The former Huddersfield Town player was one of the six people arrested as part of a football spot-fixing probe
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According to the paper, Sodje, who once played in the Premier League for Reading and has won four caps for Nigeria, allegedly also boasted he had arranged for a fellow professional in the Championship, the second tier of the English game, to get a yellow card in return for tens of thousands of pounds, and that he could even rig top-flight fixtures
It comes after a Sunday newspaper alleged that the 33-year-old striker said he would be prepared to be paid to be booked during matches
The striker made his return from injury at Oldham and started in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy defeat against Fleetwood last week