article_snippet: and Britain was at war.
article_snippet: That was supposed to be encouragement for players to do things for the war effort.'
article_snippet: It was suggested that if the men joined the armed forces the men punishment would be rescinded.
article_snippet: For Turnbull it was to have tragic consequences.
article_snippet: Yet following the betting scandal and facing a life without football, Turnbull went to war.
article_snippet: West, who had been good friends with Turnbull, had continued to fight a different battle, one to clear Turnbull name.
article_snippet: He was eventually pardoned under a general amnesty in 1945, by which time He was aged 59.
article_snippet: He family carried on He fight.