You mean corrupt Carlton will "Buy" another flag!
Come across this article yesterday, funny how a leopard never changes it's spots.
THE BRIBERY SCANDAL, 1910
Long before Hansie Cronje picked up a bat or a mobile phone, and even pre-dating baseball's "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and the "Black Sox", gambling darkened Australian football.
In 1910, three Carlton players were withdrawn from the team to play South Melbourne in the second semi-final under suspicion they had been "got at".
The wonderfully nicknamed Alex "Bongo" Lang admitted taking 10 from a man who approached him in the street and asked him to "run a bye", but was adamant that he would never have given less than 100 per cent.
Lang and teammate Doug Fraser were suspended for five years.
Doug Gillespie, who had been recruited kicking stray balls back over the fence at training, was cleared.
Lang returned in 1916, playing in the Blues' losing grand final team and taking his career tally to 105 games. Fraser never played again.
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