Sutton's roly-poly goalkeeper Wayne Shaw might have thought the meat pie he ate while on the bench during the FA Cup was 'bloody unreal' at the time, probably not so much now.
The 46-year-old cult hero resigned from the club on Wednesday as the FA and the UK Gambling Commission launched investigations, after he revealed he knew bookmaker Sun Bets offered odds of 8-1 on him to eat a pie.
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#piegate: Roly-poly goalie loses job
Sutton's reserve goalkeeper Wayne Shaw resigns after a pie-eating stunt mid-game, which made a few people very rich.
The agency paid out a five-figure sum on the prop bet - Shaw said he had spoken to people about the bet on Monday.
"A few of the lads said to me earlier on what is going on with the 8-1 about eating a pie," Shaw said post-game.
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"I said 'I don't know I have eaten nothing all day so I might give it a go later on'."
Shaw, who weighs 127kg, was caught on camera tucking into the pie minutes from the end of Tuesday morning's game with his team trailing 2-0.
Sutton manager Paul Doswell announced Shaw's fate on live television:
"This decision was taken at board level," Doswell said.
"We felt we had to take very strong actions. The chairman spoke to him this afternoon and Wayne offered his resignation.
"I'm devastated, the chairman is devastated. I have spoken to Wayne and the guy is in tears, crying down the phone. It is a very sad situation."
"A situation that had been such good fun in virtually every aspect until what happened last night.
"He's done a fantastic job for the football club, but unfortunately if any of us put ourselves into Wayne's position last night then you make your position pretty much untenable."
So Wayne Shaw, who slept on a sofa 3 nights a week at Sutton to maintain and run the place loses his job over #piegate. FFS!
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) February 21, 2017
On Tuesday morning the Gambling Commission, the regulatory body that oversees British gambling, announced its inquiry as did the FA.
"Integrity in sport is not a joke and we have opened an investigation to establish exactly what happened," Richard Watson, the commission's enforcement and intelligence director, said.
"As part of that we'll be looking into any irregularity in the betting market and establishing whether the operator has met its licence requirement to conduct its business with integrity."
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