@Ric your post says you agree there is corruption within the English game no matter what you think you are saying. If teams are treated differently, you say favourable refereeing decisions, then that is corruption.No doubt those clubs get preferential media treatment, and some favourable refereeing decisions too. Like you say though, it’s all a bit “nudge nudge”. There’s no real smoking gun.
Nothing in the UK is 100 per cent clean. Not the police, the various churches, the media, the political establishment, and inevitably football. There is a form of corruption in every single industry ranging from people avoiding tax by being paid cash in hand or fiddling their expenses to major corporate fraud at the top end of the scale. The only question is not that corruption exists...but how widespread is it? And the truth is that none of us really knows and we never will.So football in England is clean. That’s your view fella. Let’s end it there
I think it will be a ref who will totally open the can for fame and money and I hope we have something to do with itMy prediction is that within the
next 10 years a deceased former major figure in football will be publicly implicated in corruption in English football.
I'd like to think that will be the case - but I can't see the media and the PL turning on their cash-cowMy prediction is that within the
next 10 years a deceased former major figure in football will be publicly implicated in corruption in English football.
The current government has awarded its friends, donors and its own members approximately £1.5 trillion as a result of this coronavirus emergency. Corruption is in the open if you care to look.Nothing in the UK is 100 per cent clean. Not the police, the various churches, the media, the political establishment, and inevitably football. There is a form of corruption in every single industry ranging from people avoiding tax by being paid cash in hand or fiddling their expenses to major corporate fraud at the top end of the scale. The only question is not that corruption exists...but how widespread is it? And the truth is that none of us really knows and we never will.
its being passed on to Merseyside Police to investigateWell I for one am SHOCKED
wasnt that Clattenburg first game ref'ing utd after our 1-6 win, fergie wasnt happy with clattenburg..was watching a re-run of Chelsea v Rags. DeMatteo was managing Chelsea, i believe 2012, fergie last season. That game, chelsea lost 2-3.
Guess who was reffing that game. Twattenburg. And those 2 red cards! wow if there ever was a game that demonstrated blatant fraud this was it.
Torres red card, and ivanovic.
And the offside goal that won the rags the game.
That's a good point. One of the reasons Brian Clough was mostly given a free pass for his murky financial dealings (bungs etc) was that he was just pure gold for the broadcasters and press. Even after his death he has been pretty much Teflon. He was a managerial genius and very popular so it didn't make commercial sense to attack his reputation. Don Revie on the other hand was thrown under the bus when he took money from the United Arab Emirates (even if it was legit). It was apparently the wrong sort of money. That seems to ring a bell somewhere.I'd like to think that will be the case - but I can't see the media and the PL turning on their cash-cow