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	Bruce Grobbelaar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bruce Grobbelaar (born October 6, 1957 in Durban, South Africa) was a football goalkeeper for Zimbabwe and a number of clubs, most notably Liverpool F.C. Contents
		Grobbelaar signed for Liverpool in early 1981 as their reserve goalkeeper, but in the summer of 1981, regular goalkeeper Ray Clemence's departure to Tottenham Hotspur gave Grobbelaar his opportunity.
		Grobbelaar pleaded not guilty, claiming he was only gathering evidence with the intent of taking it to the police.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bruce_Grobbelaar (1288 words)

	Guardian \| The big gamble that so nearly paid off
		When Bruce Grobbelaar strolled into a Southampton hotel room, warmly embraced his friend Chris Vincent and slouched in an armchair with a cigarette in his hand, the talk was of bedding women, their days in the Zimbabwean army and throwing football matches.
		Grobbelaar's victories in the libel trial and the two criminal trials were as audacious as any of his performances in a Liverpool shirt.
		Grobbelaar has alleged throughout the past six years that he always intended to return the £2,000 he was caught on camera accepting and that he intended to report match fixing to the authorities.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4119755-103690,00.html (1572 words)

	Grobbelaar told tangled tale of lies, says QC
		Grobbelaar, who is suing the Sun newspaper for substantial damages for stories claiming that he took bribes to "throw" matches, suffered a long day in the witness box as a jury heard of his marital indiscretions and attempts to pick up a woman in a Southampton bar.
		Grobbelaar's wife, Debbie, sat in court and listened as her husband told Vincent he was "in trouble with my missus" after she had become suspicious that he was having an affair.
		Grobbelaar, who was cleared of criminal charges of corruption after two trials in 1997, has always maintained that he intended to report Mr Vincent to the police and footballing authorities after he had discovered his accomplices.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/07/14/ngro14.html (961 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| News \| Game over
		Grobbelaar's name came up a few days ago, when Liverpool were drawn to meet Roma in the next round of this year's Uefa Cup.
		Grobbelaar was at his best on such occasions, his earlier service as a scout in the Rhodesian army, tracking the movements and dodging the bullets of Robert Mugabe's guerrilla fighters, being popularly supposed to have enabled him put mere penalty kicks with plastic-coated footballs into proper perspective.
		Grobbelaar himself was born in Durban in 1957.
	football.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/0,1563,424714,00.html (1375 words)

	++ / LFChistory.net -- Past Present Future
		Bruce's clownish behaviour should not though fool anyone, because when he made an error he was furious with himself afterwards, striving for perfection.
		Bruce confounded his critics who claimed he was too error prone and kept his place in goal from his Liverpool debut on the 29th of August 1981 to 16th of August 1986, without missing a single game, playing 310 consecutive games.
		Grobbelaar missed several games in 1988/89 due to a bout of meningitis, but his place in the side wasn't seriously threatened until the arrival of England's u-21 goalkeeper David James.
	www.lfchistory.net /player_profile.asp?player_id=308 (229 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - FIFA cannot touch me says Grobbelaar
		Bruce Grobbelaar does not fear a possible lengthy ban by world soccer's governing body FIFA over match-fixing allegations.
		Grobbelaar, now coach of South African premier league club SuperSport United, said: "I was acquitted in a court of law and I cannot be charged again.
		After being cleared of match-fixing charges, Grobbelaar was found guilty of misconduct by the FA in September 1997 for breaking betting rules.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2001/0122/liverpool22.html (292 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet England: News - Grobbelaar loses fight to clear his name
		Grobbelaar's libel suit stemmed from a piece in The Sun which alleged that he took £40,000 to make sure Liverpool lost 3-0 at Newcastle in November 1993.
		He said the goalkeeper may have been careful to select games which he thought his team would lose anyway, that he was intending to return the bribes if the games were not lost or that his instinct for saving goals and his will to win overcame his interest in losing.
		Grobbelaar, who lives with his wife and two young daughters at Tisman's Common, Rudgwick, West Sussex, had sued the newspaper and its former editor, Stuart Higgins, for substantial compensation.
	www.soccernet.com /england/news/2001/0118/20010118lfcgrobbelaar.html (754 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| News \| One hell of a ride
		Bruce Grobbelaar was the clown prince of English football, but after the glory years with Liverpool came match-fixing allegations, an eight-year tussle with the Sun newspaper and bankruptcy.
		In a blaze of statistics and anecdotes, Grobbelaar begs to differ, casting himself as a savvy saviour of underperforming teams who is nevertheless cast aside by managers too dumb or stingy to keep him.
		Grobbelaar went to the House of Lords, which reinstated the jury verdict but slashed his damages to £1 and ordered him to pay the Sun's huge legal costs.
	football.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,9753,1380496,00.html (1204 words)

