The Portsmouth F. C defender was allegedly caught on tape telling an undercover reporter with The Sun UK magazine that he was paid £70,000 to be sent off the field during a championship match on February 23rd 2013.
Footage from the football match showed Sam Sodje bizarrely hitting the crotch of Oldham Athletic's player Jose Baxter, repeatedly for no reason which ultimately earned him a red card.
Sam admitted to the undercover reporter that his actions were all arranged for him to be sent off the pitch and added that he and his brother Stephen can even get players sent off – an event which can cripple a team's chances in a game – for between £50,000 and £70,000.
Sam practically ended his football career by collecting £12,000 from the undercover reporter, on tape, for other match fixings.The police are now investigating the findings handed over to them by the Sun on Sunday which contains information gathered over a period of four months by the undercover reporter posing as a middleman for a betting syndicate based in the far east of England.
Let's stop crooks like him from ruining this beautiful game!
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