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Efe Sodje jailed

Post by Somethingfishy » Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:20 pm

Along with his brothers for fraud. Siphoning off cash that they claimed was for charity. Despicable.

Always remember his theatrics in getting Andy Cooke sent off at Macclesfield. Shows the character of the man.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46946503" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Post by Colburn_Claret » Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:22 pm

My memories fuzzy, but weren't the same 3 up to something fishy about 4 or 5 years ago.
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Re: Efe Sodje jailed

Post by Guitargeorge » Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:23 pm

He’s got a job in the prison kitchens, they were short on tea towels
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Post by Bosscat » Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:26 pm

Efe's Cypriot beer good :D
Efe Sodge not good :(

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Post by Funkydrummer » Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:31 pm

Not very bright was he. :lol:

What a set of thieving reprobates. How low can some people stoop ?

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Post by Rowls » Mon Jan 21, 2019 5:33 pm

No surprises.

Man clearly has no moral compass.

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Post by cricketfieldclarets » Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:37 pm

2.5 years for less than 20 grand each?

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Post by tim_noone » Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:46 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:2.5 years for less than 20 grand each?
Or to put it another way... free bed and breakfast and an improvement on jobseekers allowance win win :D
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Post by Bfc » Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:52 pm

I was stood next to Sodje after the game, when Andy Cook had been sent off. He was speaking to someone who he appeared to know well, who asked Sodje, "did he foul you". He smiled and said "he never touched me". Stan Ternent came into the room, so knowing Stan well, I told him of the conversation I'd heard. He told me to wait where I was and he went straight over and asked Sodje if Cook had caught him and of course he said he had. Stan came back and said he couldn't do anything about it. If players were fined by the Club back then, I bet Cookie was let off by Stan. Sodje a cheat on and off the field. He should have got a jail sentence in my mind for feigning the Cook incident. I've hated Macclesfield from that day, nearly as much as them down the road.

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Post by ClaretTony » Mon Jan 21, 2019 8:58 pm

Whichever way you look at it, Cooke was rightly sent off.

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Post by Longsider » Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:08 pm

Remember going to Crewe away ( I think) . He got loads of stick from our fans that day.

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Post by Spike » Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:23 pm

He was always a nasty player! Just a complete fool and a complete fraud

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Post by Vintage Claret » Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:35 pm

Longsider wrote:Remember going to Crewe away ( I think) . He got loads of stick from our fans that day.
I remember that game at Crewe.

All the Burnley fans were singing "he's got a tea towel on his head" at Sodje non stop and he was getting more and more wound up, gesticulating at the fans instead of concentrating on his job and looking like he was going to burst into tears :lol:

Think it's one of those occasions we were definitely the 12th Man :)
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Post by Bosscat » Mon Jan 21, 2019 10:52 pm

Vintage Claret wrote:I remember that game at Crewe.

All the Burnley fans were singing "he's got a tea towel on his head" at Sodje non stop and he was getting more and more wound up, gesticulating at the fans instead of concentrating on his job and looking like he was going to burst into tears :lol:

Think it's one of those occasions we were definitely the 12th Man :)
I'd forgotten that one cheers for bringing a memory back :D
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Re: Efe Sodje jailed

Post by Clarets4me » Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:27 pm

Shocked and appalled that a gentleman from Nigeria should have been convicted of fraud in a British court, I've never heard of such a thing !
Is this a first ?

edit: I've just googled " Nigerian fraud ", apparently, it's a tad more common than I thought ..

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Post by IanMcL » Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:43 pm

Does he do those emails, too? :twisted: :o

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Post by dsr » Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:55 pm

cricketfieldclarets wrote:2.5 years for less than 20 grand each?
Sixty-odd grand is a lot of money in Nigeria. What should the going rate be for stealing the medical care from sick children? Or put another way, how many children died who could have been saved?

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Post by Papabendi » Tue Jan 22, 2019 10:08 am

Not conclusive but what would your take be looking at this with fresh eyes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFKNST4ysqo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Post by NottsClaret » Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:24 am

Papabendi wrote:Not conclusive but what would your take be looking at this with fresh eyes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFKNST4ysqo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
My first take from that video is Glen Little playing in League One looks as ridiculous as it sounds.

