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The Mick 
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| Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 10:23 am)
siap, i searched....
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These games include World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two UEFA Champions League games, one of which was in England.
Europol's chief Rob Wainwright said the investigation found "match fixing activity on a scale we have not seen before".
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Wainwright revealed the probe uncovered around £7million in betting profits and £1.27m in bribes to players and officials and has already led to several prosecutions.
The investigation identified about 425 corrupt officials, players and serious criminals in 15 countries and 50 arrests have been made so far.
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etm512
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 10:28 am to The Mick)
Ruh roh
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10888bge
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 10:32 am to The Mick)
Ohhhhh NOOOZZZZZZZZ Soccer is rigged. Say it aint so. Color me shocked.
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Broski
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 10:38 am to The Mick)
?Will more come out about Qatar?
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 10:40 am to 10888bge)
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LSUSOBEAST1
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 10:40 am to The Mick)
Yikes
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GeorgeTheGreek 
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 10:55 am to The Mick)
Damn, this is major.
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GABlueDog
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 10:58 am to The Mick)
Europeans and soccer are to corruption what peanut butter and jelly are to a sandwich.
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WarSlamEagle 
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 11:00 am to The Mick)
Now we'll find out what's been wrong with Fernando Torres.
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RandySavage
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 11:08 am to WarSlamEagle)
Benitez is in on this for sure. Also, Chelsea-Barca 09 at the Bridge is clearly the CL game in England referenced.
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thenry712 
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 11:08 am to WarSlamEagle)
I'm sure about 75% of the matches in question involve teams from Eastern Europe.
Match fixing doesn't necessarily involve the actual result being dubious. Most of it probably involves a single player acting to influence the outcome of a prop bet (first yellow card of the game, number of corners, etc.).
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LSUSOBEAST1
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 11:13 am to RandySavage)
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StraightCashHomey21 
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 11:14 am to The Mick)
just blame it on the Italians
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DestrehanTiger 
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 11:18 am to thenry712)
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Most of it probably involves a single player acting to influence the outcome of a prop bet (first yellow card of the game, number of corners, etc.).
Speaking of that, what is to stop Alicia Keys from getting someone to bet millions on the length of the national anthem for her and just extending it to reach the over?
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StraightCashHomey21
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 11:19 am to RandySavage)
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Chelsea-Barca 09 at the Bridge is clearly the CL game in England referenced.
 
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 11:19 am to RandySavage)
What do you think, Didier Drogba?
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thenry712
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 11:32 am to WarSlamEagle)
It wouldn't be the Chelsea-Barca 2009 game because it was a highly watched match. Gambling syndicates don't want any suspicions emerging in games that they're fixing. This is why a third tier Canadian League was recently indicted and disbanded for match fixing.
Not to mention, any match fixing in favor of Barcelona wouldn't make sense, considering Chelsea had the lead until injury time and Barcelona was playing a man down. If that game was fixed, Orevbro wouldn't have wrongly sent off Abidal, thus risking Barcelona not getting the equalizing goal.
It was just a horribly refereed game.
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GABlueDog
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 11:46 am to WarSlamEagle)
He must have been suffering from a reoccurrence of his malaria.
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TN Bhoy 
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 11:48 am to The Mick)
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425 corrupt officials
No more SPL refs 
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players and serious criminals
Do these count managers? Because Stuart McCall has been match fixing for years.
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The Mick
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| re: Europol investigation uncovers more than 380 suspicious matches.. (Posted on 2/4/13 at 11:58 am to thenry712)
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because it was a highly watched match. Gambling syndicates don't want any suspicions emerging in games that they're fixing.
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These games include World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two UEFA Champions League games
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