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Sep 20, 2018 · Former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar tells the BBC about his war experiences, the horrors of the Heysel disaster and his match-fixing ordeal.
A journalist from The Sun newspaper tells a court that taped conversations by former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar prove its allegations of match-fixing.
On 10 November 1994, [20] Grobbelaar was accused by the British tabloid newspaper The Sun of match fixing during his time at Liverpool to benefit a betting syndicate, after being caught on videotape discussing match-fixing.
- 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 · Bruce Grobbelaar says he ‘tried to be Inspector Clouseau’ when approached about match-fixing. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian. I am not convinced entirely by Grobbelaar’s account.
Bruce Grobbelaar was born in South Africa in 1957. He made his Liverpool debut in 1981 and completed more than 600 appearances for the Anfield club in 13 years, winning six League titles, a European Cup and the FA Cup and League Cup three times.
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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.
