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    Players banned over betting

    Dave Mannix - ex Liverpool reserves - banned for 10 months.
    Pete Cavanagh - ex Liverpool youth - charged but case still to be heard

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot..._3/8162844.stm

    Four professional footballers have been banned from playing for up to a year and fined for breaching betting rules.

    The Football Association investigation centred on Accrington Stanley's League Two game against Bury in May 2008.

    Chester's Jay Harris, who was then at Accrington, has been banned for a year and fined £5,000 over that FA charge.

    His then team-mates Robert Williams and David Mannix have been banned for eight months and 10 months and ex-Bury player Andrew Mangan banned for five months.

    The case against another Accrington player, Peter Cavanagh, will be heard at a later date.

    Williams, who remains at Accrington, was fined £3,500 with Mannix, who is now at Chester, given a £4,000 fine and Mangan, who is now at Forest Green Rovers, £2,000.

    The five players were all charged with betting on a victory for Bury in the game, which was Accrington's last game of the 2007/2008 season.

    Some bookmakers stopped taking bets on the match after noticing unusual betting activity.

    In addition, Harris was fined £500 for betting on at least one other match after he had moved to Chester.

    Nicholas Stewart QC, chairman of the independent FA regulatory commission, which carried out the investigation, said in a statement: "The regulatory commission have serious concerns that the outcome of the match may have been fixed, although none of the players were charged with these offences.

    #2
    Dear me. Was it Dave or Danny Mannix who went to some random Norwegian club? Think it was the other one, Danny...?
    Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’

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      #3
      Yeah Mannix went to some second division team in norway and lasted six months
      I think it's a foul, and if the ref gives it. He got to give a penalty. I know it's outside the box, but you see them given that close to the area. So if the ref gives it he's got to give the penalty as it so close to the area. But I think it's a penalty. Robbie Savage 8/11/06

      Are you watching Manchester United? Are you watching Chelsea? This is Liverpool F.C taking over the bloody world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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        #4
        Haha did he. That's five months longer than I thought he'd last. Where did he go after that? Jail?
        Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’

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          #5
          The English game is so corrupt

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            #6
            Originally posted by fah-q View Post
            The English game is so corrupt
            Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’

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