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Post by Test User » Tue Jan 22, 2019 11:30 am

Those children would have just wasted the money anyway. At least this way Sodje spent it on people who deserved it. This was just the free market working.

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Post by willsclarets » Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:36 pm

Somethingfishy wrote:Along with his brothers for fraud. Siphoning off cash that they claimed was for charity. Despicable.

Always remember his theatrics in getting Andy Cooke sent off at Macclesfield. Shows the character of the man.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-46946503" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
There'd be a lot more footballers arrested for fraud if there was any connection between theatrics and a broader moral compass.

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Post by Test User » Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:52 pm

willsclarets wrote:There'd be a lot more footballers arrested for fraud if there was any connection between theatrics and a broader moral compass.
TV shows would be boring though.

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Post by South West Claret. » Tue Jan 22, 2019 12:57 pm

It's bad enough hearing that anyone gets up to capers like that but having had a job as a professional footballer one would expect much higher standards.

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Post by claretsmart » Tue Jan 22, 2019 1:00 pm

I still remember a classic line from a Claretsmad match report a good few years back "I think we're the only club who's never had a Sodje". Thank God we never did.
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Post by cricketfieldclarets » Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:58 pm

NottsClaret wrote:My first take from that video is Glen Little playing in League One looks as ridiculous as it sounds.
As ridiculous as us playing macclesfield in the league 8-)

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Post by mdd2 » Sat Jan 26, 2019 7:53 am

I see they were all born in the UK so it looks as if we are stuck with them when they are released although one of the "suspects" is in Dubai and refuses to return for questioning.He won't be back until he has to leave when he has no job and then the British taxpayers will have to look after him

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Post by fatboy47 » Sat Jan 26, 2019 8:17 am

Plenty of people in this country more than adept at diverting cash away from those in need and into the snouts of the greedy and corrupt.

Most folk call them the Tory party. It's de rigueur, don't you know.

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Post by mdd2 » Sat Jan 26, 2019 8:41 am

fatboy47 wrote:Plenty of people in this country more than adept at diverting cash away from those in need and into the snouts of the greedy and corrupt.

Most folk call them the Tory party. It's de rigueur, don't you know.
Labour not far behind, T Dan Smith, John Stonehouse Peter Mandleson, Harold's lavender list the late Tessa Jowells and hubby David Mills to name a few not to mention Cash for honours scandals in the Blair time in Downing street.
It is only the colour of their shirts as they put their snouts in the trough that distinguishes them. It is something that is in politics but probably less so in UK than elsewhere, but you never know.
Wasn't in Lloyd George who was one of the first known dodgy dealers?
And who was it said "I will be buggered if I will join the Liberal Party?"
Can't quite recall but it was someone in the 1970's
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Post by Greenmile » Sat Jan 26, 2019 10:30 am

South West Claret. wrote:It's bad enough hearing that anyone gets up to capers like that but having had a job as a professional footballer one would expect much higher standards.
Why would you expect any higher standards from a professional footballer?

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Post by edlass » Sat Jan 26, 2019 10:40 am

At the time we thought the game shouldn't have even gone ahead as the ball kept stopping in puddles.

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Post by fatboy47 » Sat Jan 26, 2019 1:59 pm

mdd2 wrote:Labour not far behind, T Dan Smith, John Stonehouse Peter Mandleson, Harold's lavender list the late Tessa Jowells and hubby David Mills to name a few not to mention Cash for honours scandals in the Blair time in Downing street.
It is only the colour of their shirts as they put their snouts in the trough that distinguishes them. It is something that is in politics but probably less so in UK than elsewhere, but you never know.
Wasn't in Lloyd George who was one of the first known dodgy dealers?
And who was it said "I will be buggered if I will join the Liberal Party?"
Can't quite recall but it was someone in the 1970's

Tend to agree ...And always more disappointing if its a Labour member...we expect greed and slobbering corruption from the Tories...grabbing is what they preach...they're only doing what it says on their tin.....Blair's lot were just Tories in Labour clothing though to be fair.

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