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.

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& I suppose the doctor who gave him the medical around which the decision not to pay him the higher rate of disability allowance, was based on - was also a Blue?

The crater faced, bitter old bellwhiff was banged to rights, hence the result of his appeal, heard by a panel & based on the recommendations of a doctor.

Victim FC strikes again.

If this is a wind-up about a persons disability then it is sick. If it is true that a Social Worker has reported a transgression because of inter-club rivalry then that is utterly disgraceful and out Club should issue a statement disowning the person in question.

Nothing like sensationlising a story eh - 'tens of thousands of pounds of benefits' was mentioned by one of you. I just put him right on the amount and the bits of the story I could remember.

Snitches eh.... got to love 'em.

Let us not forget the fact that Tommy Smith was making claims that he was not entitled to.Lets not forget the fact he appeared in a charity match screened on live TV taking a penalty before the cup final game.
Lets not forget the fact that the person who 'shopped' him also was working for the dept that was conned by Tommy Smith.
Let's not forget the fact that Tommy Smith had a 45 minute check up by a doctor who found he was only entitled for the lesser mobility allowance.
Let's not forget the fact that Tommy Smith's appeal for reinstatement of the full mobility allowance was rejected.

He got caught banged to rights,he probably gets more in benefits and for writing for the echo and after dinner speeches etc than most honest upright tax payers earn in a year .

Tommy smith wasn't guilty Dalglish said so and he never should have been done in the first place.

and they had the audacity to call me a grass the other day

they make me sick - the bitter, bitter fools

Tommy Smith is not the sharpest tool in the box.Taking a penalty on live TV in front of millions whilst falsely claiming for disability benefit.

What an utter tool

Should we sue people who compete in the special olympics ?

you blues are so bitter it's untrue

They don't have gurning as an event in the special Olympics,So Tommy could never compete in them.

I'm sure those that compete in the special olympics have medicals to assess their condition,just like Tommy did after he got found out.

and they had the audacity to call me a grass the other day

they make me sick - the bitter, bitter fools

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What, so you condone benefit cheats as long as they're kopites?

Bellwhiff

comment by Metro- (U6770)

posted 45 minutes ago
Should we sue people who compete in the special olympics ?

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Bet those athletes.never made a false claim like tommy did

temper temper

Is that all you got Metro.........you have nothing more to say because for know you are defeated. Tommy Smith did wrong and there's no way you can defend the benefit fiddling crater faced tool

*you know you are defeated*

Its a victory for you ISRBCB

Metro is the one who claims and craves victory.I just want to see how he can claim a victory from this.

Smith had his benefits re-instated following a further medical examination!

Your bitterness knows no bounds. What happened to human decency.

That would be after his car crash where he suffered some spinal injuries.I agree he would probably qualify for the higher benefits.

Doesn't hide from the fact that when he first claimed the full disability benefits that he was claiming for benefits he wasn't entitled to.

Check you facts johnsonsbaby (U10461).

Check your facts

Where did you come up with tens of thousands of pounds?

Where did you get the fact that it was an Evertonian who shopped him?

In his later years, Smith had a hip replacement operation (both knees and an elbow are made of plastic as well) and also began to suffer from arthritis to the extent that he couldn't work and often needed a wheelchair or walking stick and had to claim incapacity benefit. He then had to go to a social security tribunal to explain himself after he managed to take a penalty on the Wembley pitch in a light-hearted contest for charity which featured former footballers which took place at half-time during the FA Cup final in 1996. The informer was an employee for the DSS. Smith, perhaps only half-seriously, claimed in his newspaper column that the informer must have been an Everton supporter and had only reported him because of his probable anti-Liverpool bias. Staff at the same DSS branch at which the individual worked denied that he was an Everton supporter and claimed that he had no interest whatsoever in football, being a rugby league fan. Nonetheless, the myth of Smith being shopped by an Evertonian still persists. In any case, Smith's allowance was stopped for a while, but he is now back on the top level of disability benefit.[5] He now supplements his income on the after-dinner circuit and by writing a column for a local newspaper. In March 2008 he published his autobiography, Anfield Iron.

Guess that puts that little victimisation story to rest then.

He certainly follows the Liverpool FC tradition

In 1988 Smith caused considerable controversy after making derogatory comments about black people to author Dave Hill while being interviewed in the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool for a book Hill was writing about black Liverpool F.C player John Barnes. Smith was uncomplimentary about Howard Gayle, a black former Liverpool player with whom Smith had been at the club in the 1970s while the striker was a youth team player, saying that: "Howard suffered from a black man's attitude towards the white man. See, everybody thinks whites have an attitude towards blacks. In reality it's blacks who have a problem with the whites". Smith later added that in order to gain his respect and friendship, "coloured" people have to learn to "think like the white man" and that he later grew to like Gayle, remarking that "I used to call Howard the 'White N****r'. Now that is a compliment. It was the only way I could find to describe that I thought he was OK." Smith then went on to comment to Hill that "I'm not prejudiced but if a c**n moved in next door, I'd move, like most white people would. If my daughter came home with a n****r, I'd go mad. But I'm only being truthful and normal." [3] Hill reproduced Smith's comments in his 1989 book Out Of His Skin: The John Barnes Phenomenon. Smith reacted by implying that he intended to sue Hill but he in fact had no grounds to take legal action as Hill had recorded all of Smith's comments on tape during the interview and had quoted all of his statements accurately while keeping the tape safe in his possession. Hill's book was widely praised by critics but Smith was heavily condemned for his comments quoted in the book.[4]

LOL at JB given that post mate.

http://superrecruiter.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/egg-on-face1-295x300.jpg

Nice to see you can use google and/or wikipedia so I'm sure you can use it again to back up your 'tens of thousands of pounds' link that you came in to this thread with

btw - you don't think I hadn't already read those links do you? I came in to the thread with what I remembered from memory - and much publicised at the time. I checked the story yesterday and found all the links you've posted, so laugh away TB.