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380 Top European football matches 'fixed'
loe.ldn.wpack
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"The European Union police agency has found evidence of match-fixing of some top international football games.
Europol head Rob Wainwright said it had carried out the biggest-ever investigation into match-fixing in Europe and described the findings as a "big problem for the integrity of European football".
Attempts to fix around 380 professional matches were identified, involving up to 425 match and club officials, players and criminals from more than 15 countries.
These included qualification matches for the World Cup and the European championships, plus two Uefa Champions League matches, one played in England.
Europol said the match-fixing generated £6.9m of betting profits in Germany alone - and there were corrupt payments of at least £1.73m to those involved."
Pretty disconcerting - Chelsea Barcelona semi-final anyone?
Europol head Rob Wainwright said it had carried out the biggest-ever investigation into match-fixing in Europe and described the findings as a "big problem for the integrity of European football".
Attempts to fix around 380 professional matches were identified, involving up to 425 match and club officials, players and criminals from more than 15 countries.
These included qualification matches for the World Cup and the European championships, plus two Uefa Champions League matches, one played in England.
Europol said the match-fixing generated £6.9m of betting profits in Germany alone - and there were corrupt payments of at least £1.73m to those involved."
Pretty disconcerting - Chelsea Barcelona semi-final anyone?
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Scary stuff...0
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Danny Baker @prodnose
This match fixing scandal. If they find a team got relegated on purpose will they make them go back up again?0 -
We now have a reason why a club as MASSIVE as Wednesday have not got their just desserts... criminal. How many trophies would they have won on a level playing field?0
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Does that explain why Barnet are so bad?soapy_jones said:We now have a reason why a club as MASSIVE as Wednesday have not got their just desserts... criminal. How many trophies would they have won on a level playing field?
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Could explain why my barnet is so bad will all the pulling of hair.0
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Always wondered how we lost to the massive , this could explain it !
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Well that's the late sub mystery cleared up then!0
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The English game is Liverpool's 2009 1-0 win over Debrecen. Dodgy keeper who has already been suspended over other games.0
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Can't see Slater shelling out to fix a few for us...0
