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  1. Matt Slater ‏@mattslaterbbc
    Europol now clarifying it was a CL game in Eng, not 'Uefa Cup', played in last 3-4yrs but they can't identify it for legal reasons
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    Matt Slater ‏@mattslaterbbc
    Of these 380+ rigged games, Europol says one, a Uefa Cup game, was played in England; UK offices were also raided by German police
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    Matt Slater ‏@mattslaterbbc
    Betting syndicates based in Asia & Europe rigged games at almost every every level, incl CL and World Cup qualifiers
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  4. Matt Slater ‏@mattslaterbbc
    Europol is revealing details of huge investigation into match-fixing in football since 2009: 425 suspects, 380 games, 15 countries
 
Match-fixing: Champions League tie played in England 'was fixed'
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.
At a news conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Europol claimed:
  • The fixed Champions League tie in England took place in "last three or four years";
  • The identity of that match cannot be revealed due to "ongoing judicial proceedings";
  • Other "corrupt" matches included World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and "several top football matches in European leagues";
  • In Germany-based matches alone, criminals wagered £13.8m (16m euros) on rigged matches and made £6.9m in profits
  • Officials fear this is as the "tip of the iceberg".
Rob Wainwright, director of Europol - the European Union's law enforcement agency, 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, 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".
In addition to the £13.8m wagered on Germany-based matches, payments of £1.73m are thought to have been paid to those involved. The biggest payment to an individual was £121,000, 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.
Asked specifically about the allegations surrounding the Champions League tie held in England, Wainwright declined to identify the match because of "ongoing judicial proceedings".
However he did say it happened in the last three to four years, before adding: "The focus has been on other countries, not the United Kingdom. However we were surprised by the scale generally of the criminal enterprise and just how widespread it was.
"It would be naive and complacent of those in the UK to think such a criminal conspiracy does not involve the English game and all the football in Europe."
 
Waiting to hear that Gudjohnsen was on the take in 2005 🙁
 
I've always thought that there's only one real reason why football governing bodies don't actually want to fix the inaccuracy of refereeing by selective use of video & goal line technology.
 
It won't be a high profile game. It will be a nonsense game that didn't matter coz the team were already knocked out and it will be something like six bookings or beaten by more than 2 goals or some shit like that. There's no way you could fix a match that everyone needed a result from, but you could easy do it with some crap side that couldn't even get into the Europa.
 
Jumping the gun a bit to assume it was an PL team.... You would suspect that the players already on huge cash at the PL clubs should make it harder to fix. Ref? smaller club? 400 games they say... flippin heck
 
Huge wages / transfer fees / agent fees could be part of an intricate arrangement, and also, it's probably incorrect to assume people who earn more are less corruptible.
 
Woland said:
It won't be a high profile game. It will be a nonsense game that didn't matter coz the team were already knocked out and it will be something like six bookings or beaten by more than 2 goals or some shit like that. There's no way you could fix a match that everyone needed a result from, but you could easy do it with some crap side that couldn't even get into the Europa.
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Wayne Rooney failed to keep control of his emotions last night as he was sent off in shame during England's match against Montenegro - the day after his father and uncle were arrested and bailed in connection with a 'football betting scam'.
The £180,000-a-week Manchester United star, who is worth £37million, lost control 17 minutes from time and kicked out at Miodrag Dzudovic.



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I always thought he overreacted to the challenge.
One can hope!!!!
 
Spionkop69 said:
That was the game that jumped out at me. Was it in the last 3/4 years though? Thought that was back in 2007 or something?
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Yes. I think that was investigated at the time.


Report from 2007:
Liverpool have been dragged into the match-fixing scandal that has rocked European football.
There are reports that the 8-0 Champions League win over Besiktas last month is considered suspicious because of irregular betting patterns. UEFA officials refused to confirm or deny the allegations.

Only last weekend UEFA president Michel Platini said the 'criminal phenomena' in sport had become a 'big problem' after confirming that the European governing body were looking into matches in Eastern Europe that may have been fixed by gangster-run betting syndicates.
UEFA are working with Europol, the pan-European police force. Platini plans to hold a conference with From Back Page European Commission vice-president Franco Frattini to look at moneylaundering, match-fixing and illegal betting in football.
William Gaillard, UEFA's director of communications, said last night that an InterToto Cup game between Makedonija and Cherno More in July was the only game being officially investigated. Others were simply considered suspicious because of irregular betting patterns.
One look at Liverpool's group is enough to raise concern.
Besiktas have a goal difference of minus nine ? compared to Liverpool's of plus nine ? but go into next week's final game against Porto still able to qualify ahead of the 2005 champions.
After losing 8-0 at Anfield on November 6, with Yossi Benayoun scoring a hattrick, players and staff from the Turkish club said how 'ashamed' they were.
Investigators for Sueddeutsche Zeitung, a Munich daily, claim that there was 'frenzied betting on a high-score victory' prior to the game. UEFA have made no contact with Liverpool and last night officials at Anfield said they could not comment because they had no knowledge of any controversy.
But reports in Germany suggest that Besiktas players, on a fraction of the salaries earned by Liverpool stars, could have been targeted by Asian betting syndicates.
"At this stage I can neither confirm nor deny the reports," Gaillard told Sportsmail. "There has to be a certain amount of confidentiality with these things because we could risk a source of information drying up."


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Finally it's confirmed. We're so shit in front of goal that even when the keeper is bribed we manage to make it look like a 10/10 performance!
 
From 101gg:

Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet have come out with a stunning claim this evening, just hours after Europol said over 680 games have been fixed worldwide.

Much of the press speculation in the UK revolved around the fact a Champions League game based in England, over the last 3 to 4 years, was one of the fixed matches and Ekstra Bladet seem certain that it was Liverpool’s 1-0 win over Debrecen in 2009.

They suggest that Debrecen goalkeeper Vukasin Poleksic was bribed to ensure that there were over 2.5 goals in the match.

However, Liverpool had a poor night in front of goal and Poleksic only conceded one, where he punched out a shot from Fernando Torres into the path of Dirk Kuyt to claim the winner.

In text messages recovered by police – the people behind the match fixing bemoaned the fact Steven Gerrard missed some presentable chances against Debrecen.
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I think this is being blown up out of proportion. We're supposed to believe that all these games were fixed using a network of hundreds/thousands of people over years for a paltry 6.9m profit. There's much more profitable crime out there for much less hassle and with less risk.
 
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