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Widespread football match fixing and criminal network uncovered by Europol
A major investigation involving Europol and police teams from 13 European countries has uncovered an extensive criminal network involved in widespread football match-fixing. A total of 425 match officials, club officials, players, and serious criminals, from more than 15 countries, are suspected of being involved in attempts to fix more than 380 professional football matches. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBetween the Germans corrupt max fixing, the Italian league mafia ties, the English leagues barbaric hooligans, and the Spanish league's financial inequality... wow, what a great example, European football... NOT!
Feb 05th, 2013 - 02:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0But it's a true reflection of the culture of the continent: corrupt, criminal, violent, and unequal.
Thankfully I'm Argentine.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/football/police-smash-criminal-network-suspected-of-fixing-football-matches-including-champions-league-and-world-cup-qualifiers/story-fndb5nmd-1226570398938
Feb 05th, 2013 - 04:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0This isn't just about European soccer, Argentina is already under investigation.
What's soccer?
Feb 05th, 2013 - 05:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0A sock game?
Feb 05th, 2013 - 05:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Europol showed television coverage of a suspect match, an international between Argentina and Bolivia, during which a referee awarded a highly dubious penalty.
Feb 05th, 2013 - 07:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1 'Between the Germans, the Italian(s) , English , the Spanish '
Feb 05th, 2013 - 08:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sounds like argentina in a nutshell.....
So glad that the “World Game” is relegated to 4th most attended game on averafe in Australia. That is out of 4 codes!
Feb 05th, 2013 - 08:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Aussie Rules is home grown and might not be played or known much outside of Australia but is almost a religion here. As I was interested to learn today when this news hit, our Grand Final last year boasted the largest crowd for any final in the world.
Bigger than the World Cup, Superbowl, FA Cup and Copa Libertadores.
Not bad for a game invented in my home town.
Keep ya soccer, c'arn the Bombers!
Nostro, do me a favour and when you go back to high school this term, join the debating society. You may learn that sweeping generalisations open you up to at best being soundly beaten in a debate, at worst open yourself to ridicule.
Feb 05th, 2013 - 08:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps you would like to comment on this article. Have things improved since 2011? Difficult to think they would have but I am open to hear otherwise.
.http://m.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/aug/21/argentina-football-gangs-barra-bravas
@3 It's just some silly, mainly pointless game played by a bunch of poofters who fall down every time an opposition player comes within spitting distance.
Feb 05th, 2013 - 09:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0@9 LOL, rugby supporter?
Feb 05th, 2013 - 12:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Have some sympathy for TTT. He came to this forum all full of bravado, testosterone and misinformation fed to him from birth. He is like a child learning there is no Santa Claus and is having a tantrum, lashing out and having to come to terms with the fact that everything he thought was true about his country is a big fat lie. Notice how he has distanced himself from Argentina as a country and now only associates himself with Mendoza? Classic.
Pity the child.
@7 Anglotino
Feb 05th, 2013 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjicZeJr-zw
Funny guy
@1 nutjob the 1st: I'n normally wuld not bother with this news channel, but you Argentinian posters seem to think it is fair:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjicZeJr-zw
and one of you clubs (San Lorenzo) has just been caught trying to tap a player up from the English league, but didn't want to even pay a transfer fee.
Contracts and illegal moves for players mean nothing in Argentina? Why does it not surprise me.
@3 Association Football or 'soccer' is a rudimentary game played by poor people, and watched by poor people who cannot tell the difference between 'a sports club' and a money making 'entertainment company'. The poor people spend upwards of 90% of their benefits going to the game at £60 a ticket and buy the kit-du-week at £50 (multiply by 4 for a family). This often results in them being maintained in a perpetual state of poverty, having no money left for self-betterment of any kind.
Feb 05th, 2013 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The game consists of watching 11 fashion models run aimlessly around a pitch for 90 minutes, at which point a pre-decided result will be announced and the poor people will find they lost a sizeable bet that they put on their company winning. The poor people then have a fight outside the premises of the football entertainment company where the sides are decided by which football company you fund and policing the fight is paid for by non-football company supporters who aren't poor.
Then the poor people go home and reinforce the fact that the only way their daughter 'posh' can become anything is for her to become a singer on a TV talent show, or their son 'becks' can only become anything if he becomes one of the mindless fashion models who runs around the soccer pitch. This is because they just donated all their money to a football company.
This whole process is repeated week-upon-week, only paused for a two week period that they spend in Spain eating fish-and-chips and discussing in English how foreigners in the UK don't speak English.
Does this answer your question?
@10 Go the All Blacks!! Champions of the World :-)
Feb 06th, 2013 - 01:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0@12 Couldn't have put it better myself.
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