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Sep 15, 2018 · The legendary former Liverpool goalkeeper stood trial on match-fixing charges 21 years ago. It is safe to say that few footballers have felt it necessary to construct such a contraption.
- Ian Herbert
Dec 24, 2016 · Grobbelaar stayed in the Premier League after his release, joining Southampton, but a match-fixing storm was to engulf him that November.
- Career on The Wane
- How A Failed Safari Park Helped Bring Down Grobbelaar
- Which Matches Were Allegedly fixed?
- What Happened Next?
- The Defence For The Goalkeeper
- Aftermath
When it came to football in England, the 1980s had been the decade of Liverpool, and Grobbelaar was a key component of their success. He was their clown prince, walking on his hands around Wembley after another in a stream of trophy wins. Yet by the 1990s, the club was on the wane. Having gone through the tragedies at Heysel and Hillsborough, Liver...
As a veteran of the Rhodesian Army, businessman Chris Vincent had plenty in common with Grobbelaar. When he moved to England in 1989, the pair became good friends thanks to their shared love of going out on the town and trying to pull women. They later became business partners, as Vincent convinced his new buddy to invest heavily into an African ga...
There were five matches – three with Liverpool and two with Southampton – which were deemed to be suspicious based on things Grobbelaar spoke of while unwittingly being recorded. The earliest example occurred in November 1993, when Liverpool lost 3-0 to Newcastlethanks to a hat-trick from Andy Cole. One of his strikes slipped through Grobbelaar’s l...
The football world reacted with shock to the allegations. There had been a match fixing scandal in 1964, which saw 10 players jailed, but little hint of any similar impropriety in the British game in the intervening three decades. Ian St. John, a former Liverpool player and popular television personality, spoke to ITV News and said “you just can’t ...
Grobbelaar maintained his innocence throughout, and continues to do so to this day. While the secretly recorded footage suggested otherwise, he claimed he had been stringing Vincent along with lies about what he had done in order to later report him to the football authorities. In a 2005 interview with Observer Sport Monthly, Grobbelaar stated he r...
While Fashanu and Segers were content to leave the match fixing scandal behind them, Grobbelaar decided to sue The Sun for libel, and after a 16-day trial in 1999, he won. He was awarded £85,000and his sizeable legal bills were covered too. "It is a day that we can all relish and we got the verdict that we wanted," he said afterwards. "It was not t...
Oct 2, 2018 · Perhaps he saw so much carnage and death that Grobbelaar lost his bearings. His book offers a detailed rebuttal of the Sun’s match-fixing allegations against him in 1994. After two protracted trials which failed to deliver a verdict, Grobbelaar, John Fashanu and Hans Segers were cleared in 1997 .
Ex Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar at court during the football match fixing trial. \ Mandatory Credit: Allsport UK /Allsport Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
Mar 15, 1995 · Goalkeepers Bruce Grobbelaar and Hans Segers, and centre forward John Fashanu, were being kept in police custody overnight after being arrested by officers investigating allegations of...
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Sep 20, 2018 · Bruce Grobbelaar last donned a Liverpool shirt in 2016 for a legends game. Former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar says football "saved him" after he was forced to kill guerrilla...
