Barcelona charged with corruption

KS55 said:
Hold on a mo. “Bribing referees” are they accused of paying more than one person?
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They’re so far only officially charged of bribing Negreira, who was influencing promoting/relegating referees and who would get big games like Barca or Real matches.

During this timeframe he made loads of unexplained cash withdrawals of 5 figures, and while they’ve not charged anyone else yet, the prosecution theory seems to be that those were smaller bribes handed out by Negreira to referees or facilitators.
 
Have the angelic Liverpoo (we do it the right way) complained about this yet?
 
I don't know about anyone else but it's had me thinking about how fan complaints/conspiracies about the reffing in their games went on for years and it was dismissed as saltiness/poor losers. In English football, United are in exactly the same boat and they probably had more noise around them under Fergie and there's still some headscratchers from recent seasons. Not to mention the rumoured recording of some match officials in the tunnel.

You can add Liverpool and Real to that too, to a slightly less extent.

In United's case, the 90s is probably too distant and the paper trail easier to clean up(how much of it was digitally stored in the 90s?). Still, I can't help but wonder what would have been uncovered, if only Rui Pinto had focused a lot more on the Rags.
 
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