Newell looking to be vindicated

Transfer bungs whistleblower Mike Newell is confident the inquiry into alleged illegal payments in football will expose the agents and officials he believes are swindling supporters.

The Luton manager claimed in January of this year that he had twice been offered a bung, prompting the Premier League to ask former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens to investigate transfer deals in the two years from January 2004.

Lord Stevens is due to reveal his findings on October 2, but tonight the BBC's Panorama programme will broadcast the findings of its own investigation into football corruption.

It is based around filmed conversations between agents and undercover journalists posing as representatives of a fictional agency called Dynamic Soccer.

Newell, who contributed to the programme, is certain that culprits will be unmasked in the near future.

He told BBC Radio Five Live: "I do believe something will be uncovered because there's no way somebody like Lord Stevens would set up an inquiry and spend six, seven months, whatever it's been, and find nothing.

"If he'd found nothing, he would have said so by now. I've absolutely no doubt about that."