Is he raising funds to pay off the tens of thousands of pounds he fiddled claiming for disability benefit

Was the disability having skin complexion resembling the surface of the moon?

"Is he raising funds to pay off the tens of thousands of pounds he fiddled claiming for disability benefit"

I think it was about £1800 he had to pay back after an Everton fan who worked for DSS and remembered processing his claim, saw him take a penalty kick at a charity match and reported him. Despite the fact that he had to be dosed up with painkillers for the penalty kick, and has had two new plastic knee joints, a new elbow and a hip replacement - how petty for anyone to report him.

Another Liverpool player(past and present) that has been found guilty and yet they are the victim.

Liverpool fans must live in a different world than the rest of us

Is arry a scouser?

Liverpool fans aren't scousers

Yes i am sure we all think anyone claiming must be sick. he got out onto the pitch no problem!

Once a cheat....always a cheat

What was he a victim of? Please tell.

(I will translate it into Norwegian later so I can fully understand your reply.)

He was a victim of an evil Evertonian who was doing his civic duty by reporting a crime that had been made by Tommy Smith.

Or do you think he was being petty by reporting a fraud

An evil Evertonian - hmmm - why do you say that?

He went back on full benefits by the way.

i would imagine a blue nose will buy them so they can see what medals look like

Why did you mention the club allegiance and why did you refer to the reporting the crime as being 'petty'

reporting of the crime*

I wrote what I remembered happened at the time. As for being petty, I can't stand snitches, maybe you can, that's your perogative.

What is 'the crime' you're talking about anyway?

Paulpowersleftfoot (U1037)


posted 41 minutes ago

Was the disability having skin complexion resembling the surface of the moon?

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very good

love tommy smith but that was brilliant

Fancy people reporting crimes,how low can you go.Perhaps that's why the whole Kop verbally abused Evra,because he reported a crime

What crime did Smith commit though?

Impersonating a QC

TOMMY SMITH, the legendary hard man of Liverpool football, yesterday lost his battle to win back disability benefits axed after he was spotted taking a penalty kick for charity two years ago.
A panel of the Independent Tribunal Service in Manchester ruled that he was entitled only to the lowest rate of support, pounds 13 care allowance, and not pounds 132-a-week disability living allowance.

The former Liverpool defender, who was known as the iron man of Anfield in the Seventies, has suffered from osteo and rheumatoid arthritis for 20 years.

But he was persuaded to take the penalty kick for charity before the 1996 cup final at Wembley where, he claimed, he was reported by a Benefits Agency worker supporting Liverpool's rivals, Everton.

Mr Smith, 53, said he intended to launch a private prosecution against the worker who named him and would appeal against the panel's decision.

"I'm going to fight this all the way. I'm going to take it further. It's disgraceful. Evidently they don't believe what I say."

Mr Smith claimed that the benefits office worker had bragged in the office about his success in getting the disability stopped.

But the footballer said that anyone who knew him knew that he found it very difficult to walk.

Mr Smith, of Blundellsands, Merseyside, has had two new knee joints, a new elbow and a hip replacement since his days as Liverpool captain. He claimed he could only limp out to take part in the charity kickabout after taking painkillers.

Earlier this year, Mr Smith said: "On the day of the shootout, I was drugged up with painkillers. I was helped on the pitch and the ball was put in front of me."

He criticised a Department of Social Security doctor appointed to examine his case, claiming she was with him for only three-quarters of an hour, adding: "Because I go on holiday to America, because I took a penalty at Wembley, and because I do some after-dinner speaking, that makes me able-bodied. I'm not going to lie down and be trodden on. I think it adds insult to injury when I have never been in trouble in my life. People who know me know I'm up-front." It was the principle, not the money, that was motivating him, he said.

The three-man panel, chaired by Peter Ball, decided unanimously that Mr Smith was not entitled to an award of the mobility component of disability- living allowance.

A statement said that he was entitled to the lowest rate of the care component, pounds 13.15 a week, backdated from 13 September 1996.

Mr Smith's wife, Sue, said the decision was "totally disgusting".

"They could have come to stay with us for a week and seen what I did for him but they still probably wouldn't have believed us," she said.

Mr Smith attended the hearing in a head brace and in a wheelchair following a road accident near Skelmersdale last month. He had to be cut free from the wreckage and suffered three fractures to his spine and four broken ribs.


He falsely claimed disability benefits and was forced to repay monies that were overpaid.Basically Fraud

Can't walk.....but took a penalty....and paid the penalty

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/950000/images/_954079_tommy_smith150.jpg

seen less scaffolding on the side of the anglican cathedral

Can you pick up Eurosport on that

I hope he applied for planning permission otherwise he'll be up before the courts again