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 Posted - 09/26/2009 : 08:52:32 AM
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Uefa investigating 40 cases of Champions League and UEFA Cup match-fixing
Football found itself under the harshest public scrutiny again last night as Uefa, the sport’s European governing body, announced an investigation into alleged match-fixing in its competitions over the past four years.
Forty fixtures in the Champions League and Uefa Cup, now the Europa League, are being looked into. Uefa was alerted by “suspicious betting patterns”. Peter Limacher, head of disciplinary services at Uefa, said: “In the cases we have seen, it’s really the deliberate planned fix of the games, the whole games. It might take some time [to convict] but, in cases where we can work together with the police, that might be possible.”
The attempted “rigging” of matches has increased over the years, not because of too little money in the game but because there is too much. As a result, it is often referees, rather than players, that are bribed. Lennart Johansson, the former president of Uefa, once said: “It is very difficult for referees to officiate a match between 22 millionaires. If someone offers him 30,000 Swiss francs and a fur coat for his wife, the temptation to take it is huge.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article6850176.ece
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Uefa investigating 40 cases of Champions League
