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[DaBoltsNIsles]

Probably Barcelona

Messi & Drogba? Opposing goalies will have anxiety attacks before every game.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Italian Premier Mario Monti wants Italy soccer suspended 2-3 years


http://www.sportsnet.ca/soccer/2012/05/29/italy_match_fixing_premier_wants_suspension/

 

[puckhead]

Dawn raids on Monday resulted in 14 arrests -- including Lazio captain Stefano Mauri -- to bring the total number of suspects arrested to about 50 since last year. Many more have been placed under investigation.

I shouldn't be enjoying this, right?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Dawn raids on Monday resulted in 14 arrests -- including Lazio captain Stefano Mauri -- to bring the total number of suspects arrested to about 50 since last year. Many more have been placed under investigation.

I shouldn't be enjoying this, right?

meh ... eventually other countries will try and crack down on their problems ... because its happening everywhere

I think its just that investigative journalism in Italy is on a whole nutha level because they have alot of practice exposing corruption ... its semi-dirty ... its payola ... it borders on witchhunting ... its just like match-fixing itself lol

video below ... at first glance, obviously intentional????



This inquiry is all about figures in the game allegedly colluding with underworld betting interests in Italy and abroad; players and coaches allegedly fixing games either for personal gain, or perhaps in some cases because they came under pressure from gangsters.

A classic example of the problem surfaced some weeks ago.

As the inquiry unfolded, TV news channels showed archive footage of a defender for the southern club Bari scoring an own goal in a game last year.

The player, Andrea Masiello, collapsed to the ground with his head in his hands, apparently horrified at his blunder.

But it was being widely reported that after being arrested just recently, he had confessed to deliberately sticking the ball in his own net in return for hundreds of thousands of euros.

 

[mattola]

Italian Premier Mario Monti wants Italy soccer suspended 2-3 years


Monti wants Italy soccer suspended 2-3 years - sportsnet.ca

Dawn raids on Monday resulted in 14 arrests -- including Lazio captain Stefano Mauri -- to bring the total number of suspects arrested to about 50 since last year. Many more have been placed under investigation.

I shouldn't be enjoying this, right?

QPR should be investigated as well.... just saying

 

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Italian own goal - receive hundreds of thousands of euros
Columbian own goal - murdered outside nightclub

 

[jstewismybastardson]

QPR should be investigated as well.... just saying

i think it was the Guardian that looked at betting trends for the Man City game and there was nothing irregular as far as betting patterns

dont get me wrong ... QPR folded ... i just dont think it was for money or anything ... once the word came that they were staying in the epl, the effort level went bye bye

its usually the seemingly meaningless games that have no attention on them which should be looked at

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Declan Hill on team1040 in a couple of hours

 

[mattola]

i think it was the Guardian that looked at betting trends for the Man City game and there was nothing irregular as far as betting patterns

dont get me wrong ... QPR folded ... i just dont think it was for money or anything ... once the word came that they were staying in the epl, the effort level went bye bye

its usually the seemingly meaningless games that have no attention on them which should be looked at

I'm just being bitter

 

[puckhead]

Sweden Denmark in the Euro a few years ago comes to mind as well.
they needed exactly a 2-2 tie to both move on (and knocked Italy out).
boom, 2 each early on, they they basically payed pass at center field for 70 minutes

 

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jstew wasn't happy that day...

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Sweden Denmark in the Euro a few years ago comes to mind as well.
they needed exactly a 2-2 tie to both move on (and knocked Italy out).
boom, 2 each early on, they they basically payed pass at center field for 70 minutes

nope swedens tieing goal came with 2 minutes left

AND there were irregular betting patterns

BUT it could have been because everone and their dog was saying pre game that they would both play for a tie to advance

jstew wasn't happy that day...

true!

 

[jstewismybastardson]

match fixing scandal in Italy means you should put money on Italy says gambling website lol

Why scandal could galvanise Italy this summer | bet.unibet

 

[jstewismybastardson]

i think he is capable of doing this

Mario Balotelli warns racists at #Euro2012: "If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them."

 

[mattola]

i think he is capable of doing this

Mario Balotelli warns racists at #Euro2012: "If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them."

 

[jstewismybastardson]

really good read

Euro 2012: Czech Republic profile - Theodor Gebre Selassie | Michal Petrák | Football | The Guardian

Yes, Gebre Selassie stands out in Czech football. He stands out because he is an exceptionally gifted right-back whose confidence is growing with every game. He stands out with his skill, his marauding runs forward and his pinpoint crosses. And, yes, he stands out because he is black. The abuse he suffered at Sparta was of the racist kind, the fans making monkey noises.

Gebre Selassie has always let his football do the talking and, when Michal Bilek, the national team manager, called him up for a friendly tournament in Japan in June 2011, he was a revelation. The 25-year-old has continued to improve and was part of a group of younger players who helped the Czechs reach Poland and Ukraine towards the end of the qualifying campaign.

And yet there are some supporters who claim he should not be in the team. "It is strange. I feel sorry about that. I was born in the Czech Republic, I have been living here all my life," he says in perfect Czech. "I have only been to Ethiopia once, and I was about two years old then. There is a black man at the head of the most powerful country in the world and people are talking so much about me playing for the Czech Republic football team."






We'll take him in canada if the czechs dont want him

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Is Italian football more corrupt, or do they just get caught more often? | John Foot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Why is Italian football in so much trouble? One, easy answer is simply to point to Italian society as a whole. Hardly a day goes by without a corruption scandal hitting the world of politics in Italy, so why should football be any different? This is, in part, true. Let us also remember the baleful influence of a series of men without scruples who have been allowed to influence the national game: Silvio Berlusconi, Luciano Moggi, Luciano Gaucci.

But we should also take one other key factor into consideration: the power and independence of the Italian judiciary. Italian magistrates have the ability to set up phone taps and run long investigations into scandals of this kind. They are also proactive in seeking out possible wrongdoing and can order arrests and offer deals to those who confess. British police, for example, are much weaker and less interested in football-linked corruption. Illegal betting is an issue for every sport in today's globalised world, and has been for many years (in cricket above all, but also in numerous other sports including football). Italy is different, but we should not be complacent. What if the difference between Italian and British football is that people just get on with it over here, with no fear of being caught?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Viggo Mortensen Stopped by Airport Security in Washington - The Hollywood Reporter

BUENOS AIRES – Actor Viggo Mortensen was stopped by security personnel at Dulles airport last Sunday, and threatened to be thrown off the airport after he made a very excited celebration of his soccer team’s triumph during a key match in the Argentine league.

In a chronicle about the episode the actor himself wrote on the column he has on San Lorenzo’s website, he described how his passionate celebration of a key goal ended up with him being questioned by airport security and instructed to calm down.

“I screamed GOAAAAAAL with all my soul, and started jumping around the place like a frightened dear among the passengers and their suitcases,” he wrote. People can't understand why am I screaming "PIPI!" [a player’s nickname] over and over again, and whether it’s because I’ve pissed myself or maybe I got hurt someway,” he added

 

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If the Habs win the Stanley Cup, Viggo will really piss himself...

 

[jstewismybastardson]

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