Matt Le Tissier lifted the lid on his part in an attempted betting scam 17 years ago in his autobiography Taking Le Tiss.
The former Southampton and England midfielder revealed he colluded with friends who placed a spread bet on the time of the first throw-in during a game against Wimbledon in 1995.
He planned to kick the ball into touch from the kick-off to beat bookies who were predicting it would take nearly a minute for it to go out
Le Tissier would have landed around £10,000 but team-mate Neil Shipperley, unaware of the bet, stopped the ball going out.
He admitted: “Spread betting had just started to be popular.
'I’d never have done anything that might have affected the outcome of the match, but I couldn’t see a problem with making a few quid on the first throw-in.
'The problem was Neil Shipperley knew nothing about the bet and headed it back. I charged around desperately trying to kick the ball out. We stood to lose a lot if it went much longer than 75 seconds.
'I had visions of guys coming to kneecap me. Eventually we got the ball out on 70 seconds. The neutral time meant we had neither won nor lost. I have never tried spread betting since.'
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Iamthewalrus wrote:Didn't Le-Tissier admit to this sort of thing in his biography?
SaintPowelly wrote:Iamthewalrus wrote:Didn't Le-Tissier admit to this sort of thing in his biography?
LeTiss has also denied Lundekvams claims that the whole team was in on it.
Matt Le Tissier ?@mattletiss7
aside from the 1incident mentioned in my book ive never been involved in any betting scams and had no idea of claus lundekvams claims
cricketfan90 wrote:opening up another can of worms
Aidan11 wrote:cricketfan90 wrote:opening up another can of worms
As I said earlier, nothing will come of it. At the moment there is one person who has said something controversial to sell his book. Unless others start admitting to stuff like this, that's about as far as it will go.
sussexpob wrote:Put simply, it doesnt make any sense for people to spend money on high profile matches.
Fixing a red card in Southampton v Man United would cost a fortune, yet the bookie would probably give the same odds on Solihull v Longchester Car COmpany United in the Rymans East Midlands Division 19..
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