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THE Sutton United goalkeeper filmed eating a pie while on the substitutes bench during his side’s 0-2 FA Cup defeat by Arsenal quit the club in tears on Tuesday after admitting a “costly error of judgment”, the club’s manager said.
Wayne Shaw resigned within hours of the Gambling Commission and the FA announcing investigations into his actions after it emerged that a betting company had offered odds against any Sutton player tucking into a pie during the televised game.
Sutton manager Paul Doswell announced Shaw’s fate on live television: “This decision was taken at board level,” he said. “We felt we had to take very strong actions. The chairman spoke to him this afternoon and Wayne offered his resignation.
“I’m devastated, the chairman is devastated. I’ve spoken to Wayne and the guy is in tears, crying down the phone. It is a very sad situation.”
It capped a surreal few hours in the history of the world’s oldest cup competition.
Shaw, 46, who weighs 20 stone, was caught on camera tucking into the pie minutes from the end of Monday’s 5th-round game against Arsenal, with the non-league club trailing 0-2 having used its regulation three substitutes.
Shaw — a former Southampton youth teammate of England icon Alan Shearer — admitted knowing about the wager offered by Sun Bets, the online betting branch of The Sun tabloid whose logo also appeared on Sutton’s shirts.
“I thought I would give them a bit of banter,” he said. “It was meat and potato.”
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