Saint Garrett Posted 4 February, 2013 Posted 4 February, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21319807 Match-fixing: Champions League tie played in England 'was fixed' A Champions League tie played in England is one of 380 matches across Europe investigators say was fixed. European police did not reveal the identity of the match they believe was corrupt in England. But Europol did say that they had uncovered an organised crime syndicate based in Asia that was co-ordinating the operation. Some 425 match officials, club officials, players and criminals are suspected of being involved. Europol, which has been investigating for 18 months, said suspected matches included World Cup and European Championship qualifiers, two Champions League ties and "several top football matches in European leagues". Criminals wagered 16m euros on rigged matches and made eight million Euros in profits, Europol say. Payments of two million Euros are thought to have been paid to those involved. The biggest payment to an individual was 140,000 Euros, according to investigators. Europol believes a crime syndicate based in Asia was liaising with criminal networks throughout Europe. It believes match-fixing has taken place in 15 countries and 50 people have so far been arrested. Officials said they feared this was the "tip of the iceberg". Rob Wainwright, director of Europol, said: " This is the work of a suspected organised crime syndicate based in Asia and operated with criminal networks around Europe. "It is clear to us this is the biggest-ever investigation into suspected match-fixing in Europe. It has yielded major results which we think have uncovered a big problem for the integrity of football in Europe. "We have uncovered an extensive criminal network." Europol gave the details on Monday at a news conference in The Hague, Netherlands.
Saint_clark Posted 4 February, 2013 Posted 4 February, 2013 The amounts of money quoted are insignificant to teams playing in the Champions League, why do it?
angelman Posted 4 February, 2013 Posted 4 February, 2013 There are 6 clubs it could have been if in the past 3 or 4 years....Chelsea, ManU, ManC, Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs. If found guilty, would they face relegation as has what has happened in Italy?
Saint Garrett Posted 4 February, 2013 Author Posted 4 February, 2013 There are 6 clubs it could have been if in the past 3 or 4 years....Chelsea, ManU, ManC, Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs. If found guilty, would they face relegation as has what has happened in Italy? Not sure, as it's not a domestic issue. Could maybe see them being banned from the Champions league for a season though?
Window Cleaner Posted 4 February, 2013 Posted 4 February, 2013 The amounts of money quoted are insignificant to teams playing in the Champions League, why do it? because it's not teams that fix matches per se, it's players and refs. Greedy men will do anything for a couple of extra bob whether they need it or not.
saintbletch Posted 4 February, 2013 Posted 4 February, 2013 (edited) There are 6 clubs it could have been if in the past 3 or 4 years....Chelsea, ManU, ManC, Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs. If found guilty, would they face relegation as has what has happened in Italy? Could it be that one of those teams was involved, but they won the tie and didn't realise that the other team had thrown the match? Edited 4 February, 2013 by saintbletch
Scummer Posted 4 February, 2013 Posted 4 February, 2013 United have had a few odd results in recent years, losing at home to supposedly inferior teams.
skintsaint Posted 4 February, 2013 Posted 4 February, 2013 Laugh my tits off if 'arry was taking bungs...and was the reason for getting fired from Spurs...
Saint_clark Posted 4 February, 2013 Posted 4 February, 2013 That does explain some refereeing displays.
Window Cleaner Posted 4 February, 2013 Posted 4 February, 2013 Laugh my tits off if 'arry was taking bungs...and was the reason for getting fired from Spurs... it won't be anything to do with a manager and probably not even players. It will more than likely be an iffy East European or Turkish reffing trio giving a dodgy penalty to influence the result or a blatantly offside goal being allowed.
skintsaint Posted 4 February, 2013 Posted 4 February, 2013 it won't be anything to do with a manager and probably not even players. It will more than likely be an iffy East European or Turkish reffing trio giving a dodgy penalty to influence the result or a blatantly offside goal being allowed. I know but can live in hope... Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
Window Cleaner Posted 4 February, 2013 Posted 4 February, 2013 I know but can live in hope... Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2 Fingers (no doubt just guesswork) are starting to be pointed at the 2 2009 semi-finals apparently. I remember the ref in the Chelsea -Barca game being a right useless bastard. Drogba got into real hot water over him.
Thedelldays Posted 4 February, 2013 Posted 4 February, 2013 Fingers (no doubt just guesswork) are starting to be pointed at the 2 2009 semi-finals apparently. I remember the ref in the Chelsea -Barca game being a right useless bastard. Drogba got into real hot water over him. I have to admit...that was utterly insane...how chelsea never won that was beyond me..and they never just missed chances either...
Restark19 Posted 5 February, 2013 Posted 5 February, 2013 http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/football-fa-unaware-match-fixing-investigation-175222774.html it's Liverpool's game against Debrecen which is being investigated. Apparently the Debrecen keeper was asked to ensure there were more than 3 goals in the game. Liverpool won 1-0
Restark19 Posted 5 February, 2013 Posted 5 February, 2013 just seen that same info has already been posted on the thread in the lounge.. seems i'm a bit late on this one
Window Cleaner Posted 5 February, 2013 Posted 5 February, 2013 http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/football-fa-unaware-match-fixing-investigation-175222774.html it's Liverpool's game against Debrecen which is being investigated. Apparently the Debrecen keeper was asked to ensure there were more than 3 goals in the game. Liverpool won 1-0 Hah, typical Liverpool, goalie bribed to let in at least 3 and they can only score 1.
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