Banned because he had the temerity to tell his nearest and dearest that he was leaving the country to move to Spain to continue his career... and bookies allowed people to place bets on an occurence that was down to something other than what happens on the field...
Same with what happened to Wayne Shaw (The Roley-Poley goalie) when The Scum newspaper decided to take bets that he would eat a pie at half time... and he did (actually it was a pasty or a sausage roll)... but because they offered the bet, people took it... and because he went through with it, he was influencing the outcome of the betting, the bookies had to pay out... and it was him that lost his job...
Corrupt as ****