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Last Updated: Friday, 22 September 2006, 12:23 GMT 13:23 UK
BBC must give us evidence says FA
The FA is "disappointed" not to have received the BBC's evidence
The Football Association says it is "disappointed" not to have received the BBC's evidence of football corruption.

A Panorama undercover documentary on Tuesday featured allegations of bungs being paid to managers and illegal approaches by clubs to players.

The Football Association has started an investigation, but said: "We have put in another formal request (to the BBC) to supply all the information gathered.

"We are disappointed that we have not had that full co-operation yet."

The Football Association and Premier League will both investigate the claims made by Panorama.

An FA statement on Wednesday said it expected the BBC to provide evidence "as a matter of urgency".

Also on Wednesday, BBC Panorama said in a statement that it will cooperate with requests "from the relevant investigating authorities, in line with our normal processes and procedures in cases of this kind".

And then on Friday, a further BBC statement added: "To reiterate, we'll look to cooperate within the normal processes and procedures in cases of this kind."

The Bolton manager Sam Allardyce was at the centre of the programme, with two agents claiming they paid him bungs.

Allardyce denies ever having taken or asked for a bung and says he has told his lawyers to "take the appropriate action". Bolton say they will carry out a "thorough and robust investigation" into the claims, made by agents Teni Yerima and Peter Harrison.

WHAT IS A BUNG?
A secret and unauthorised payment seen as a financial incentive to help a transfer go through
HOW DOES IT WORK?
An agent pays a club official a slice of his cut for the help of the club official helping the transfer go through
AGENTS' RULES:
An agent may... never so approach a player who is under contract with a club with the aim of persuading him to terminate his contract prematurely or to flout the rights and duties stipulated in the contract

In the programme Harrison also describes offering to pay money to Allardyce's son Craig, who Panorama claims received secret payments from agents during three transfer deals.

Craig Allardyce has since said he was exaggerating his own importance to the undercover reporter in order to attract opportunities.

He denied any wrongdoing in his Bolton deals or in his relationship with the club.

Harrison, filmed making claims about paying managers, now says that was just pub gossip and banter and added that he will sue the BBC.

Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp was filmed talking about Blackburn defender Andy Todd, but denies his conversation amounted to 'tapping up'.

And Redknapp's assistant at Portsmouth at the time of the filming, Kevin Bond, was secretly recorded admitting he would consider discussing receiving payments from a proposed new agency involving Harrison.

Redknapp told the BBC that he has never taken a bung and had given Bond no reason to think otherwise, while Bond says he is not interested in receiving bungs and has also announced plans to sue the BBC.

The documentary also showed Chelsea's director of youth football, Frank Arnesen, and officials from Liverpool, discussing their interest in signing Middlesbrough's youth star Nathan Porritt. Newcastle were also implicated in the programme.

Chelsea and Liverpool both deny breaking Football Association rules. Liverpool say they have taken legal advice.

The FA also wants to contact Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston, after he claimed to have been offered bribes, and leading agent Jon Holmes who said managers had asked him for bungs.

SEE ALSO
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Panorama: Who is accused of what?
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