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Is there a question to be asked about the honesty of the CL?

gosplan · 2011-04-28 09:31:37

... vrs Barcelona Motta's red for Inter last year and Pepe's red last night - both fairly soft. Chelsea's many denied penalties two years ago and RVP's second yellow this year - both close to inexplicable. I fully expect pics of tin foil hats posted in response to this but I'd rather someone posted a booking similar to Van…

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#92 30-04-2011 12:17AM

Paully D

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There's definitely match fixing going on in football at obscure levels, this is evidenced by the amount of investigations opened in recent months. It has been proved at the highest level in Italy, amongst other countries. Unfortunately it has been proven to be rife in a lot of sports now.

Is there a question about the honesty of the Champions League? People will say ''oh it wouldn't happen at that level'' but as far as I'm concerned it wouldn't surprise me at all.

With regards to Barcelona, they're one of the biggest if not the biggest club in the world at the minute due to their recent success, referee's get intimidated and each and every one of their players know it too. They dive, cheat, etc but they do also have some of the best players in football. You could say every team does it but they're the worst offenders IMO.

Football these days with the money, cheating, diving, stealing etc, it's all a load of ****e IMO. I'm falling further and further out of love with the game I grew up loving.

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