Premier League - FA to investigate alleged bribe
Eurosport - Fri, 04 Apr 12:16:00 2008
The FA has announced that it will investigate reports that a former Premier League player accepted £50,000 to fix a match.
The player who reportedly accepted the bribe got himself deliberately sent off and persuaded three team-mates to get booked in a match that occurred "in Britain", according to The Independent newspaper.
It is alleged that, in exchange, a bookmaker agreed to write off a £50,000 debt which the player had built up.
An FA spokesman said: "We will be making inquiries about this story.
"First we need to find out if the match was inside our jurisdiction - the story says it was in Britain, but we don't know if it was in England."
FA rules forbid players from betting on matches or competitions in which they will compete.
The case came to light at a seminar about gambling at the Sporting Chance Clinic in Hampshire this week.
The player at the centre of the allegations has been treated at Sporting Chance, which receives financial backing from both the FA and the Professional Footballers Association.
You know, I wondered why Mascherano seemed so keen to run 20 yards to argue with the ref when he had aleady been yellow carded. I wonder 
