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MONAGHAN UNITED chairman Jim McGlone says he is "disgusted" by suggestions his club's 5-1 win over Longford Town on Friday night might have been fixed. At least two major bookmaking firms have claimed they experienced significantly irregular patterns of betting on the game and the FAI has said it will speak to the companies before deciding whether an investigation is required, writes Emmet Malone

McGlone feels the allegations are a slur on the clubs involved. "I've no idea where any of this came from and I wouldn't know much about betting," he says, "but I find it a little bit disgusting anyone might suggest we've been involved in something like this. We've scored three goals here this afternoon," he said after yesterday's drawn game with Kildare County. "And we scored three against Wexford last week, that's 11 goals in three games so there's nothing hugely unusual about the other night, we're playing well at the moment, it's as simple as that."