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Match Fixing In English Football
Over the course of the game's history, several incidents relating to match-fixing in English football have taken place. 19th Century Test match collusion From 1893–1898, a form of play-offs known as ''test matches'' were used to decide promotion and relegation between the two divisions of the Football League. Initially they were direct ties between two teams, but from 1896 a round-robin format was used. In the 1898 test matches, earlier results meant Stoke and Burnley went into the final test match knowing a draw would result in promotion for both teams. In their 0–0 draw, the pair made little attempt to hide their collusion. The ''Athletic News'' reported that "the teams could have done without goalkeepers, so anxious were the forwards not to score". The Football League resolved the ensuing scandal by expanding the First Division from 16 to 18 clubs, allowing promotion for all four of the clubs who participated in the test matches. The test match system was then abandoned. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promotion And Relegation
In sports leagues, promotion and relegation is a process where teams are transferred between multiple divisions based on their performance for the completed season. Leagues that use promotion and relegation systems are often called open leagues. In a system of promotion and relegation, the best-ranked team(s) in the lower division are ''promoted'' to the higher division for the next season, and the worst-ranked team(s) in the higher division are ''relegated'' to the lower division for the next season. In some leagues, playoffs or qualifying rounds are also used to determine rankings. This process can continue through several levels of divisions, with teams being exchanged between adjacent divisions. During the season, teams that are high enough in the league table that they would qualify for promotion are sometimes said to be in the ''promotion zone'', and those at the bottom are in the ''relegation zone'' or Reg zone (colloquially the ''drop zone'' or ''facing the drop''). An a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enoch West
Enoch James West (31 March 1886 – September 1965), nicknamed Knocker, was an English footballer who played as a centre forward for Nottingham Forest and Manchester United before being banned for match fixing. West was born in Hucknall Torkard in Nottinghamshire. He started his career for Sheffield United but failed to break into the first team. Club career Nottingham Forest He transferred in 1905 for a fee of £5 to Nottingham Forest and made his debut on 16 September 1905 in the 3–2 victory at home to Bury. West scored 14 league goals in his first season (1905/06) as Forest were relegated to the Second Division on goal average. In his second season (1906/07) Forest finished top of the Second Division partly due to West's 14 league goals. He top scored in 1907/08 (29 league goals) and 1908/09 (22 league goals) outscoring Grenville Morris. In the 1907/08 season he got 4 First Division hat-tricks including all 4 goals in the game against Sunderland on 9 November 1907. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Mangan
Andrew Francis Mangan (born 30 August 1986) is an English former footballer who played as a striker. He is currently a first-team coach at Bristol Rovers. Career Blackpool Born in Liverpool, Mangan began his career with Blackpool at the age of 15. He was with the club for three years, scoring 49 goals in reserve and youth team football. Mangan made his professional debut at the age of 17 in a 1–0 defeat to Chesterfield on 24 April 2004. He made just one further professional appearance at Blackpool under Steve McMahon's management and his replacement, Colin Hendry, loaned Mangan to Northern Premier League Premier Division side Hyde United. He scored two goals in seven appearances, helping the club to secure the league title. Mangan was released by Blackpool at the end of the 2004–05 season. Accrington Stanley Mangan was heavily linked with a return to Hyde the following season, but he rejected them in favour of a full-time contract with Conference Premier side Accrington ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cavanagh
Peter Joseph Cavanagh (born 14 October 1981) is an English football coach and former player who is currently first-team coach at Plymouth Argyle.https://uk.linkedin.com/in/peter-cavanagh-93817489 Before joining Fleetwood in 2010 he played for Accrington Stanley, where he was made the youngest ever captain of Accrington after joining the club in 2001. He was an England C international in the 2003–04 season. His Accrington career ended in 2009 after he received a ban from the FA for betting against his own team. Playing career Accrington Stanley Cavanagh was born in Bootle, Merseyside, England. He was part of the youth team at Liverpool, but left for Accrington Stanley in September 2001 after realising he did not have a future at Anfield. He was appointed as captain soon after joining in 2001, and scored 22 goals in 226 league games in an eight-year career. He skippered the club to the Northern Premier League Cup and Lancashire FA Challenge Trophy in 2002, the Northern Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbie Williams (footballer Born 1979)
Robert "Robbie" Williams (born 12 April 1979 in Liverpool, Merseyside) is an English footballer playing for Warrington Town. Accrington Stanley Williams signed for Accrington Stanley in July 1999 from Liverpool County Football Combination side St Dominics. He played for the club for ten years, making 238 league appearances for the club, and picking up championship winning medals for the Northern Premier Division One in 2000, the Northern Premier League in 2003 and the Conference National in 2006, seeing the club promoted to the Football League. Illegal betting and subsequent ban In April 2009, Williams, who at the time was the club's longest serving player, along Stanley teammates Peter Cavanagh, Jay Harris and David Mannix and Bury player Andy Mangan were charged with breaching the Football Association's betting rules, with some accused of gambling thousands of pounds on their team to lose. The scandal related to Accrington Stanley's last game of the last League Two season, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Mannix
