Of course they were.
Which is why a certain defender who couldnt get in a second rate notts county team,transferred to their close neigbours and looked bang average,was hardly althletic and was routinly seen blowing out his arse throughout football matches in the lower divisions..and in the prem ..until april 2015
Suddenly....transformed his physique into someone who was carved out of marble and began sprinting like linford christie,and jumping like a salmon on beetroot shoots.....all this as he got older and older.
The fact that this nondescript journeyman defender was suddenly able to leap from the foot of the premier league to the summit ,and keep up with strikers like sergio aguero, says it all ..for those prepared to engage their brain on the most outrageous deceipts in modern football history.
Some posters like mr sinatra of course cant see this and think it was a master stroke pulled off my a manager who joined leic three weeks before the season started and waved a magic wand and won the league by ten points.lol
The last match canny Claudio was involved in ,his team greece, lost at home to the faroe islands .....from one betting influenced corrupt mess to another,just the length and depth of it varied