LONDON - The former Liverpool goalkeeper, Bruce Grobbelaar, and three co-defendants will be retried on charges that they fixed top-level soccer matches, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said yesterday.
The first trial of the four men ended in anti-climax on Tuesday after eight weeks when a jury in Winchester failed to reach a verdict despite two days of deliberations. A spokesman for the prosecution service said no time or venue had yet been decided for the second trial. All four will face the same charges.
Grobbelaar and the former Wimbledon goalkeeper, Hans Segers, were accused of rigging matches on behalf of an Asian betting syndicate. Grobbelaar faced a separate charge of accepting money as an inducement to throw matches.