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I never though the Last Boy Scout would be a documentary.I'll introduce you to the Italians.
Match fixing and corruption is endemic in football. FIFA itself is filthy. With the amount of money involved in football and the sport's close relationship with betting companies through high profile sponsorships, the issue has most certainly not gone away.
Match fixing in association football - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Just to rephrase. Fifa cannot fix the tournament with a predetermined winner.I'll introduce you to the Italians.
Match fixing and corruption is endemic in football. FIFA itself is filthy.
Match fixing in association football - Wikipedia
www.cnbc.com
Okay guys all the archeology is silly.Calciopoli - Wikipedia
Juventus, the most successful club in Italy, along with AC Milan (only Real Madrid has won more European titles), Lazio and Fiorentina were involved in one of football's biggest match-fixing scandals that even involved politicians. These are some of the highest profile clubs in the world, and especially at the time of the scandal when Italian clubs were still among Europe's heavyweights. Italy would win the 2006 FIFA World Cup while this was all unravelling.
You may not be able to fix the winner, but in a hypothetical scenario, one or more teams can receive favourable officiating that gets them far into the tournament. This is something that may have happened in 2002 when South Korea made the semi-finals with some questionable officiating on the way. In the group stage, Portugal picked up two soft red cards against the Koreans. Against Italy in the Round of 16, the Italians had multiple goals disallowed and had a player sent off for a dive in a loss to the Koreans. In the quarters, Spain had two goals disallowed, resulting in Korea knocking them out on penalties.
That's the question I was asking, are we just wasting our time? That incident was at the very least supposed to be reviewed by VAR, the ref can then decide that he still doesn't award the penalty, to just go on as if nothing happened is exceptionally odd
Well said, it is a problem that's hard to dismiss.
Ghana's performance was the most haramball thing I've ever seen (and I'm a Gooner). It wasn't because England can't score (having got 4 in the previous game). It was because Ghana's gameplan was simply to stop them from playing at all costs, and then hope for a fast counter (which they had a few times). It was 100% antifootball from Queiroz.
That was the biggest pisstake so far: they had just come back from a 4 minute injury break, played for a couple of minutes, and then the ref blew for the ad break. Same thing in the second half: just had a lengthy injury (during which the players again went to the touchline to speak to their managers and have a drink), and then the ref blew for the ad break. Can't wait until football goes back to normal.
OK, now show it in real time, not just selected frames for farming.
They review every incident. Just because the match isn't stopped doesn't mean they're not doing it. This isn't rugby.
