Gary Sprake: Whistleblower or Traitor? 

That's wrong. Your uncle was one of the Leeds greats.

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He's a liar and a traitor to Leeds. He's bitter Revie dropped him for David Harvey and didn't give him a testimonial.

@@purpledragons1146 Truth hurts

@@coops1964 Leeds were cheated out of several titles during that era. If Revie was a match fixer it would have been the other way around.

It was a rugby and cricket city it had some name managers but they never made there name there ,even with John charles playing they where just a middling club .They had no significant history

Hogwash. Leeds won precisely zero trophies before Revie took over... best was topping the 2nd division in 1924. Middling club is being generous. Revie made LUFC.

@@stephengallagher2209 That's nothing to do with what I said!

Seánbonella refilled with what? Petrol?!

I've seen this myself Sean!

I think that you might be confusing him with someone else.

Yes indeed it does.

what a fucking idiot you are the F,A have always been full of crap and out of touch , just like you are. THATS WHY THEY NEVER APPOINTED BRIAN CLOUGH OR JACK CHARLTON AS MANAGER AND NEVER EXTENDED BOBBY ROBSONS CONTRACT OR TERY VENABLES THE ONLY DECENT MANAGER S WHO HAD THE ENGLAND JOB ALONG WITH DON REVIE . AS FOR DON REVIE THEY WERE GOING TO SACK HIM ANY WAY , NOT BECAUSE HE WAS A BAD MANAGER, WE HAD CRAP PLAYERS LIKE NOW, THE ENGLAND MANAGER IS TOTAL CRAP, WE WILL NEVER WIN FUCK ALL. YOU CAN SHOUT ALL YOU LIKE ,THE PLAYERS ARE JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH , SAME AS IN REVIES TIME, SO HE WENT BEFORE HE WAS SACKED. IF YOU WAS GOING TO GET THE SACK AND YOU WAS OFFERED ANOTHER JOB WITH MORE MONEY WOULD YOU TAKE IT OR NOT, LIKE HELL YOU WOULD YOUR JUST A FUCKING HYPOCRITE AND AN IDIOT TO BOOT

You need hands.

no...only leeds

14 likes and yours has no likes so that must mean most ppl agree that the EFL is corrupt

SUPERB goalie BEST EVER FOR LEEDS & WALES my Birth TOWN SWANSEA City ...RIP Gary ...Revie was top manager but obviously CORRUPT...

Because he's a lying twat. He was desperate for cash.

@Teresa Watts read up on it.. get your facts right then reply Teresa.

Stupid cunts why would the best team in Europe need to bribe players to cheat. All the people calling out the great DR are skint ex players or pathetic leeds haters just stupid makes me laugh MOT

@Teresa Watts is that's what's between your ears

@@cpaddy1 When were Leeds the best team in Europe?

Sprake was bitter and broke. He received £7500 for a bag of lies. O'Grady retracted his statement... Billy received £100k compensation..Where's your criticism now tosser ?

look what clough allegedly done years himself

Clough used to drink the bar dry at derby,every day that's why they fucked him off , they couldn't afford to keep replenishing the bar !!

Brain clough was himself accused of allegedly taking bungs.

Clough was found to be taking bungs during transfer transfer of players.

I'd have wanted my money back.

Especially the Daily Mail.

Where did Ferguson admit he had United players practising diving?

@@alexpaylor1365 www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/2215755/fergie-told-us-to-dive-stam

Dirty scummy leeds

What none of you Leeds United finds have mentioned is that Gary spent the last 30 odd years of his life in Solihull. I had many a drink with him, he was always a gentleman. He never, ever, spoke about Leeds, and we would never question him about his life. He was always quiet, dignified and softly spoken. He liked a drink and to socialise, but he did smoke like a train! I don't have a clue want went on with Leeds back then, but I would trust the word of Gary Sprake all day long! I think we converted him to being a Birmingham fan in the end! RIP Gary Sprake

And a 1973 Cup Winners Cup Final. The ref in that match was found to be guilty of taking bribes. The Greek crowd at the final reacted to perceived bias towards Milan by referee Christos Michas by throwing missiles during the victors' lap of honour, but despite protests, the result was not overturned. UEFA later banned Michas for life due to match fixing, although his role in this match was not investigated.

@@CB-xr1eg thank you for that info which I was aware of being a Leeds fan from 1967...Premiership Leeds are back in top flight other teams are scared...MOT

@@mickbrown8249 Bit previous mate. Still 9 games to play.

@@CB-xr1eg No Worries my END...MOT :) we are the BEST ..

@@mickbrown8249 What a weird reply...

Not only that, when Jimmy Armfield changed Leeds team in 1975 letting them off the leash to ‘play to win rather than Revie’s play ‘not to lose’.

Bunga Bening you need to bribe the good players that’s all. Leeds were good enough to beat the rest. Alan ball frank McClintock all saying something similar says a lot.

