allowed to kit out for City's upcoming league clashes.

Farrelly and Healy were initially prevented from playing with City by a FIFA judge who enforced a regulation preventing players playing with more than two different teams between the dates of July 1 and June 30.

However, exceptions have been made in the form of special dispensations in the past, not least for Javier Mascherano who was granted permission to play for Liverpool after a move from West Ham within the soccer year.

Cork City's more recent submission requests that FIFA reconsider the decision of the Single Judge.

It also highlighted what the club sees as "discrepancies and anomalies" in the Judge's decisions.

"The club is committed to doing everything in its power to see justice prevail in relation to the two players concerned," read a statement form City's press office.

"The club has spoken to, and taken, advice from people within the football world and the legal world, and also from the political scene. Cork City Football Club reiterates the unfairness of the situation, both for the players themselves, as well as for the club, and sincerely hope that justice and common sense will prevail in the matter."