Lower Divisions Match Fixing Scandal About To Break?

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

According to today's News Of The World. Can't post a link as they've just made their online site pay per view, but it says 'there is "damning" evidence that matches in the Championship and Lower Divisions were fixed' and that City of London police are awaiting the dossier.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

That's the B'muff ref Sheldrake and the lino f***ed then....Might also want to take a look at the Oldham ref.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

...hang on. Brighton might be implicated: All those weird goings-on under Micky Adams now become patently clear.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

English football IS corrupt, dossier claims

Published 11:43 17/10/10 By MirrorFootball

Championship and lower league matches have been fixed by a Chinese betting syndicate, according to reports.

A dossier which is about to be handed to City of London police also claims that two Premier League clubs have unknowingly been funded by the crooks, who have made £1.4m profit.

A source familiar with the allegations told the News Of The World that the scandal would "blow the cricket match fixing scandal out of the water."

He added: "There is evidence that matches have been thrown and players and club officials have accepted huge amounts of cash to fix the games."

The allegations are thought to be connected to a German court case which opened last week. Four men are charged with fixing 32 lower league matches in Belgium, Switzerland, Croatia, Hungary and Turkey.

But investigators are said to have intercepted phone calls from fixers based in London and will send on the transcripts to UK police.


Championship games fixed in English football corruption scandal, says report in News Of The World - News - MirrorFootball.co.uk

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Could get interesting...

 

[Giraffe]

Last game of the season at home to Stoke leaps out!!!!

 

[fataddick]

This explains EVERYTHING.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

This explains EVERYTHING.

Apart from Celtic paying 1.5 MILLION for Virgo

 

[Stat Brother]

Apart from Celtic paying 1.5 MILLION for Virgo

Gonna need to bring in Mulder and Scully, for that one.

 

[timco]

There is a reason the Tell Tale Tit of the world is behind a pay wall it is to protect decent people from its rubbish, kindly keep it that way.

 

[KneeOn]

In seriousness, could it be Bournemouth and that decision?

I'm looking to have some kind of reassurance that lino's aren't THAT shit by nature and that actually, he was paid off.

 

[Flavor Flav]

News of the World = shit stirrers

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Its Rochdale isn't it?

 

[Football_Friends]

Is it just going to be confined to lower leagues....that's 2 awful decisions against Blackpool and it's cost them 2 goals!

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Dick Tight put the '83 Cup Final money on 1 all draw v Bournemouth, snake in the grass!!

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Anyone know any odd chinese looking types hanging about Withdean??
















Anybody

 

[Barry Izbak]

In seriousness, could it be Bournemouth and that decision?

I joked through gritted teeth in the pub after that game that when the lino called the ref over, he actually said "Look mate, I've got this down as a draw. Any chance we could put that free kick inside the box?"

OMG if that came true

 

[Smythe]

Is it just going to be confined to lower leagues....that's 2 awful decisions against Blackpool and it's cost them 2 goals!

and its also cost Gus his record of being the top scoring south american in the premier league

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

There is a reason the Tell Tale Tit of the world is behind a pay wall it is to protect decent people from its rubbish, kindly keep it that way.

All of the Murdoch titles are going behind a paywall , based on the assumption that people will pay for online content instead of buying a physical copy of the newspaper. The Times and Sunday Times will announce later this week how many online subscribers are signed up after daily sales have dropped by around 15% over the last 12 months.

 

[RexCathedra]

It would be disappointing, but the good question is, why aren't there more such scandals?

Whenever there's a discrepancy between the sums that can be bet and won on a cert, and the sums required to shift the score, such things are almost inevitable.

It'd take a tanker-load of money to get Premiership players to lay down, considering the size of their weekly pay-packets.

The places where there's leverage are the referees everywhere -- who aren't on £100k a week -- and on players in the lower divisions.