Esmond Million (born 15 March 1938) is a former
football
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goalkeeper.
Playing career
Million played for
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough ( ) is a town on the southern bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, England. It is near the North York Moors national park. It is the namesake and main town of its local borough council area.
Until the early 1800s, the a ...
from 1956 to 1962. He joined
Bristol Rovers
Bristol Rovers Football Club are a professional football club in Bristol, England. They compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system.
They play home matches at the Memorial Stadium in Horfield, they have been c ...
in 1962.
In April 1963, he took a £300 bribe to throw a match. The ploy failed and Million was exposed amid the
1964 British football match-fixing scandal. After having been banned from football for life, he emigrated with his family to Canada where he became active in professional ice hockey. He would eventually return to Britain and is now thought to be living in
Tunbridge Wells
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,
Kent
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.
Rovers fiasco exposed bigger scandal
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References
1938 births
Living people
Middlesbrough F.C. players
Bristol Rovers F.C. players
Men's association football goalkeepers
English men's footballers
Sportspeople involved in betting scandals
Footballers from Ashington
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