So which player was it?

That fixed a game to pay off a gambling debt

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...pay-off-gambling-debt-of-16350000-804512.html

 

I hope the authorities find out and ban him for life.....
Which ever club he plays for their fans have paid there hard earned to watched there beloved team. Then some ***** to basically trow a game... Not on at all!!!!!!!

 

Not Matthew Etherington, he has been in Sporting Chance recently but hasn't been red carded. Not Roy Carroll, he has been in rehab for gambling problems and once owed a team mate £30k but hasn't been red carded either.

 

Joey Barton?

 

Good call, he was treated at Sporting Chance and received a red card in 2006 against Bolton, not sure whether there were three other yellows that day.

 

Last paragraph, haven't really read it all so don't know about yellows

Saturday Dec 23 2006 12:00
Nicolas Anelka ensured there was no Christmas cheer for Manchester City on his return to his former club.
The Bolton Wanderers striker silenced the boo boys as he scored two first-half goals which heaped more pressure on City, whose worrying slide down the Premiership table continued following back-to-back home defeats.

Anelka who failed to find the net in his first eight Premiership matches for Bolton, has now found the scoring groove with five in the league and six in total for the campaign.Micah Richards and Claudio Reyna were ruled out by injury, while Georgios Samaras was relegated to the substitutes bench for City.

Manager Stuart Pearce brought Nedum Onuoha into defence and Stephen Ireland and Ishmael Miller into midfield, enabling Darius Vassell to switch inside from the flank to partner Paul Dickov up front.

Bolton were without the suspended Kevin Davies and the injured Stelios Giannakopoulos as Tal Ben Haim and El Hadji Diouf returned to the starting line-up.

Anelka took only eight minutes to break the deadlock with an excellent finish to a neat passing move which he had begun.Nicky Hunt provided the final pass and Anelka found the net with a clinical finish low inside the near post of keeper Nick Weaver.

City were unlucky not to be on level terms moments later when Bolton keeper Jussi Jaaskelainen made a brilliant save to keep out Dickov's close-range header, with the Scot claiming the ball had crossed the goal-line.

And not long after City had a penalty appeal rejected after Onuoha's shot appeared to strike the hand of Henrik Pedersen.

Bolton doubled their advantage against sorry City midway through the opening period with an effort he could not miss.

Pedersen played the ball in low from the left and it eluded the entire City defence, leaving Anelka completely free at the far post to pick his spot low to the left of Weaver.

And City left the field at half-time to what is becoming an all-too-familiar chorus of jeers from their disgruntled fans.

Jaaskelainen denied City for a second time early in the second half with an athletic save low to his left to turn away Joey Barton's free-kick.

Pearce made a double substitution ten minutes after the re-start as Ben Thatcher and Dickov were replaced by Samaras and Ousmane Dabo as City switched to a 3-5-2 formation.

City were denied a second penalty shortly before the hour when television replays revealed Abdoulaye Meite failed to win the ball and clearly fouled Vassell from behind.

Despite Pearce's tactical re-jig, City were unable to gain a foothold back in the game in the final half-hour as Bolton defended resolutely to hold on to their lead.

And City's troubles increased in the dying minutes when Barton was sent off following a crude lunge at Abdoulaye Faye.

Though contact was not made, referee Mike Riley produced a straight red card so Barton will now miss City's remaining three games of the holiday period.

 

RE: Last paragraph, haven't really read it all so don't know about yellows

There were three yellows but not all Man City yellows.

 

Stats here

English Premier - KO 15:00
Man City 0 (0) - 2(2) Bolton
Anelka 8
Anelka 25

on 23-12-2006



Man City: Weaver ,Onuoha ,Dunne ,Distin ,Thatcher (Dabo ,56 ) ,Trabelsi ,Barton (sent off 87),Ireland ,Miller ,Vassell ,Dickov (Samaras ,55)
Subs not used: Isaksson,Jordan,Beasley,

Bolton: Jaaskelainen ,Hunt ,Meite ,Ben-Haim ,Pedersen (Gardner ,87 ) ,Nolan ,Campo ,Faye ,Speed ,Anelka ,Diouf (Vaz Te ,72)
Subs not used Walker,Teymourian,Tal,

Bookings: Dickov (Man City) Diouf ,Faye ,Hunt (Bolton)

Attendance: 40157


Referee: M A Riley (W. Yorkshire)

 

don't think it was a premiership match

The article says that the player once played in the premiership, i imagine it would have mentioned that he was playing in the premiership at the time if it was the case. It also keeps referring to it being a 'british' game which suggests it wasn't England. My bet is scottish premiership

 

Keith Gillespie nt

 

not been sent off in a match where three players were booked nt

 

Robbie Fowler ?

Then again, he's more than wealthy enough to cover 50k

 

plus he's not been sent off

Good thinking though, it's obviously someone that isn't a millionnaire. Possibly someone that was a fringe premiership player. My guess is a scottish cup game

 

try Francis Jeffers

he was on SSN yesterday at that Sporting Chance clinic, "gambling issues" was what he owned up to. pretty obvious to me

 

RE: try Francis Jeffers

Not been red carded.

 

RE: try Francis Jeffers

He's been sent off twice in his career, and both times 5players got booked.

 

RE: try Francis Jeffers

Not in past couple of years.

 

Did Gazza get sent off for Kettering ? nt

 

RE: Did Gazza get sent off for Kettering ? nt

Don't think he played any games for them, wasn't he just manager.

Last played 2005.

 

Anyone trying to work this out for proper?