FA and BBC meet over 'bung' evidence

Officials from the Football Association and the BBC will meet on Monday to discuss the hand-over of any evidence of corruption collected by the Panorama programme.

Officials from the Football Association and the BBC will meet on Monday to discuss the hand-over of any evidence of corruption collected by the Panorama programme.

The FA have made two formal requests for the BBC to hand over all the evidence but now talks have been arranged for the start of next week.

A BBC spokesperson said: “We’ve been talking to the Football Association and have already arranged to meet with them on Monday.”

It is understood Panorama had initially wanted the FA and Premier League to make specific requests for information rather than pass over every piece of evidence to the investigations.

Meanwhile, the FA have also confirmed they will contact Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston and leading agent Jon Holmes to ask them to provide further information on their claims to have been offered and asked for bungs respectively.

The spokesman added: “We will also be contacting Karl Oyston and Jon Holmes to ask for further information.”

Oyston claimed he has been offered bribes by agents on a number of occasions, and that the issue of bungs is still a major problem in football, including the Premiership.

Holmes, chief executive of SFX Europe, claimed three managers, one of them currently at a Premiership club, had intimated they wanted a kickback.

The agent at the centre of the Panorama programme, Peter Harrison, has defended his activities.

Harrison claims he has never paid a bung and is intending to sue the BBC.

Bolton manager Sam Allardyce and his son Craig, a former agent, were at the centre of the BBC allegations of alleged illegal payments made during transfer deals.

Harrison said: “I’ve never given bungs. I’ve not given a bung to Sam Allardyce. I’ve never given a bung. I shall be suing the BBC.

“I haven’t heard from the FA. I shall be carrying on as an agent and I shall be doing whatever the FA want me to do.”

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