‘Thanks for your help – here’s 5k’

An undercover journalist handed Barnsley FC’s former assistant manager an envelope containing £5,000 bung and told him ‘thanks for your help’, a court heard. Tommy Wright, 53, allegedly accepted the bribe from the reporter during the Daily Telegraph’s ‘football for sale’ probe in 2016. The newspaper investigation led to Sam Allardyce, resigning from his position as the then manager of the England squad, Southwark Crown Court has heard. Former Leicester City and Leeds Utd winger Wright was assistant head coach…