Piegate coach Wayne Shaw banned for two MONTHS after eating during Sutton United vs Arsenal FA Cup clash
Keeper has been fined £375 and immediately suspended from all football and all football-related activity
WAYNE SHAW – the pie-chomping former Sutton United goalkeeper – has been banned from football for two months for breaching betting rules.
The shot stopper ate a pie during his side’s FA Cup clash with Arsenal last season and a Gambling Commission probe has ruled he influenced a football betting market and brought the game into disrepute.
Shaw has been fined £375 and immediately suspended from all football and all football-related activity for two months after he was charged in relation to a breach of FA Rules.
It was alleged the former Sutton United goalkeeper intentionally influenced a football betting market during The Emirates FA Cup Fifth Round tie against Arsenal on Monday 20 February 2017, contrary to FA Rule E5(a).
The charge, which he denied, was found proven following an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing today [Wednesday 6 September 2017].
When the veteran was sacked by the non-league club he denied making money from the stunt and claimed to have been hit with depression.
Shaw told the BBC: “My world fell in
“I was in tears. I had never been sacked in my life. It's on my mind every day, it probably will be for a long time.
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“I've been through depression. I wasn't sleeping right, I could feel myself getting stressed. And I've still got that knot in my stomach.
“The following afternoon it was a situation where I either resigned or they sacked me. No one asked for my side of the story.
“The club's knee-jerk reaction was that they wanted nothing to do with it.
“I haven't made any money and my friends haven't made any money.
“I probably got carried away, after a whole career of having the mickey taken out of me. That was all it was meant to be.”