{"id":161230,"date":"2019-10-18T15:34:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161230"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T14:34:25","slug":"former-man-utd-manager-sir-alex-ferguson-accused-of-match-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161230","title":{"rendered":"Former Man Utd manager, Sir Alex Ferguson accused of match fixing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Alex-Ferguson-sends-powerful-message-to-Cristiano-Ronaldo.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A football agent, Giuseppe Pagliara, has claimed he gave former Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, a \u00a330,000 Rolex in exchange for fixing a Champions League match, according to the UK Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year-old also told an undercover reporter posing as a businesswoman, that Sir Alex worked with agents to make money from transfer deals.<\/p>\n<p>The claims were heard during the opening of the bribery trial of Pagliara, fellow agent Dax Price, 48, and Scot Tommy Wright, 53, the former assistant head coach of Barnsley.<\/p>\n<p>Describing one meeting in Manchester in June 2016, prosecutor Brian O\u2019Neill QC told Southwark Crown Court yesterday: \u201cPagliara launched into what could only be described as a diatribe of Sir Alex Ferguson\u2026 He claimed that he had paid Ferguson before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neill QC added: \u201cTowards the end of the meeting Pagliara launched into what could only be described as a diatribe of Sir Alex Ferguson, accusing him of having conspired with Pagliara to fix the result of a football match between Juventus, a club which Pagliara was associated with, and Manchester United in the Champions League for which Pagliara had thanked him with a gold 30 grand Rolex watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPagliara went on to accuse Sir Alex Ferguson of having taken money as part of transfer deals. He claimed that he had paid Ferguson before.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A football agent, Giuseppe Pagliara, has claimed he gave former Manchester United manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, a \u00a330,000 Rolex in exchange for fixing a Champions League match, according to the UK Mirror. The 64-year-old also told an undercover reporter posing as a businesswoman, that Sir Alex worked with agents to make money from transfer deals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,8957],"class_list":["post-161230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-sir-alex-ferguson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}