	WALK ON - Official Site of the Liverpool Supporters Club (Malta)
		Bruce arrived at Anfield in march 1981 as a $250,000 signing from Vancouver Whitecaps, and had little time to settle before being pitchforked into regular first-team action.
		When Bruce was confronted with a penalty shoot-out at the end of the 1984 European Cup Final against Roma, he eased the tension with his famous leg-wobbling act – and, crucially, had the last laugh by finishing on the winning side.
		Given a free transfer that summer, Bruce joined Southampton and continued to hold his own in the top flight, even, for a time, after he was accused of accepting a bribe to fix Liverpool’s game at Newcastle the previous term, a damning allegation which he denied strenuously.
	www.walkonlfc.com /goldies/bruce_grobbelaar.htm (785 words)

	CNNSI.com - Soccer - 'Astonished' Grobbelaar loses libel appeal - Thursday January 18, 2001 11:30 AM
		Grobbelaar said he was "absolutely devastated" by the ruling and his legal team intended to petition for leave to appeal to the House of Lords, Britain's highest court.
		Grobbelaar was refused leave to appeal to the House of Lords by the Appeal Court judges, but his lawyers can still make an application direct to the Law Lords.
		Grobbelaar, 43, along with ex-Wimbledon stars Hans Segers and John Fashanu and businessman Richard Lim, was cleared of criminal conspiracy charges in a 1997 re-trial after an earlier trial ended in deadlock.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /soccer/news/2001/01/18/grobbelaar_libel (655 words)

	Zamnet Communication Systems Limited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		FORMER Zimbabwe and Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar is disappointed with Zambia's failure to qualify for the 2004 Tunisia African Nations Cup finals.
		Grobbelaar, who played for Liverpool of England for 13 years, said it was particularly sad that the "Chipolopolo Boys" lost 0-3 to rank-outsiders, Benin, on the last day of qualifiers last month.
		While Grobbelaar may be toasted as one of Africa' best goalkeepers ever, Zambians remember him for conceding a Kalusha Bwalya deft header in the 1993 Africans Nations Cup final qualifier at Rufaro Stadium in Harare, Zimbabwe.
	www.zamnet.zm /newsys/news/viewnews.cgi?category=11&id=1060912143 (371 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| 'Reverse Grobbelaar damages' plea
		"Sadly the badges of dishonesty and corruption belong on Bruce Grobbelaar because he is condemned by his own mouth and in his own words in the admissions he made on the tapes," he told the court.
		The libel action was the third time that Grobbelaar had declared his innocence of match-fixing to a jury after The Sun published a series of damning articles about him in November 1994.
		Grobbelaar's response to inducements to fix matches made on the tapes showed he was corrupt and that he had acted corruptly in the past, said Mr Spearman.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1053467.stm (485 words)

	Grobbelaar hails 'spaghetti legs' Dudek
		Former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar congratulated Jerzy Dudek on Thursday after the Pole's 'spaghetti legs' performance earned Liverpool a penalty shootout victory over AC Milan in the Champions League final.
		Grobbelaar played 627 games for the club in 13 years, claiming six league titles and the European Cup in 1984, the last time the Reds had won the trophy before Wednesday night.
		Grobbelaar watched Wednesday's game with friends at a golf club and he was staggered by Liverpool's comeback from 3-0 down to draw 3-3 after extra time.
	inhome.rediff.com /sports/2005/may/26uefa7.htm (342 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Grobbelaar loses damages appeal
		Former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar suffered a devastating blow today when his five-year battle to clear his name of match-fixing allegations was destroyed by a Court of Appeal ruling.
		The High Court libel action was the third time that Grobbelaar had declared his innocence of match-fixing to a jury after The Sun published a series of damning articles about him in November 1994.
		It was also ordered at the High Court that Grobbelaar, who said he was the victim of a classic scam, should have his estimated £400,000 legal costs met by the newspaper, which also had to foot its own £500,000 bill.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2001/0118/grobbelaarb.html (392 words)

