Goalkeeper Wayne Shaw quits team after sideline pie eating causes gambling investigation
The Sutton United goalkeeper who became an Internet hit after eating a pie on the bench during the second half of his club’s 2-0 loss to Arsenal has ended up with, well, pie on his face.
He has resigned from the team in light of Britain’s gambling commission looking into the act after Wayne Shaw admitted he knew people could place bets, at 8-1 odds, against him eating a pie on the bench during the match.
The Guardian was the first to report the investigation.
Shaw made no secret after the match he knew about the odds.
“A few of the lads said to me earlier on: ‘What is going on with the 8-1 about eating a pie?’ I said: ‘I don’t know, I’ve eaten nothing all day, so I might give it a go later on,’” Shaw said. “Sun Bets had us at 8-1 to eat a pie. I thought I would give them a bit of banter and let’s do it. All the subs were on and we were 2-0 down.
“I went and got it at half time from the kitchen, I had it all prepared and ready to go. It was meat and potato,” added Shaw.
The head of the gambling commission said an investigation had started to make sure the gambling house, Sun Bets, had acted with “integrity.”
“Integrity in sport is not a joke and we have opened an investigation to establish exactly what happened,” Richard Watson told The Guardian. “As part of that we’ll be looking into any irregularity in the betting market and establishing whether the operator has met its license requirement to conduct its business with integrity.”
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