Match Fixing Allegations

Football betting specialists Blue Square are ‘convinced’ some players from both Grays and Forest Green manufactured the result of the final Conference match of the season between the two teams. More than £100,000 was staked on the fixture when Grays beat Rovers 2-1. The majority of the bets were laid at between 22-1 and 25-1 on Grays to be losing at the interval and win by the score at which the game finished. The betting, largely centred in the north-west and in Essex 24 hours before the game, alerted the bookies who suspended gambling on the match.

Football betting specialists Blue Square are ‘convinced’ some players from both Grays and Forest Green manufactured the result of the final Conference match of the season between the two teams. More than £100,000 was staked on the fixture when Grays beat Rovers 2-1. The majority of the bets were laid at between 22-1 and 25-1 on Grays to be losing at the interval and win by the score at which the game finished. The betting, largely centred in the north-west and in Essex 24 hours before the game, alerted the bookies who suspended gambling on the match. A north-west connection to a betting scam is already been investigated by the FA who have been examining a League Two match between Bury and Accrington Stanley last year. Blue Square’s Alan Alger said, ‘Everything points to match fixing. This looks very, very bad and could be the worst case of its kind ever.’ Liverpool-based Forest Green striker Andy Mulgan – currently under investigation for allegedly breaking betting rules while at Bury last season – has emphatically denied any involvement: ‘I would be a complete [idiot] to get involved with what’s going on with me recently – and even I am not that stupid.’

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