The 1964 Match–Fixing Scandal

This is a rather unfair question, IMHO. Three Sheffield Wednesday players were sentenced to four months' imprisonment, and banned from football for life, for their parts in the 1964 match–fixing scandal: Tony Kay, Peter Swan and David 'Bronco' Layne. Although Kay was the only one of the three who was a wing half, and the only one who also played for Everton, I think it's a bit much, over 50 years on, to expect people to remember this.

Wikipedia notes that Kay joined Everton soon after the Ipswich match, and was made captain, and Everton went on to win the League title that season. He won his only international cap in 1963, and until the scandal broke he was expecting to be in England's 1966 World Cup squad. This arguably makes him a more high–profile player than either of the other two; but Swan was an England regular at the time of the match that caused the scandal (in December 1962), having won 19 caps between 1960 and 1962.

Better, surely, to ask teams to name one of the three.

In all, 33 players (from various clubs) were prosecuted over the affair. The ringleader, Jimmy Gauld (who had retired from playing in 1961) was sentenced to four years' imprisonment. Swan and Layne appealed successfully against their life bans, as soon as the FA laws allowed; they both returned to Sheffield Wednesday in 1972. Swan played 15 more games for the Owls, before being transferred to Bury; Layne never made it back into the first team, but played his last four games as a professional on loan to Hereford United, who were playing their first season in the Football League.

Tony Kay never returned to professional football after his release from prison.

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