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CORRUPTION SCANDAL IN THE PREMIERSHIP An undercover camera revealed bungs being asked & offered by Premiership managers and players' agents	By Ovidiu Panzariu, Sports Editor 20th of September 2006, 09:43 GMT Adjust text size:


After the Italian Match-Fixing scandal earlier this summer, it's time for England to get a closer look at its wrongdoers inside football. And it was a television undercover film - produced by BBC - that showed illegal approaches made by Premiership managers in order for their teams to facilitate transfers. The best term to describe it is a "bung". Almost 18 former and current managers inside the Premiership were caught on undercover camera claiming bungs for certain transfers. Meaning they were given a certain cut to facilitate transfers from one team to another, with players still under contract. The main Premiership managers involved in the scandal are Bolton Wanderers' Sam Allardyce and Portsmouth's Harry Redknapp. Among them, a Chelsea official is too on the public eye for participating and offering a bung for transferring Middlesbrough's youth star 15-year-old Nathan Porritt. "The integrity of sport needs to be upheld and there are proper rules for managers and agents. These allegations damage the integrity of football and need to be looked at properly. The program alleged they had names of 18 managers who had received illegal payments, and I think they should give all their findings over to the Lord Stevens inquiry. This reinforces what I have been trying to do to bring in greater regulation into football through the European Football Review", said English Sports minister Richard Caborn. Premier League officials also decided to take actions towards BBC findings. A statement from the English football body red: "The Premier League have asked for the BBC to make their evidence available to the Stevens inquiry. The Premier League takes all allegations of this nature seriously, which is why we launched an inquiry into alleged irregular payments in transfers back in January of this year". "There are allegations concerning other potential breaches of industry rules in the program that fall outside the terms of reference of Lord Stevens' inquiry. Again we request the BBC pass on their evidence in order that the FA and ourselves can examine all aspects of these allegations in order to determine the most appropriate course of action that each body should take". Premiership's biggest scandal concerning bungs - during the past few years - happened in 2005, when Chelsea's manager Jose Mourinho tried to offer Ashley Cole a deal while the player was still under contract with Arsenal. Football Association's regulations clearly state that "an agent may never so approach a player who is under contract with a club with the aim of persuading him to terminate his contract prematurely or to flout the rights and duties stipulated in the contract". Chelsea is also facing FA investigations over alleged illegal approach on Leeds' youngsters Tom Taiwo and Michael Wood, who signed new deals with Chelsea although they were under contract with Leeds United Academy.

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