David Christopher Mannix (born 24 September 1985) is an English retired footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently assistant manager and the club's academy director at Bangor City. International career Mannix was a youth England international at under 15/16, 17 and 20 levels and gained 15 caps in total. He scored his first international goal against Poland in a 5–0 victory on 22 November 2001. David was also part of the England team in the 2002 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship who reached the semi-final in Denmark and finished in 3rd place. Playing career Mannix is a product of Liverpool Football Club's Academy, and played regularly for the reserves, making over 60 appearances. Mannix was one of the youngest ever players to play for Liverpool reserves: he was 15 and was moved to train at Melwood with the first team aged 16. His progress was restricted by a number of serious injuries, including an injury to his right knee in 2001. He was sent to the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Harris (footballer Born 1987)
James William Harris (born 15 April 1987) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Warrington Town. Career Everton Jay Harris started his career as a youth player with Everton, he became a senior player in 2006 but left Goodison Park. Accrington Stanley In the summer of 2006 Harris joined Accrington Stanley. He made his full Accrington debut against Barnet on 12 August 2006. In May 2007 he signed a new two-year contract, but at the end of the 2007–08 season, he was released by the club, together with ten other first-team players. Chester City On 25 June 2008, he joined Chester City on a two-year contract along with Accrington teammate David Mannix. He featured in more than 30 of Chester's games in 2008–09 as the club suffered relegation from the Football League. In February 2010 Chester were expelled from the Conference for breaching five league rules and so the club was liquidated leaving Harris without a club. On 7 April 2009, Harris was o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bury F
Bury may refer to: *The burial of human remains * -bury, a suffix in English placenames Places England * Bury, Cambridgeshire, a village * Bury, Greater Manchester, a town, historically in Lancashire ** Bury (UK Parliament constituency) (1832–1950) ***Bury and Radcliffe (UK Parliament constituency) (1950–1983) ***Bury North (UK Parliament constituency), from 1983 *** Bury South (UK Parliament constituency), from 1983 ** County Borough of Bury, 1846–1974 ** Metropolitan Borough of Bury, from 1974 ** Bury Rural District, 1894–1933 * Bury, Somerset, a hamlet * Bury, West Sussex, a village and civil parish ** Bury (UK electoral ward) * Bury St Edmunds, a town in Suffolk, commonly referred to as Bury * New Bury, a suburb of Farnworth in the Bolton district of Greater Manchester Elsewhere * Bury, Hainaut, Belgium, a village in the commune of Péruwelz, Wallonia * Bury, Quebec, Canada, a municipality * Bury, Oise, France, a commune Sports * Bury (professional wrestling), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accrington Stanley F
Accrington is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England. It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, east of Preston, north of Manchester and is situated on the culverted River Hyndburn. Commonly abbreviated by locals to "Accy", the town has a population of 35,456 according to the 2011 census. Accrington is a former centre of the cotton and textile machinery industries. The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, "The Accrington NORI" (iron), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower; famous for Accrington Stanley F.C. and the Haworth Art Gallery which holds Europe's largest collection of Tiffany glass. History Origin of the name The name Accrington appears to be Anglo-Saxon in origin. The earliest citing appears in the Parish of Whalley records of 850; where it is written ''Akeringastun''. In later records, the name variously appears as ''Ak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Pagnam
Fred Pagnam (4 September 1891 – 1 March 1962) was an English footballer and manager. Pagnam played as a forward in the Football League for clubs Huddersfield Town, Blackpool, Liverpool, Arsenal, Cardiff City and Watford, and in non-league football for Lytham, Blackpool Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers, Southport Central and Gainsborough Trinity. As manager, he took charge of Watford, Galatasaray, the Turkish national team, and several clubs in the Netherlands. Playing career Pagnam, the son of a bank manager, was born in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, where he attended Baines Grammar School. He played football for Birchall Boys' Club and for non-league clubs Lytham and Blackpool Wednesday before joining Huddersfield Town in 1910. He played for the reserves but not for the first team, and after a spell with Doncaster Rovers of the Midland League, he joined Southport Central of the Central League. By early 1913, the club was struggling financially, and the directors offered the players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Fairfoul
Thomas Fairfoul (16 January 1881 – 1952) was a Scottish footballer who played as a right-half. Born in West Calder, West Lothian, Fairfoul made over 200 senior appearances in Scottish football, playing for Kilmarnock and Third Lanark, FitbaStats before moving south of the border to join in 1913. Record of pre-war Scottish League Players John Litster / Scottish Football Historian magazine, October 2012 He spent two years with the club, where his fortunes were mixed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
