BRUCE Grobbelaar is back in the big time. The controversial 'keeper, who is facing charges of breaking betting rules, has joined Premier League Sheffield Wednesday on a three-month loan after less than a week at First Division Oxford United.
The 39-year-old Zimbabwean was preparing to travel with Oxford to York for Tuesday night's League Cup game when he was released to join Wednesday.
Grobbelaar, a former Premier League goalkeeper at Liverpool and Southampton, was signed by Wednesday manager David Pleat after Kevin Pressman suffered a groin injury in Saturday's 0-0 draw with Coventry.
Oxford received 'a nominal fee' from Wed-nesday for agreeing to release Grobbelaar.
'We had a gentlemen's agreement that if a club came in and offered him better terms we would let him go, and obviously Sheffield Wednesday have offered him better money than we can,' Oxford United secretary Mick Brown said of the move.
Grobbelaar was charged by the Football Association last week with breaking betting rules, a month after he and two other players were acquitted by a court of match-fixing charges. During the trial, Grobbelaar admitted being paid to forecast match results.