Longtime Stoke City chairman Peter Coates says he believes professional football is not corrupt - despite the financial scandals that have engulfed the game this past week.
'The game has never been cleaner, and I've been in this game a long time,' Coates told the BBC.
Coates' official capacity with Stoke goes back to 1985, when he took a seat on the club's board.
'The amounts are extraordinary, but strangely lots more went on when there was less money in the game.