Banned for betting on own team's game

Accrington Stanley defender Peter Cavanagh has been fined £3,500 and suspended from football for eight months for betting on a match involving his team, the English FA said yesterday. Cavanagh was charged with betting on Accrington's final League Two...

Accrington Stanley defender Peter Cavanagh has been fined £3,500 and suspended from football for eight months for betting on a match involving his team, the English FA said yesterday.

Cavanagh was charged with betting on Accrington's final League Two match of the 2007/08 season.

"These were repeated deliberate breaches of the FA's betting rules which are vital to maintain confidence in the integrity of the game," the FA's Regulatory Commission said in a statement.

Last month four other players, three who played for Accrington and one who played for Bury at the time of the match, were fined and banned between five months and a year for betting on the same game, which Bury won 2-0.

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