There seems to be a fair amount of speculation at the minute that Eddie Howe and the Newcastle United owners, may be targeting Ivan Toney as a summer window signing.The first, of course, is that he was our player untilfinally decided that he had to sell him to Peterborough in 2018 following a series of short term loan moves to Barnsley, Shrewsbury, Scunthorpe and Wigan.
All three players bet against Wednesday in the game and Ipswich duly won 2 – 0. Layne later claimed that Ipswich won fair and square and that he didn’t know what he would have done if they hadn’t. Also, Kay was named man of the match but thus didn’t help their defence, however, when the story was broken by the Sunday People in 1964. All three players were jailed for four months and received life bans from involvement in football.
The plan went on to involve, amongst others, Série A clubs Avellino, Bologna, Lazio, Milan and Perugia, as well as Palermo and Taranto of Série B. It wasn’t exactly lucrative, though, with Trinca reputedly losing over 100 million lire by February of the following year. Maybe that helped prompt him to file a report with the Public Prosecutor in Rome naming 27 players and 13 clubs in his scheme.
Three years before the Totonero Scandal broke, the English public and FA were shocked to find that Don Revie had resigned as England Manager and was taking up a role with the UAE for a then unheard of salary of £340,000 a year.