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Ex Saints boss Harry Redknapp named in newspaper investigation into football
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Former Saints boss Harry Redknapp has today been named in the latest newspaper investigation into football.
Reports in the Daily Telegraph today allege that Redknapp claimed that players at a team he managed gambled on the result of one of their matches.
Betting on football by current professional players in England is prohibited by the FA, with a worldwide ban on doing so enforced since August 2014.
Redknapp says he was unaware at the time that his players were betting on the outcome of the match and denies any wrongdoing.
The paper does not suggest that Redknapp knew the players were betting at the time of the match.
Redknapp managed Saints from 2004 to 2005 and has also managed West Ham, Portsmouth, Tottenham and Queens Park Rangers.
Undercover reporters filmed Redknapp without his knowledge as part of an investigation into British football.
The article does not identify the match or players in question, or the year in which the fixture occurred.
The newspaper claims Redknapp’s team were odds against to win a match but secured a comfortable victory.
The report comes just a day after Saints assistant coach Eric Black found himself caught up in the newspaper investigation.
The former Aberdeen striker was captured on video at a New Forest hotel talking to an undercover reporter purporting to be a representative of a Far East firm looking to invest in English football.
The meeting was arranged by Scott McGarvey, the football agent who also teed-up Sam Allardyce’s now ill-fated meeting with Daily Telegraph undercover reporters which cost him his job as England manager.
Mr McGarvey is a good friend of Mr Black’s from their days in Scotland together.
The video appeared to show Mr Black and Mr McGarvey discussing managers and coaches in the lower leagues and how they could possibly be persuaded to identify players who could be signed up on management contracts.
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