Support comes in but reality still bites for FA Cup pie man

Support is trickling in for the "roly-poly goalie" who resigned following an FA Cup tie for taking part in a gambling-related stunt.

Media heavyweight Piers Morgan and England football great Gary Lineker have tweeted support for 146kg Wayne Shaw, the pie-eating stopper who came a cropper.

Morgan said reserve goalkeeper Shaw's resignation was politically correctness gone mad, while Lineker lamented that a wholehearted club man had been hung out to dry.

But the Football association and Gambling Commission are not amused, and nor is Sutton United club chairman Bruce Elliott after the loss to Arsenal.

"He has got himself in the papers again and the fame obviously has gone to his head a little bit, but we will soon bring him back down to earth, don't worry about that," Elliott told the Telegraph.

- Full story at NZ Herald