Football star ‘is charity crook’

A former Premier League footballer will stand trial with his three brothers next July accused of using £26,000 raised from their charity for personal shopping sprees. Sam Sodje, 37, who played in the top flight for Reading during the 2006/07 season, was involved in the Sodje Sports Foundation from 2008, when it was set up to raise money for Nigerian sport. But he, along with his brothers Efe, 34, Stephen, 42, and Bright, 50, are alleged to have used money…