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Sports => Football => Topic started by: FF on April 18, 2007, 11:18:34 AM

Title: Match Fixing LOL
Post by: FF on April 18, 2007, 11:18:34 AM
http://football.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6567226,00.html

http://football.guardian.co.uk/Fiver/0,,2060287,00.html

Allyuh could believe Abedi Pele even appealing??

Pele set up FC Nania back in his homeland 10 years ago and last month the club stood on the verge of reaching the country's top flight for the first time. Going into the last day of the season, Nania were level on points with Great Mariners, with both sides knowing goal difference could be crucial in deciding who gets promoted. Mariners duly found the net 28 times without reply in an obviously above-board victory over Mighty Jets - only to be pipped to the top by Nania, who squeezed past Okwawu United 31-0. Both matches had been 1-0 at half-time.

Somehow sensing foul play was afoot, the Ghanaian FA launched an immediate investigation and quickly concluded that money had changed hands at half-time in both games. It demoted and fined all four teams and suspended 46 players and officials for a year. All have protested their innocence and vowed to appeal, not least Pele, who insists that his side's second-half rampage can be explained by the simple fact that Okwawu were down to seven men following genuine injuries to four players, including their first- and second-choice keepers.

"My contention is that while the scoreline may raise eyebrows, it doesn't provide irrefutable proof that the match was fixed," he howled. "I've never even met the Okwawu chairman," continued Pele, who also claimed he'd left the stadium long before the match's curious denouement - which, of course, means that when his brother, Solar Ayew, described him being carried shoulder-high across the pitch by jubilant fans after the final whistle he was gravely mistaken.

Title: Re: Match Fixing LOL
Post by: DeSoWa on April 18, 2007, 11:21:56 AM
 ;D  :rotfl: dis should be in de jokes section  ;D

Big Up!
Title: Re: Match Fixing LOL
Post by: JDB on April 18, 2007, 11:56:03 AM

Here how the scoring went though:

At half-time both Jets and Nania are leading 1-0.

After 55 minutes, the Jets are up 3-0 and Nania are leading 2-0.

After 60 minutes, The Jets rolling at 5-0 and Nania still leading 2-0.

Full time scores:

Mighty Jets 29 Mariners 0
Nania          31  Okwawu 0


Now I not even going to entertain the thought that this was not a fix, but imagine that things soooo bad that you have to set up an unbelievable score because you know that your opponent is going to cheat in an equally ridiculous and unscrupulous fashion.

The irony is if one of the teams didn’t cheat they probably would have been promoted by default after the cheating team got punished.
Title: Re: Match Fixing LOL
Post by: Papasmurf on April 18, 2007, 11:59:08 AM
Not even a 5 nill self...steups...d fellahs couldnt knock the ball around...?
Title: Re: Match Fixing LOL
Post by: asylumseeker on December 17, 2012, 10:34:25 PM
Video of the 2 games that have now led to FIFA suspending the South African FA Chief and 4 others.

http://www.youtube.com/v/BvpYogEGnF8

http://www.youtube.com/v/UQEqa2xI9DU

According to the BBC:
Quote
South Africa's 5-0 win over Guatemala and 2-1 win over Colombia in May 2010 - two weeks before the World Cup kicked off - have long been under suspicion.

Niger referee Chaibou Ibrahim awarded three penalties for handball in the Guatemala game and Fifa has been trying to question him for more than a year over his handling of several matches.

All three goals in the match against Colombia, refereed by a Kenyan official, came from penalty kicks.
Title: Re: Match Fixing LOL
Post by: Deeks on December 18, 2012, 04:36:56 PM
Mariners duly found the net 28 times without reply in an obviously above-board victory over Mighty Jets - only to be pipped to the top by Nania, who squeezed past Okwawu United 31-0. Both matches had been 1-0 at half-time


1-0 after half-time  :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

This has to be a script for Saturday Night Live!!!
Title: Re: Match Fixing LOL
Post by: D.H.W on December 18, 2012, 06:42:39 PM
Dumb c**ts
Title: Re: Match Fixing LOL
Post by: Tallman on September 22, 2023, 07:11:02 AM
Lewis: TTFA must investigate match fixing and not bury its head in the sand
By Walter Alibey (T&T Guardian)


Brian Lewis, the chairman of the Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA)-Gender, Race, Inclusion, and Diversity (GRID) Sports Committee is calling on the T&T Football Association to address allegations urgently of match-fixing that have been brought to them.

The scourge of match-fixing which has negatively impacted nearly every major professional sports league in the world, especially football and cricket, has reared its ugly head in local football.

Guaya United coach, Travis Mulraine, has called on the TTFA to investigate concerns of match-fixing which has emerged in the local game, admitting that he has had to get rid of five players who were determined to be the culprits.

Incredibly, Mulraine told Guardian Media Sports that when informed about the possibility of games being fixed in Tier 1 and Tier 2 of the local Premier Football League, rather than launch an immediate investigation, the TTFA’s response was for them (Guaya) to provide the evidence first.

This approach was rubbished by Lewis, who said: “Now that the coach of Guaya United has made such an allegation, to simply say to bring the evidence is tantamount to hiding your heads in the sand.

"Allegations of match-fixing in local football is something that the TTFA must address and take seriously. It is not the first time that there have been those allegations, and the reality is that it is well established that there is an international betting syndicate, and SIGA has been speaking about it, advocating and trying to get authorities all over the world to address the threat and the issue."

The immediate past president of the T&T Olympic Committee (TTOC) went on, "It is something that the TTFA, Concacaf, the Caribbean Football Union), and all the relevant authorities must take seriously and address. I am sure that the SIGA will be more than happy to assist in whatever way it can, as like everything else negative, it must be nipped in the bud. We cannot turn a blind eye and not take it seriously or address it, as it is a cause for grave concern."

As to the local match-fixing, Mulraine, a former national midfielder now turned coach, described it as being run by an international betting syndicate that allows local players to be paid based on the results of their matches.

He believes the TTFA should do more than just ask them for concrete proof, “The only form of evidence we had was from people who spoke about the actual players placing bets, followed by the results of the games. I believe once an allegation of that nature has been reported, the TTFA should do everything in its power to investigate it."

SIGA, a Geneva, Switzerland-based non-profit global independent organization, is considered the world's leading organisation for Sport Integrity and is co-chaired by Karin Korb.
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