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Bungs in football - Newell tells Panorama: "Those are the people who tried to pay me money"
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Mike Newell - the football manager who first raised concerns about transfer bungs (illegal payments) in football - has revealed the identity of the agents who tried to offer him a bung to Panorama's Undercover: Football's Dirty Secrets, to be screened on 大象传媒 ONE tomorrow at 9.00pm.
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Newell, the Luton Town manager, identifies Charles Collymore and his unlicensed assistant Mark Wilson.
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While watching undercover footage of the programme, Newell realises that he recognises the two agents who offered him a bung, and says: "Those are the people who tried to pay me money."
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Newell says he has already reported both these agents to the Football Association.
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Charles Collymore is secretly filmed telling the programme: "There's managers out there who take bungs all day long. xxxxx, you know that, takes bungs all day long. We've got xxxx FC, yep all day long."
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Collymore adds: "I would say to you comfortably there's six to eight managers we could definitely approach and they'd be up for this, no problem."
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The revelations come on the eve of the Premier League's probe into alleged transfer bungs.
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Newell tells the 大象传媒 in an on-camera interview: "It's great for me to see, to see what I've just seen on the film. It does vindicate me and it does, it does vilify them."
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And speaking about bungs he says: "I think it's become a culture in football and it's almost accepted and brushed under the carpet."
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Tonight's Newsnight (大象传媒 TWO) will also take up the story involving Belgian first division Club Charleroi, first uncovered during Panorama's investigation: the owners said they were willing to secretly sell the club to football agents for five million Euros.
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Further details on Undercover: Football's Dirty Secrets - a Panorama investigation - will be released tomorrow.
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