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Match-fixing: Champions League tie played in England 'was fixed'
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Posts: 3,122February 4 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.
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Posts: 3,122February 4 i'm not even a little bit surprised........this could become a huge story.....
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Posts: 2,035February 4OGV said:
There's no mystery... just arrest Blatter, Platini and the FA...
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And Collina.. -
Posts: 909February 4Yobowannabe said:
And Collina..
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it hurts too much to see his name... -
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Posts: 313February 4 Bet you it was a RS game lol, rekon itll emerge that a few prem gamed have been fixed over the years, blatter and co will still worm themselves out of it some how
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Posts: 553February 4onlybluewilldo said:
Bet you it was a RS game lol, rekon itll emerge that a few prem gamed have been fixed over the years, blatter and co will still worm themselves out of it some how
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Our CL game against Villereal was probably fixed. The world is against us1
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Posts: 3,122February 4Dick Van Dyke said:
Our CL game against Villereal was probably fixed. The world is against us1
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probably?..............DEFINATELY........ -
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Posts: 230February 4 Surely step 1 is to arrest whoever bets massive on longshots n allways wins, n defo arrest the knobs who keep turnin t lights of at matches. That one should be well easy.
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Posts: 72February 4 i am not surprised at all - money is the root of all evil - and football has too much of it-surely a few officials are also sleeping badly lately
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Posts: 957February 4HOWIE8 said:
EUROPOL is an anagram of EU R POOL, got to be somat in that me thinks......
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It is also an anagram of Poo Rule, which is a now-outmoded system of government, in which parliament is comprised of those citizens who can lay the longest cable. This makes no sense whatsoever.
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Posts: 957February 4 I not fuming, just a little bit annoyed. I wrote an essay on this subject, and posted it in the Comments section under this newspaper article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/european/9846954/Match-fixing-investigation-finds-380-fixed-games-including-Champions-League-match-played-in-England.html
To date, it has received 2 "Recommend"s. Underneath, someone has replied, "You should get out more." That has accrued 7 "Recommend"s. Even if you discount the Recommend that I added to the Reply, that still leaves 6, which is four more. Philistines. I thought the Telegraph was read by thoughtful types in bowler hats. Now it seems that some of them, at least, wear baseball caps, backwards, with prominent advertising of common-as-muck brands on them. If I had a Twitface account, I would type #Disillusioned, like Joey Barton does but spelt right. -
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Posts: 313February 5onlybluewilldo said:
Bet you it was a RS game lol, rekon itll emerge that a few prem gamed have been fixed over the years, blatter and co will still worm themselves out of it some how
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Told you:-D :-" -
Posts: 3,122February 5onlybluewilldo said:
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rekon itll emerge that a few prem gamed have been fixed over the years, blatter and co will still worm themselves out of it some how
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Told you
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Well we mightn't be too innocent when that day arrives.....cough cough hans segers & dean holdsworth :-$
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