CL draw fixed?

[clarkey]

Champions League draw "leaked" on Liverpool website or is it a lucky prediction?

Could be a serious investigation of UEFA if true.

http://forums.icnorthwest.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=33755&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

 

[Conkers]

Link not working.

Edit: Seems to be ok now, just taking an age to load.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

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Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:28 am Post subject: Possible leak of draw

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Rumour going around draw has been leaked..... this is no doubt rubbish but if Rumour is true it's LFC - arsenal and Chelsea - fenerbache and manure v roma
No bookies will take bets on the draw either.......
Let the draw commence. Comeeee on!

 

[pasty]

Nah, don't believe it. If UEFA were going to fix the draw in any way, then the 4 English teams would have been drawn against each other to get 2 of them out.

 

[Conkers]

With the odds Ladbrokes gave, a £10 stake would have won you over £17,000 if you predicted all 4 games correctly.

 

[sten_super]

That's hilarious. I've no idea if it's standard practice for bookies to take bets on things like draws... I'd imagine not, as it's hard to 'create value' in this kind of thing (you couldn't exactly change the odds on any two teams being drawn, seeing as it's supposed to be random). However it does look quite suspicious. I love the scousers on there suggesting that it may be hot balls and cold balls... without realising that that would only ensure that you kept the 4 big teams apart! It would do nothing for ensuring the right teams were matched up.

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

Is there anywhere that the draw was actually posted before being announced?

edit: Really must learn to read

 

[Rigoglioso]

It's just a lucky prediction turned into a conspiracy theory I reckon. Although it is quite odd.

The hot and cold balls thing is just plain rubbish.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

heated balls is possible. having a device in each ball which can either heat it or vibrate it on the push of a remote button elsewhere would be easy to do.

still i dont think it would happen

 

[Conkers]

Is the Champions League draw fixed? - Yahoo! Answers

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

Mystery as Champions League draw appears on internet two hours early - Mirror.co.uk

 

[Conkers]

UEFA were pretty quick to deny that anything shifty was going on....

 

[beorhthelm]

one draw, thats a lucky guess. all four? that does look a bit dodgy doesnt it. cant see how they could do it though. also wonder how many threads popped up with the same subject but different draws, someone could have set up the conspiracy.

 

[bright1064]

With the odds Ladbrokes gave, a £10 stake would have won you over £17,000 if you predicted all 4 games correctly.

Well if it was just a prediction by someone hoping to cause a stir, I hope they put money on it.

Imagine how gutted you would be if you predicted all the correct fixtures, but didn't put any money on it!

 

[Conkers]

Well if it was just a prediction by someone hoping to cause a stir, I hope they put money on it.

Imagine how gutted you would be if you predicted all the correct fixtures, but didn't put any money on it!

Thinking about it, I doubt you would have been able to put them in an accumulator because the Mirror says the odds were 191/1 so ladbrokes would have lost money if people could put them in an acc. Still massive odds though!

 

[TSB]

I thought it was rigged when Chelsea got Fenerbache.....appears i was right. at Platini.

 

[SNOOBS]

That's hilarious. I've no idea if it's standard practice for bookies to take bets on things like draws... I'd imagine not, as it's hard to 'create value' in this kind of thing (you couldn't exactly change the odds on any two teams being drawn, seeing as it's supposed to be random). However it does look quite suspicious. I love the scousers on there suggesting that it may be hot balls and cold balls... without realising that that would only ensure that you kept the 4 big teams apart! It would do nothing for ensuring the right teams were matched up.

I think it was a joke