May 6, 1909
The Commission appointed by the English League to inquire into the League match, Nottingham Forest v. Leicester Fosse, played at Nottingham on April 21, sat at Leicester yesterday afternoon.
It will be remembered that the game ended in a victory for Nottingham Forest by the sensational score of 12 to 0 – a result which practically made the continuance of the Forest in the First League for another season secure. The inquiry lasted for two hours, and at the conclusion an official report was handed to the press.
“After carefully investigating the incidents of the game and the various rumours current in connection therewith, the Commission are unanimously of the opinion that the game was played and conducted in a proper manner, and there was neither corruption, collusion, nor anything to suggest that the game had not been properly fought out.”
It transpired during the inquiry that the bulk of the Fosse players attended a wedding two days before the match, and that the celebrations were kept up the night before the match. In the opinion of the Commission these celebrations at an inopportune time accounted for the indifferent form of a number of the Fosse players, whilst all the witnesses agreed that the Forest players were in remarkably good form.
(Evening Telegraph: May 7, 1909)
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