Conversations in the hairdressing salon owned by the mother of Brazilian soccer player Lucas Paqueta were key to the West Ham forward being accused of spot fixing bets in the Premier League.

Paqueta was ultimately cleared of the charges and on Wednesday a 314-page document was published outlining the details of the case.

A commission found charges by the English Football Association to be unproven after the governing body claimed he had deliberately received yellow cards in four separate matches to affect betting markets.

A central point of the case were conversations held in the salon in Rio owned by Paqueta's mother, Christiane Tolentino, which may have led to a flurry of bets.

“I don’t know if anyone I have spoken to might have interpreted my normal conversations about Lucas as

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