UniBond Premier League Marine FC announces that it has received notification from the Football Association that it has decided to charge four players with contravention of the FA’s rules on betting.

Three of the players Paul Woolcott, Adam Farley and Freddie Potter left Marine in the summer of 2009. Lee Parle had suffered a severe injury in October 2008 and had not played for a period of 7 months before the Matlock game being investigated and has only returned to playing football at the start of the current season. This follows an investigation by the FA Compliance Unit into unusual betting patterns on the Matlock Town v Marine league game played on Saturday 4th April 2009 in which Farley and Potter played and the Marine v Witton Albion league game played on Friday 21st March 2008.

Marine Chairman Paul Leary said:
“The officers of Marine Football Club have to date co-operated fully with the staff of the Football Association who have been conducting the investigation with the individuals concerned into the allegations made. I will continue, with the officers of Marine, to co-operate fully with the next stage of their disciplinary process and shall provide any information that will help them to conclude matters as soon as possible.”

Paul Leary added:
“Marine Football Club shall not issue any further statements until the matter is closed”