Match fixing confirmed (including in England)

I used to work with a Portuguese guy who was a big football fan. We had a long conversation one night about match fixing and he genuinely could not comprehend it when I told him the refs here are 100% straight. Incompetent on a very regular basis but ultimately straight. He just could not grasp the concept of it when compared to refs in Portugal and Spain - where he claimed it was widely known that refs are complicit on occcasions and fixing whilst not an everyday occurence did happen on a reasonably regular basis.

I'm not sure that our refs are 100% straight now...
 
If I was going to try and fix matches it wouldn't be with the bigger clubs. I would look for games that had more chance of escaping under the radar. It would be amazing if the rags were stripped of some titles due to some wrong doings but I think it is more likely that smaller clubs are involved.
 
Seems to be a few "power cuts" of lights going out of late also. At the Fulham v Utd game and at last nights superbowl. Probably nothing but a power cut but never know...
 
nijinsky's fetlocks said:
M18CTID said:
The biggest issue I had with the "brown envelopes" thread is that some posters wouldn't even begin to entertain the idea that there could be a possibility that the Premier League may be open to corruption. Fact is, if people can be bought in Italy and Germany then they can also be bought in England. History shows that people have been guilty of match-fixing here in the past so why is it not possible for it to happen again?
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Could you please do me a huge favour,mate?
Just name me three posters out of the 50 odd thousand we have on the forum who have actually stated that they would never even entertain the idea of corruption in England.
As opposed to those who don't discount the possibility,but would like to see some proof first,such as myself.
-- Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:07 pm --

MSP said:
People don't even have to be bought, they could be blackmailed to do it.

You shag some underage or some granny :) and you don't want public to know it.

Then some big guy knocks on your door...
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Yeah - Stevie G & Waynetta did a cracking job of keeping that one quiet,didn't they?
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I seem to remember you and TCM (TCM in particular) scoffing at the idea that Far East betting syndicates may have some hold over the outcome of Premier League matches. It wasn't a case of you both asking for evidence, more a case that there was no way it was possible and that anyone thinking it was possible was off their head. Even when it was explained to you on more than one occasion how it might work with betting patterns, etc. you didn't get it.<br /><br />-- Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:56 pm --<br /><br />
The cookie monster said:
M18CTID said:
The biggest issue I had with the "brown envelopes" thread is that some posters wouldn't even begin to entertain the idea that there could be a possibility that the Premier League may be open to corruption. Fact is, if people can be bought in Italy and Germany then they can also be bought in England. History shows that people have been guilty of match-fixing here in the past so why is it not possible for it to happen again?
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Actually mate some folk were saying the prem is corrupt
All some of us did was ask for evidence
As yet not one jot of it in over 20 years,and no one found guilty of anything.
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You were the biggest WUM of the lot on that thread. As for no evidence of corruption in over 20 years, have you never heard of Bruce Grobelaar, Hans Segers, or the floodlight betting scam?
 
M18CTID said:
nijinsky's fetlocks said:
M18CTID said:
The biggest issue I had with the "brown envelopes" thread is that some posters wouldn't even begin to entertain the idea that there could be a possibility that the Premier League may be open to corruption. Fact is, if people can be bought in Italy and Germany then they can also be bought in England. History shows that people have been guilty of match-fixing here in the past so why is it not possible for it to happen again?
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Could you please do me a huge favour,mate?
Just name me three posters out of the 50 odd thousand we have on the forum who have actually stated that they would never even entertain the idea of corruption in England.
As opposed to those who don't discount the possibility,but would like to see some proof first,such as myself.
-- Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:07 pm --

MSP said:
People don't even have to be bought, they could be blackmailed to do it.

You shag some underage or some granny :) and you don't want public to know it.

Then some big guy knocks on your door...
Click to expand...

Yeah - Stevie G & Waynetta did a cracking job of keeping that one quiet,didn't they?
Click to expand...

I seem to remember you and TCM (TCM in particular) scoffing at the idea that Far East betting syndicates may have some hold over the outcome of Premier League matches. It wasn't a case of you both asking for evidence, more a case that there was no way it was possible and that anyone thinking it was possible was off their head. Even when it was explained to you on more than one occasion how it might work with betting patterns, etc. you didn't get it.

-- Mon Feb 04, 2013 4:56 pm --

The cookie monster said:
M18CTID said:
The biggest issue I had with the "brown envelopes" thread is that some posters wouldn't even begin to entertain the idea that there could be a possibility that the Premier League may be open to corruption. Fact is, if people can be bought in Italy and Germany then they can also be bought in England. History shows that people have been guilty of match-fixing here in the past so why is it not possible for it to happen again?
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Actually mate some folk were saying the prem is corrupt
All some of us did was ask for evidence
As yet not one jot of it in over 20 years,and no one found guilty of anything.
Click to expand...

You were the biggest WUM of the lot on that thread. As for no evidence of corruption in over 20 years, have you never heard of Bruce Grobelaar, Hans Segers, or the floodlight betting scam?
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Did a jury find them guilty or not guilty?

And anyway the thread was all about refs being paid off
In fact iirc the whole debate started about the prem and fa instructing that refs make sure the rags dont lose...
Me and a few others said it was bollocks..
 
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