Eddie McGuire opens up about rumours of a 'gambling ring' involving AFL players
A furious Eddie McGuire has slammed rumours of a gambling ring involving Collingwood Magpies AFL players as being '100 per cent not true' - after a text message started circulating claiming members of the team were betting on games.
McGuire, the Collingwood president, said the rumours were false and the AFL, the club and the Victoria Police were investigating where they had come from.
The rumours emerged after a fake text message began circling through Australia claiming members of the team were part of a betting syndicate.
'Yeah so some of the boys have a betting syndicate and one ... dumped a bet on us to lose to Hawthorn, then it just snowballed from there. We are f----- mate lol,' the fake text reads.
Eddie McGuire has slammed rumours of a gambling ring involving Collingwood Magpies AFL players as being '100 per cent not true'
'The AFL Integrity Department, this is a very serious department of the AFL, with the backing of Victoria Police, are investigating this. Because one, there's defamatory comments in this, forget about the harassment part of it and all the rest of it,' he said on Triple M on Friday.
'But the integrity of the game is paramount to everybody. No one's taking a happy go lucky view of this... It's 100 per cent no true.'
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