Bribing one player could certainly suffice, depending... Revie and Bremner seemed to pick out two or three.

@@stephengallagher2209 In order to find two or three corrupt players on a team how many would you have to approach? Unless you're implying that all players were corrupt in those days, you would presumably have to proposition 5 or 6 players perhaps more. Multiplied by how many teams? You're talking dozens upon dozens of players. And yet how many players have actually made claims?

Those who took the bribes would have been incriminating themselves by talking about it. These were not days that footballers were millionaires so you may be shocked how high a percentage took them. Many others who had the integrity to refuse would not want to incriminate their friends because, as is shown here, you become an outcast.

Was Don Revie investigated. What was the verdict. Why didn't G S not follow up the allegations.

So you've never met a Leeds fan?

+Alba Productions Right, the delusions of tribalism and bigotry.

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Alba Productions George Graham got found out about bungs and arsenal sacked him immediately...so hardly the British dismissing it is it?? It’s just some clubs have standards higher than others. George Graham is/was probably more of a legend to arsenal fans than revie is to Leeds fans but that didn’t stop arsenal doing the right thing Leeds and their board know what happened and made an outcast of the player who is fighting for truth and justice

Two brilliant comments. Typical Gooner comment. George Hraham more of a legend to to Arsenil than Revie to Leeds! See what I mean...typical moron. I’m a Luton fan...I love Leeds fans...proper fans. Like Pompey, Birmingham, Millwall, West Ham...the same clubs that had proper firms before the Hooligan haters got their way and made health and safety the be all and end all. Arsenil fans celebrate a goal by eating their picnic. ManUtd fans eat a prawn sandwich. Wankers.

dont send them here ffs

teams playing for a draw isn't anything new though. In aggregate series's, if the first game ends with a win, that side almost ALWAYS plays for a draw the next game because they don't need to bust a gut to win to take the series.

@@GetBenched2010 Well in the City game I was talking about City needed to win a draw wasn't good enough and while I get your overall point if you don't need a win why play for one? keep it safe, but we aren't really talking about that, we are talking about teams doing things that harm them if the result remains as it is.

it's a myth to say Sprake made mistakes in big games...he was outstanding in the 65 FA cup final and also the 1968 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final against Ferencvaros...he made an error in the 70 final but just look at the pitch...it was a disgrace, a potato field, cased by the Horse of the Year Show...

hugodrax71 Yeah, Leeds' first goal would probably have been cleared off the line if it hadn't got caught in the mud.

scooperman Derby won the League that season.

Then retracted it all.... Sprake received £7500 for a bag of lies....

My uncle Danny Hegan was in the Wolves team then and told The Sunday People the whole story .

@@stevehegan3609 another bag of lies...

@@servicecrew6813 Exactly. Sprake recieved £7500 from the press but he refused to say his bag of lies in court under oath

We didn't need to offer teams money to throw matches back then mate... They used to try bribe us to keep the score down

+Just Leeds - steakandsid Well said mate.

+Just Leeds - steakandsid Evidence of that, please.

@@steakandsidJustLeeds leeds are...and always will be ....shite scumbags

Bang on pal. This video would have you believe that only Leeds were at it. I'm sure they weren't the only one's. All part of the 'dirty Leeds' tag from the 70's that still sticks today..

Thanks Kevin, I was only being objective!.

David Cummings I agree with you , David. Gary Srake has a lot more guts than some of his former team mates. Good for him to be prepared to stand up and be counted.

Too Right, michael hampton!

David Cummings I'm sure a lot of Gary Sprake's teammates and most Leeds United fans will always live in denial about the bribery allegations although the evidence from people within the game is overwhelming.

dont forget when sugar blew the whistle on bungs it was him and spurs they tried to punish not the guilty parties, as for revie as england mngr hed got a job which mainly due to ramseys approach was seen as an high office part of the establishment it was far far more important than the joke it is today,bit like reith at the bbc, so i doubt the powers that be wanted the posistion further stained by a conviction as they had banned revie from football they thought that was enough to hush it up and it worked few of us remember it. good posts david and co

Don Revie wasn't the only one adept at offering bungs, Bob Stokoe at Sunderland was rumoured to be at it too

eddyvideostar - and your comment makes absolutely no sense whatsoever !! Lol. Thanx anyway tho ! Had a good gas reading it ! Cheers.

And you have proof of your accusation?

@@alistairmarshall169 its in most of his bios

@@mikekemp9877 Ok maybe I need to read then to educate myself

@@alistairmarshall169 the best one is by a local sports reporter for a nottingham paper who was very close with clough.he does mention how different football was back then especially in terms of bungs backhanders and skimming.he tells of brown paper shopping bags full of gate receipts under cloughs desk after a cup tie .revies team was i think no different from many first division clubs in those days it seemed pretty endemic in football.gary sprakes revelations and the manner of revie leaving england always raise a doubt about him.clough though at the end of his career was named in a court case for accepting a bung to sell a player and the george graham fiasco at tottenham show how institutionalised it all was between the managers.indeed thousands went missing at spurs under venables including buying players allegedly from norway who never actually left home for hundreds of thousands.in fact one guy was about 50 the club barman and had only one leg as the panorama special showed.sugar tried to get accounts etc sorted only to be told thats not how football works.when he blew the gaffe the only team penalised was spurs!sadly i think revie was a great great manager but just did things the way most of them did in those days.

