Former Barnsley assistant manager in court on bribery charges

The former assistant manager of Barnsley FC appeared in court today with two agents following a newspaper investigation into corruption in the game. Former Middlesbrough and Leeds winger Tommy Wright, 52, is said to have accepted a £5,000 cash ‘bribe’ in a meeting with undercover journalists in the Daily Telegraph probe in 2016. Wright was assistant manager of Barnsley FC at the time of the investigation and now works for League Two side Carlisle. He faces two counts of accepting…