The Football Association is to investigate claims that a former Newcastle United reserve team player was involved in FA Cup final ticket irregularities.   The news follows newspaper allegations that the former player sold 72 tickets to a tout before this year's final with Manchester United at Wembley.   FA spokesman Steve Double reportedly said in The Mirror: " We will look into any information which The Mirror can provide. In a taped interview with The Mirror, United's former reserve goalkeeper Peter Keen said: "I am really sorry for what I did. I let everyone down." Keen, 23, then on around £500 a week, said he needed extra money to take his girlfriend on a two-week summer holiday to Cyprus.   He had been introduced to the tout by a friend and agreed to get him as many tickets as possible.   According to The Mirror, the tout, known as "Brian," said he would pay about £450 for each ticket, which had a face value of £36.   Keen said he met Brian in a car park on the edge of Newcastle United's Chester-le-Street training ground on Wednesday May 19, three days before the Cup Final, won by Manchester United. Keen allegedly slid into the passenger seat of Brian's car and handed over 72 tickets. He later handed out the envelopes - and they discovered they had been duped. Instead of the expected banknotes, the envelopes were stuffed with Monopoly money. Keen denies any collusion with the tout. He told The Mirror: "Brian was someone I had known for a while and trusted and then at the end of the day he ripped me off. The first time I realised the cash in the envelopes was fake was when the players opened them. "The envelopes had been sealed when I was given them in the car."   Keen refused to reveal the identity of the tout. He also refused to confirm the names of the players.   Keen left the club weeks later and is now with third division Carlisle United. Football Association spokesman Steve Double said: "We will look into any information which The Mirror can provide. We take the misuse of tickets, particularly by players and officials in a position of privilege, extremely seriously." The FA can trace tickets released through the club and sold at above face value.   The players concerned would face disciplinary action and a life-ban from receiving FA Cup tickets. A Newcastle United spokesman said: "We have received no notification about this from the Football Association and have no knowledge of this matter." So , just who are the players that sold their tickets, and who is BRIAN?. I reckon it was the following. In no particular order, This is just a wild guess with no substantiated evidence whatsoever ... I am entitled to my Opinion so here goes, see how many I get right when the 22 names are released. Keen, Anderson, Robinson, Caldwell, Beharall, Elliot, Brady, Burt, Dalglish, Perez, Saha, Talbot, Serrant, Hamilton, Kelly, Keidel, Green, Coppinger, Georgiadis, Hamman, McClen and BRIAN Kerr, If you can come up with a more likely 22 then E mail me. Mind you having said that, It all smells a bit fishy. We all know that players are a bit thick, but to receive 22 envelopes supposedly full of real money and not even check one of them is a bit stupid. Indeed unbelievable, not even the most stupid person would do that. Which leads me to the conclusion that, Either the Mirror has set up Keen, Which is very likely. Perhaps the confession was made to some buxom blonde at a nightclub on the Quayside. OR... Some kind of ticket sale was organised by Keen, and he decided to rip off his mates in the reserves by switching the real money with Monopoly money. ...Perhaps some of them are getting a bit Aggressive towards him so he has made up this story to get himself out of the Shit. OR .... It's true and perhaps the only envelope he checked was the one with his name on it. In which case he is the only guilty one as the rest of the players GAVE THEIR TICKETS AWAY. As for the tout codenamed "BRIAN".... Could this be him? seen leaving the training ground carpark a few days before the cup final? or what about these Dodgy looking guys? Also taken earlier on that day? Finally , just a thought , Was this not around the time when at the Chester Le Street training ground, someone walked into the dressing room and walked off with around £17,000 worth of stuff including Phillipe Albert's Rolex? Not one of the hard up players was it?