	Grobbelaar wins £85,000 in libel verdict
		BRUCE GROBBELAAR won his five-year struggle to clear his name yesterday after a High Court libel jury cleared him of the match-fixing allegations that have cast a shadow over his reputation.
		Grobbelaar, who denied the allegations from the outset, has always claimed that his admissions to Mr Vincent were "pure invention" aimed at luring information out of him so that he could later report his corrupt former friend to the police.
		Grobbelaar's case was also supported by expert testimony from the former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson, who reviewed the five matches at which the Sun claimed Grobbelaar had taken money to influence the result.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/07/29/ngrob29.html (696 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today's news Grobelaar to coach Bush Bucks
		Grobbelaar's appointment finally put to rest speculations which have been doing the rounds since the position was vacated by Clemens Westerhof after his redeployment to the development team last month.
		Grobbelaar, whose 1957 date of birth coincides with the formation of Bucks, saved Hellenic from relegation at the expense of Bucks two seasons ago.
		Grobbelaar appeared to have done his research about Bucks, as he revealed that his immediate task was to fortify the defence.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/389862.htm (309 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today's news Grobbelaar quits Bucks
		Pasiya said that the loss was due to a blunder by technical staff when they substituted a player five minutes before the break when they could have waited for the interval to correct his mistakes.
		On Wednesday Grobbelaar refused to be drawn to say why he opted out, saying his resignation was amicable.
		Grobbelaar was optimistic that he would have saved the club from relegation from the nine games left.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/423170.htm (535 words)

	The Examiner - World News - 29, July, 1999
		Grobbelaar’s lawyers have described the Sun’s allegations as a classic scam, saying he had been wronged when he tried to expose corruption.
		The case comes two years after Grobbelaar and fellow premier league players John Fashanu and Hans Segers were found not guilty on criminal charges of conspiring to help fix matches for Asian betting syndicates.
		Grobbelaar added that he had not brought the case for the money.
	archives.tcm.ie /irishexaminer/1999/07/29/fhead_9.htm (551 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Grobbelaar 'victim of Sun scam'
		Mr Grobbelaar, the 41-year-old former Zimbabwean international, is suing the newspaper and its former editor Stuart Higgins for libel over a series of articles in November 1994.
		Mr Hartley told the court that Mr Grobbelaar had been trapped while trying to expose the corruption of a former business partner, Chris Vincent, to the FA and the police.
		Mr Grobbelaar was "totally amazed" when Mr Vincent asked him if he was interested in "throwing matches" at a meeting in September 1994 and made it clear it was out of the question.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/390119.stm (424 words)

	BRUCE IS BACK IN BUSINESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Grobbelaar, who turned 47 last month, comes in for the former Nigeria World Cup coach Clemens Westerhof, who has been moved to take charge of the club’s youth academy.
		Grobbelaar was fired in August after winning just one of his first five marches in charge of Manning Rangers.
		His appointment at Bucks on a contract until the end of the season means Grobbelaar has now taken charge of five South African clubs since beginning his coaching career in the country in 1999.
	www.cosafa.com /_STORIES/STORY_200.html (181 words)

	CNN.com - Soccer star stripped of libel award - January 18, 2001
		The appeal judges upheld a challenge by The Sun newspaper to a jury verdict that Grobbelaar had been libelled when it accused him of making sure matches were lost in return for cash payments.
		It was also ordered at the High Court that Grobbelaar, who said he was the victim of a "classic scam", should have his estimated £400,000 ($590,000) legal costs met by the newspaper, which also had to foot its own £500,000 ($740,000) bill.
		Grobbelaar's solicitor David Hewitt confirmed he would be petitioning the House of Lords for leave to appeal.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/UK/01/18/libel (670 words)

	CriminalSports
		Bruce Grobbelaar won a libel case Thursday in England's appeals highest court over charges of taking money to fix soccer games.
		Grobbelaar won his case against Britain's tabloid Sun newspaper five years ago, but an appeals court overturned the ruling.
		The judges ruled that although Grobbelaar had accepted bribes, the newspaper had failed show he had intentionally allowed goals to be scored against him.
	radio.weblogs.com /0110004/2002/10/24.html (1041 words)

	SI.com - Soccer - Africa: Grobbelaar returns to game as coach in S. Africa - Wednesday July 28, 2004 5:39PM
		Bruce Grobbelaar will have to keep his antics confined to the sidelines as coach of South Africa's Manning Rangers.
		Grobbelaar, who will be forever dogged by match-fixing allegations from his playing days in England, has also earned a reputation for being put into struggling clubs and helping them avoid relegation.
		Recently, Grobbelaar was also linked with coaching job of Zimbabwe's national team, a role he has filled on a caretaker basis on three occasions.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/soccer/07/28/grobbelaar (1257 words)

	ESPNsoccernet - England - Grobbelaar hails 'starfish with jelly legs' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Grobbelaar inspired Liverpool to European Cup glory against Roma 21 years ago after a penalty shoot-out, and in Istanbul Dudek did the same against AC Milan.
		Grobbelaar told BBC Radio Five Live: 'Apparently he was told to do what Bruce Grobbelaar did in 1984 and the boy did it.
		Grobbelaar insisted, though, that the victory differed from the European Cup triumph he played in in 1984.
	soccernet.espn.go.com /headlinenews?id=334339&cc=5739 (868 words)

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