Match Fixing - Did it affect us?

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

There are lots of matches that could be fixed but if that one was, the referee did an awful job. You can fix games and make it look a lot fairer than that. The easiest way is to give a lot of yellows out early. To the team you want to win, you give a couple out to attacking players, to the team you want to lose, you give it to defending players or for the team you want to win, you give them to minor players and the team you want to lose, you give them to major players. Then, later in the game, you give one key player a second yellow and he's off. You can also call a lot of unfair calls that nobody really questions like that shoving in the box on corners, Ovrebo's game was so obviously terrible, that everyone was talking about it. and we're all still justifiably mad over it. It could have been fixed, but it also could have been another game we don't know about.

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

There are lots of matches that could be fixed but if that one was, the referee did an awful job. You can fix games and make it look a lot fairer than that. The easiest way is to give a lot of yellows out early. To the team you want to win, you give a couple out to attacking players, to the team you want to lose, you give it to defending players or for the team you want to win, you give them to minor players and the team you want to lose, you give them to major players. Then, later in the game, you give one key player a second yellow and he's off. You can also call a lot of unfair calls that nobody really questions like that shoving in the box on corners, Ovrebo's game was so obviously terrible, that everyone was talking about it. and we're all still justifiably mad over it. It could have been fixed, but it also could have been another game we don't know about.

You seem to know what you're talking about...A bit too much....You been fixing matches TC?

[Yeboii 1,844]

I had a huge feeling our match vs Man U that Clatterburg was reffing was fixed.

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

I had a huge feeling our match vs Man U that Clatterburg was reffing was fixed.

Or the one with Webb...

[Strike 7,474]

i think the system focusses on getting first throw-in, first free-kick etc because fixing results is a lot tougher in football. Cricket has had a lot of match-fixing in the past and that's because a single person can affect the result of a game. Azharuddin, Cronje anyone? But I dont think this has anything to do with Ovrebo. I would love for this to be about Ovrebo though!

[Ankit 3,176]

i think the system focusses on getting first throw-in, first free-kick etc because fixing results is a lot tougher in football. Cricket has had a lot of match-fixing in the past and that's because a single person can affect the result of a game. Azharuddin, Cronje anyone? But I dont think this has anything to do with Ovrebo. I would love for this to be about Ovrebo though!

Remember the 2002 world cup in korea? How the refs in front of the whole wide world made a mockery of FIFA against Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany?

[Jase 43,479]

Well, I just hope it has nothing to do with us. We have got enough of problems to contend with already. Don't need to add more into the list.

[francozola 2,040]

Doubt it's the barca game tbh.

Wasn't there a game last season, I think in the final round of the group stages, where a team had to win by like 5 goals to stand any chance of qualifying for the knock-out rounds and they smashed some rubbish team by 6 or something like that? Can't remember who was involved but it felt dodgy to me at the time. Or is that not the kind of fixing they're taking about?

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

The two most notable potential fixes from my memory would be Chelsea Barca 09 and Lyon Zagreb last season.

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Zagreb-Lyon?

Bes-Liver?

[Jase 43,479]

Didn't Europol said the games took place in England? If that is the case, then it can't be Dinamo Zagreb v Lyon. And apparently, the match fixing issue happened in one of the preliminary rounds played in England.

[francozola 2,040]

Didn't Europol said the games took place in England? If that is the case, then it can't be Dinamo Zagreb v Lyon. And apparently, the match fixing issue happened in one of the preliminary rounds played in England.

Oh yeah, forgot about that. But I won't be surprised if that lyon match was still found to be fixed anyway.

Preliminary is referring to the qualifying rounds then?