Tommy Wright to appear in court on bribery charge
Carlisle United assistant manager Tommy Wright is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates Court on Monday.
The 52-year-old is charged with two counts of bribery while he was assistant manager at Barnsley in 2016.
Football agents Dax Price and Giuseppe Pagliara will also appear in court, charged with paying and facilitating a bribe.
All three men have previously denied any wrongdoing.
The charges were brought against the three men after the Daily Telegraph’s investigation into corruption in football.
It is claimed Wright held three separate meetings with a Daily Telegraph reporter posing as a representative of a fictitious Far East company, Pagliara and Price, who were acting as the firm’s consultants.
Pagliara was banned by the Italian Football Association in 2005 for his part in the Serie A match-fixing scandal.
The video appears to show Wright accepting £5,000 cash at a second meeting in return for helping to persuade Barnsley to sign players who are part-owned by the firm.
Wright is then alleged to have helped arrange another meeting at Oakwell with Barnsley chairman Patrick Cryne and head coach Paul Heckingbottom.
Both Cryne and Heckingbottom were unaware of Wright’s previous meetings, nor did they know at the time of Pagliara’s true identity as he had been introduced as a translator.
Cryne clearly expressed at that meeting the proposals to give the club cash to help buy players it could not afford in return for a share of any future transfer fee was in breach of Football Association and FIFA rules on third party ownership of players.
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