At the time I just thought he was doing it for a laugh. Playing up to the stereotype etc but shame on him and The Sun. It's tainted a special day for Sutton. Players like Rory Deacon, Jamie Collins and Adam May deserved the headlines this morning, not him.
It's all bollox - fatty eats a pork pie, there's all hell to play - Ibra dives and cheats goals and penalties and no-one says **** all
The sun shirt sponsored them and have used this to get loads of publicity. The situation with betting is comical when you can offer odds on something that is so easily manipulated. I'm sure people make plenty on inside info on this sort of nonsense. Plenty of his mates will have bet on this.
The difference is - and it's quite key in this case - there was no betting market on 'Ibra dives and cheats goals and penalties'.
It says a lot that the bookies saw less chance of a fat **** eating a pie than they did in the liklihood of Ibra diving..
it's no different to a player purposefully booting the ball into the touch straight after kick off for a throwin bet for example
He's been completely ****ed over here. Sun Bets essentially promote to everyone about him eating a pie and coerce him to do it. Think about it, If he doesn't eat the pie, is he also in the wrong for manipulating the outcome? Technically people would have lost money and he would have known that. It's a farce. Sun Bets should be investigated for setting odds on and promoting a bet that a not very wealthy fat bloke can manipulate at will. He's just been dumped on by the crooked regime that is football betting.
Did Roarie Deacon not spend time in our reserves? I don't think he had a contract, but I seem to remember him being here under Pearson.
Sun Bets 100% to blame in my opinion, latching on to the fixture in a parasitic manner and tainting the whole event for their own gain. Has Polly burned his copy yet?
I think people (Well me anyway) were more laughing at RP than thinking he was funny. The real star of that show was the lad on the moped.
The bet came about because Wayne ate a pie during the Leeds game. This bloke has done more for non league football than many. He was the focus of attention from the media and Sutton did nothing to stop it. The bet was in the public domain before the game and no one thought it was wrong then. He has lost more than just a place in the team, he has lost his job. This is from the Daily Mail 5 days ago. The big man is Wayne Shaw, Sutton United's substitute goalkeeper, goalkeeping coach and tackler of multiple other odd-jobs in between, from caretaker of their plastic pitch to live-in community liaison officer. The thing is, he has not played a minute in his club's wonderful run to the fifth round of the FA Cup and is highly unlikely to change that against Arsenal on Monday. But by virtue of the television cameras in the past two rounds, this 46-year-old has inadvertently become one of the faces of a great Cup adventure. He is the former ice cream man who has gone on to feature in news bulletins from Argentina to Hungary; a 20st stopper labelled the roly poly goalie by others and sometimes by himself as well. It can sound unkind, except he says it isn't. 'My father-in-law thinks people are taking the mickey, but it's all a laugh,' says Shaw. 'If it gets Sutton a bit more attention, then great. The club deserve any attention they get, however it comes. The 20st stopper is happy to be called the 'roly poly goalie' if it means Sutton getting attention Shaw has a role as a player but he is much more than a goalkeeper for the National League side. I gave up being an ice cream man so I could just work here 'Me? I've done nothing but sit there and be myself. Turns out I'm a big guy who people seem to want to look at. 'It wouldn't be the FA Cup if it wasn't for the unusual stories and Sutton is a great, unusual story with lovely people.' Shaw is one of those delightful people with an amusing tale to tell after three decades in football. 'I wasn't meant to be a goalkeeper,' he says. 'I was a striker on associate schoolboy forms at Southampton. I remember going to a tournament in Sweden with Alan Shearer in our team. Shaw is also caretaker of Sutton's plastic pitch as well as the live-in community liaison officer 'Three months later he was in the first team and scored a hat-trick on his debut — decent player now I think of it. 'I left for an apprenticeship at Reading and then joined Basingstoke before going on loan to Bashley. One day they had a goalkeeping dilemma and the manager said I had to buy a pair of gloves. We beat Salisbury 1-0 and I've been in goal ever since.' For 20 years or more Shaw has worked his way around non-league football, a well-regarded goalkeeper and predictable source of attention at Sutton, Gosport, Eastleigh, Totton and several others. 'People tend to look at me and think they are in for a good game,' he says. 'They aren't so happy when this 20st juggernaut charges up from behind them to get a high ball! 'I did actually take someone out once by accident and it wasn't pretty. It was a game at Fleet Town and the ball has come over the top and I cleaned out the striker as he came through, full body contact. Not intentional, but he is lying there sparked out. I had to pretend to be injured to avoid a red card. 'I obviously get banter from the fans as well. Usually it is good natured but sometimes less so.' In December 2013, when he was warming up before a Sutton match against Kingstonian, a visiting supporter made a series of weight jibes. Shaw vaulted the hoardings and butted him. He was sacked by the club before being re-signed to Paul Doswell's coaching staff and squad a year later. He's been there ever since. 'I had a bad day at work,' he says. 'Usually it's good fun and banter but sometimes it gets too personal.' Shaw has worked his way around non-league football at Sutton, Gosport, Eastleigh and Totton Shaw's football these days is mostly limited to coaching, although he has been on the bench for four of Sutton's five FA Cup ties so far. His role is diverse. 'Sutton has a 3G pitch, which we lease out to the public all day,' says Shaw. 'I meet the people coming in, make them welcome. 'Then, every 10 hours that the pitch is in use, I go out and sweep it because that's what you have to do to look after an artificial surface. 'I live down in the south so I come up here to the stadium to work Monday to Wednesday and then train on Thursday before going back home. 'I have to turn off the floodlights each night at about 10pm so I sleep here on the couch on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Not sure if that's the case for the Arsenal boys — I'll ask them. 'I love it here. I used to work for my uncle for about 23 years as an ice cream man but stopped not so long ago so I could just work here. 'It's a great club. From the manager to everyone behind the scenes — all genuine.' It brings the big man to a cracking yarn about Jamie Collins, the team captain who scored the winner against Leeds. 'What a guy,' he says. 'Night before the game, the plan was to meet at 8pm for dinner. JC, though, is hungry and decided to have burger and chips and a couple of pints of Guinness at seven. 'At 8.30pm he is tucking into his pasta and chicken with everyone else and six pints later decided to call it a night. OK then. 'Next morning, he is already up at 7.30am having a full fry-up. Then he has a kip before a second full fry-up. 'How does the game go? He scores the winner. Great bloke, great club.' Shaw is rocking back on the couch again. 'The more he eats the better he gets,' he says. 'I'd like to say it's the same for all of us.' Arsenal are next on the menu.
He was our local ice cream man. As I said before, I know of him more than know him. He does the spin classes at my local gym. No one will say a bad word against him here, that's for sure. This is genuine by the way... please log in to view this image
I've heard that it was a shin of beef pie. He's sorry he ate it and his teammates have forgiven him. Shaw's shank redemption. That's all that matters.
