It's Time for Game to Come Clean ; Steve Coppell Sat On the First Bung Inquiry 13 Years Ago and Called for Transparency in Transfer Deals. As Lord Stevens Unveils His Report, Football May Finally Take the Manager's Advice.

Evening Standard - London › December 20, 2006

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ENGLISH football may now be awash with new foreign owners, record- breaking TV deals and world-class players, but some things don't change.

Thirteen years ago, a "cult of dishonesty" in the game was considered so pervasive the Premier League called in outside investigators because the existing rules didn't work.

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It's Time for Game to Come Clean ; Steve Coppell Sat On the First Bung Inquiry 13 Years Ago and Called for Transparency in Transfer Deals. As Lord Stevens Unveils His Report, Football May Finally Take the Manager's Advice.

Today, the Stevens inquiry reports back on an almost identical brief.

For Lord Stevens and his corporate intelligence agency in 2006, read Robert Reid QC and fellow "bung-busters" Rick Parry and Steve Coppell in 1993.

The Premier League's exhaustive commission of inquiry ran for four years and interviewed 42 witness...

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