@@CB-xr1eg classy

Thanks mate.

Revie didn’t think that Sprake’s story was unusable, because just knowing that Sprake was going public was enough for Revie to give up the England job and leave the country. At the end of the day ,Sprake was a hero and Revie was an unethical cheating coward.

@@Arthur_Pint Revie never sued Sprake or the newspaper. To me, that says everything.

I'm a Leeds fan and I hate the way Gary was treated. I think Don Review was a great manager, but was a flawed man in flawed times. Gary told the truth and it's a shame how it all turned out. I wonder if privately some of his ex team mates regret the way they treated him. I really hope so because they should.

Now but not then.

I think i would have got a hard on somebody rubbing me down ;)

@@robchatc not it if it was Don Revie

robchatc yes if it was the former Chelsea physio

Yes when I saw that years ago on telly it made me wince. Very strange!

The system isn't going set things up nice and simple to make it easy to work out.

European teams didn't need holiday money.

Because not all players were as corrupt as Leeds.

Because when the other teams players took their foot off the gas Leeds still couldn`t beat them.

Because it's probably not as easy to fix a match as you think.

They were a dirty bunch of fuckers. But I think all teams left a brown envelopes or little presents for refs of the opposition. I think it is still going on but in a different way.

That is because Clough played for the Boro whereas Revie didn't so no statue for him

Celtic won the European Cup 3 years before, a competition Leeds have never won. Celtic played more games than Leeds that season too.

45 years ago....let it go pal...getting outclassed by the mighty Celtic is no embarrassment.

@@donegal79 just like everyone on here im making a point and i dont even support Leeds so ive no need to "let it go" pal

john e Lawler - Revie is a mercenary traitor who sold players for money 💰 hush money !!

@@RikiNewtonMusicianSongwriter very easy to malign the dead who can't defend themselves all yo are going on is trial by television & if it was true why wasn't Alan Ball & other accusers banned for life?

Sameoldfitup Absolutely, because of him Leeds didn’t win more trophies

George connelly leeds v celtic 1970.first minute.we never got back from that mistake.

By all accounts including his own, Eddie never had a problem with Sprake, even after the newspaper reports came out. That said, it's hard to find anyone Gray has any serious hate for. He's always been a very diplomatic guy.

I suggest you watch it again- that's not what he said.

Aye, then you met the mighty Feyenoord.

still not right though. heard Cloughie speaking a few years ago and he asked about taking bungs for players transfers... came straight out and said yes it took one for a certain player, half to charity and other half to my missus to go shopping....no denial, but i would bet my life he never tried to fix a game

These are all allegations, nothing more. He Coul not prove any of it. You as a Clough supporter should know that it was Clough who received backhand money for his transfer dealings and it is documented and towards later years of his life resorted to alcohol and died as a result.

Knew your a prawn sandwich fan. What's it like holding up the premiership. Cough himself was accused of taking bungs. Back in the day

Chelsea made a blunder at the other end to let Jack Charlton score a lucky goal. The truth is, Chelsea were just too determined and wouldn't let Leeds get the better of them.

Ironically Cloughs time as Leeds manager probably should have been after Armfield once virtually all the Revies team had gone.

Maybe. but a cheater is still a cheater, no matter how much you dress it up. The truth will out, one way or one day

Harry Redknapp's dog can vouch for that!

They could have been white

Leeds finished 5 points behind both United and City (2 points for a win) when the manchester clubs won the league in 67 and 68 so it would have needed more than one penalty for Leeds to have won the league in those seasons. Leeds lost the league on goal difference in their first season back in division one in 64/5 to MUFC but its more than unlikely Revie would have been established enough as a top manager to have tried it so early in his reign. The ironic thing for Leeds were the two bent european finals they lost.

@@dlamiss where was the six grand coming from is well🤣🤣🤣🤣

Harvey was probably more consistent but Sprake in the main was truly World class!

maybe, as one of Revie's pupils, he was upset he became Leeds' no.2 keeper before Revie sold him to Birmingham

hugodrax71 nail on head.. made him bitter

+Paul James Thinking of honesty and fairness and the truth?

big bad one Ferguson bought more refs than good players. Everyone knows he was shagging Howard Webb.

Just up from Elland road

bang on sure revie was no shrinking violet clean jean like clough etc but still you have to seriously suspect a lot of these allegations. Don was like the devil or adolph hitler from 1977/78. you could say anything bad against him and get believed🤣🤣🤣🤣 and sprates very suspect like cost leeds some big games with suspect. he could well have been there bruce grobbelaar ha