Corruption in English football?

[Kippax77]

It's got to the stage where TV and the media are influencing football too much. What we are witnessing is manipulation on a large scale, heroes, villains, scandals it's now a soap opera with footballers being the actors and the arbiters writing the script.

Too true

 

[bluemanchester]

I'd advise you all to start following Rugby League. A sport where the players have huge courage and put their bodies and livelihoods on the line week in week out for a salary less than most of us on here earn. The game is quick and skillful and exciting with a bit of niggle. You can take your family to a game and mix with opposition supporters with only occasional trouble. It produces sportsman like Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield who both are top class. What's not to like? I was a regular at Maine Road for years but now the game isn't there for the likes of me.....60 year old working class ex forces white Englishman...Sly and the BBC have made sure of that!

I can't disagree with you regarding rugby and its supporters. I played social rugby union well into middle age which is a different game to league but the courage of the players at the top, in both codes, is breathtaking. Many end up with broken bodies and long term injuries that put footballers to shame. Football though is a game for the masses and has a huge presence all over the world. This in turn brings it to the attention of the gambling overlords who make fortunes from the premier league and will almost certainly put pressure on the officials in charge of the game. Now with VAR, which was brought in to make the game more transparent we are seeing cheating in full view. The Tottenham champions league game and the replays of the handball shown during the game were missing the one where the camera angle confirmed it was handball but that angle was hidden untill after the game, this shows how the cheating in full view is now conducted.

 

[The Future is Blue]

I can't disagree with you regarding rugby and its supporters. I played social rugby union well into middle age which is a different game to league but the courage of the players at the top, in both codes, is breathtaking. Many end up with broken bodies and long term injuries that put footballers to shame. Football though is a game for the masses and has a huge presence all over the world. This in turn brings it to the attention of the gambling overlords who make fortunes from the premier league and will almost certainly put pressure on the officials in charge of the game. Now with VAR, which was brought in to make the game more transparent we are seeing cheating in full view. The Tottenham champions league game and the replays of the handball shown during the game were missing the one where the camera angle confirmed it was handball but that angle was hidden untill after the game, this shows how the cheating in full view is now conducted.

Thanks mate.....I continue to watch all of City's games if I can and some of the Rags and Dippers with the hope that VAR is knackered and their opponents have a chance of beating the c**ts! I was just advocating that some posters might want to watch another sport which has more in common with working class people rather than the product that football has become that caters to overseas audiences and supporters who can afford to blow the best part of £100 to attend the match like we used to!

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

There is corruption in politics, business etc so why not football where there is so much money. You only have to look at who has been the PFA leader for the last 39 years with no sign of any change despite the guy now being 76. Same for most of the UEFA / FIFA power leaders. Brown envelope bungs is nothing new, dodgy agents etc yet no journalist seems to want to expose anything. In years to come someone will have the guts to bring it all down but it will be a long time.

It took a long time for corruption and cheating to be exposed in cycling and even then it was only reported because of a couple of outlier journalists. The media ignored it for years even though they knew it was going on. The same is true of athletics. The only question for me is how widespread is corruption in football... not that it doesn't exist.

 

[chaddblue]

If you count the 2 that were awarded v us and Spurs that were begrudgingly overturned, they've had 20 penalties in 39 games since the restart in all comps.

I bet nowhere near half were stonewall pens either

 

[FightLikeAGirl]

When you look at sport in general there is numerous 100% proven incidences of corruption, anyone who thinks there is no corruption within the premier league is naive imo.

Scratch a PL club, find something dodgy. Everton included. Being sponsored by SportPesa for instance.

 

[FightLikeAGirl]

I am a football fan I dont watch a sport just because i need to watch a sport.

Me too. Never liked rugby, I find it hard to understand. I like athletics and F1, but that's it.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

You don't have to hear it, you can see it.

Look at the incidents involving penal offences. Nigh on identical offences - trips, holding, pushing, handling the ball (but this is a bigger lottery than Euromillions nowadays!) and refs are straight on 'em in certain penalty areas but not in others. I've seen refs pointing to the spot before the diving scarlet-clad bastard has hit the ground, whereas various wrestling moves using hands, feet 'n legs put some refs into a trance as though they have been struck blind. The same goes for red and yellow cards. I'm certain that Ferny now knows that every game he plays the whistling wanker will issue a yellow card as the default on any tackle where the oppo player hits the ground and/or screams like a banshee. The thinnest of lines exists between incompetence and corruption.

 

[Bozzie]

Ah I knew there was a Bolton connection. The individual has a Kojak style haircut?

I can only reiterate that, to quote one of my Man U supporting friends: "Well he was a United fan when I knew him"

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

It's got to the stage where TV and the media are influencing football too much. What we are witnessing is manipulation on a large scale, heroes, villains, scandals it's now a soap opera with footballers being the actors and the arbiters writing the script.

It is clear that the broadcasters are complicit in the abuse of VAR. It has got to the stage where they show constant playbacks of things like penalty claims rather than examples of brilliant football. There is a selective use of camera angles which always seem to be biased in favour of clubs like United. The broadcasters are actively encouraging diving these days. The media is a huge part of the problem.