Articles tagged with "match-fixing"
Check Your Fridge. Bruce Grobbelar Might Be in There.
By Daryl | August 6th, 2009Here's a nice little gambling commercial from PaddyPower, with former Liverpool keeper Bruce Grobbelar jumping out of a guy's fridge to refund a losing bet. I ...
The Accused Fixed Match In Russia
By chris | June 16th, 2009Another day, another accusation of match fixing in Eastern Europe. No surprise it's Russia, where the rumblings are around on a seemingly permanent basis. Terez Grozny ...
Match-Fixing Alive & Well
By chris | April 27th, 2009Despite the European seasons winding down and races beginning to dwindle, the betting industry has seen some marked spikes in betting. So marked a few ...
UEFA To Charge 'Club X' With Match-Fixing
By chris | March 25th, 2009Excellent news. Someone has fixed a match. Or multiple matches. And UEFA has caught the dirty, cheatin' scoundrels. Or so they say. UEFA's planning to unleash ...
Daily Dose: December 11th, 2008.
By chris | December 11th, 2008Stuff to read while you relive a poor career decision...... Wenger needs to buy muzzles in the January window. (SoccerLens) Talking through Spain's match fixing. (ESPN) Djimi Traore's ...
Reports of Match-Fixing Rock Spain
By chris | December 4th, 2008Match fixing in football is, unfortunately, nothing new. Some may even say it's par for the course, particularly if we're talking about Eastern European football ...
The New Premier League Drug Test That Even Rio Ferdinand Can't Escape From
By Daryl | November 11th, 2008Remember when Rio Fedinand "forgot" to go to his drug test? That won't be happening again. And not just because Rio seems to be a ...
Match Fixing in England?
By Daryl | October 16th, 2008There just might be. There's an investigation going on right now into Derby County's 2-1 win over Norwich City at Carrow Road on October 4th, and ...
Was Last Year's UEFA Cup Fixed?
By chris | October 1st, 2008Before this goes too far: The claims that Zenit St. Petersburg's UEFA Cup win was bought are being made by Russian mafiosi. Hardly the most ...
Potential Match Fixing In Italy
By chris | July 5th, 2008What's that I smell? Is that...Luciano Moggi? More questions now surrounding thaegitimacy of two matches in Serie A this season, after a year of refereeing which ...
Porto are Kicked OUT of the Champions League
By Rob | June 4th, 2008Despite winning the league of Portugal, FC Porto will not be able to play in the next Champions League UEFA ruled this morning. If you ...
Porto Win Their 23rd Title But Could Be Relegated
By Inara | April 6th, 2008Porto cruised to their third successive title today after beating Estrela Amadora 6-0 at home. Now that's what I call winning with style. Watch Lucho ...
Bookies and Bribery in British Football
By Daryl | April 4th, 2008I'm sure everyone's already seen or heard today's big story by now. If not, then here are the basics: an unnamed footballer accepted a £50,000 ...
More Match Fixing, This Time It's Poland
By chris | January 17th, 2008Unfortunately, this isn't really a rare occasion anymore. Calciopoli got the most media attention due to its wide ranging implications - most importantly and least ...
Germans Sue Match-Fixing Referee for Millions
By Laurie | January 7th, 2008Match fixing doesn't pay in Germany. Or rather, it does pay, to the tune of €67,000 and a plasma TV. But if the ...
Liverpool record win under investigation
By Ian Rose | December 5th, 2007Technically, this is Champions League news, and not UEFA Cup, but I'm trying to stay on top of the developments on this, so what the ...
Match-Fixing Probe Won't Give England Back-Door Route Into Euros
By Laurie | December 3rd, 2007Admit it. If you're an England fan, you read the words "Match-fixing probe" and "Euro qualifiers" this weekend and nearly passed out, didn't you? ...
Two UEFA Cup matches under investigation
By Ian Rose | December 1st, 2007The news is still pretty sketchy, but among the 15 matches in UEFA's report to Interpol about match fixing are apparently two from our dearest ...
Shocker: Another match fixing scandal in Italy
By Bob | October 9th, 2007We all thought that Italian football had turned the corner, right? We thought that the match fixing scandals were a thing of the past ...
Abedi Pele needs to work on his Match-Fixing skills
By Bob | April 17th, 2007You all are undoubtedly honest people. Let's suspend reality for a moment and say that you are dishonest. In fact, you are willing ...
Oh Look, Another Scandal
By Martha | December 6th, 2006Man alive. I spend a day traveling and in meetings, and all hell breaks loose -- in addition to the Champions League excitement, there's the ...
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