AN EFL star has been charged with breaching betting rules by the FA.
Notts County star Lewis Macari is alleged to have placed 354 different bets.
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The offences are claimed to have taken place between February 2020 and December 2022.
Macari, 23, has been given until July 18 to respond to the charge.
The defender, who has made 61 appearances for Notts County, comes from a footballing family.
His grandfather Lou — who made 329 appearances for Manchester United between 1973 and 1984 — was found guilty of being involved in betting irregularities while managing Swindon in the late 1980s.
He was fined £1,000 in 1990 after it emerged he had bet on his own team to lose an FA Cup tie against Newcastle in 1989.
Macari, now 76, was also put on trial but acquitted for tax fraud that occurred during his time at Swindon.
Other financial irregularities that occurred at the time involving illegal payments to players saw chairman Brian Hillier receive a prison sentence.
Macari was manager of West Ham when news of the Swindon scandal broke and resigned because of the negative publicity at the time
While uncle Paul Macari played for Huddersfield and Stoke – another uncle Mike also played for The Potters.
Macari began his professional career at Stoke too but made just one appearance, in the FA Cup.
He is one of several players to be hit with a betting breach charge by The FA this month.
Former Cheltenham and Shrewsbury striker Ryan Bowman was hit with a three-and-a-half-year ban by the FA.
The 33-year-old admitted having placed 6,397 bets between June 2022 and September 2023.
While AFC Wimbledon star Osman Foyo was charged over alleged bets placed on matches 252 times between October 2023 and March 2025.
Notts County and the player will not be making any public comment while proceedings are on-going as to not prejudice the FA process.
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