FORMER Spurs chairman Sir Alan Sugar last night called for football's bung-merchants to be thrown in jail but predicted the FA investigation of Mike Newell's corruption claims will end in a ...

Former Spurs chairman Sir Alan Sugar has claimed that a bung culture is still rife in English football. Sugar, who sold his stake in Tottenham last year, made allegations about illegal payments in ...

He told me he was interested in a player at Nottingham Forest by the name of Teddy Sheringham, but there was a problem because, as Venables put it: “Cloughie wants a bung.” ...

Alan Sugar still carries the scars of his battles with Terry Venables. ... Venables told him Brian Clough, the Forest manager, liked a bung, preferably in a brown paper bag at a motorway cafe.

Graham insisted that he had received "unsolicited gifts" and not an illegal bung from Hauge - an assertion he later repeated in his autobiography. But Graham's claims did not stop him being punished ...