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Post by ILR on Dec 22, 2004 19:32:53 GMT -5
commendable to get the fans out so quickly. Some things to report- the Spanish FA fined around £45,000 for racist chanting at the Spain v England match, and this from Joey Barton.....although I heard hisfine will be double this. sport.independent.co.uk/football/manchester_city/story.jsp?story=595612Joey Barton will be charged with gross misconduct and fined a Manchester City club record £60,000 for burning a team-mate on the eyelid with a cigar at the players' Christmas party, but the short-tempered midfielder will not be sold. However, the future does not look quite so secure for his victim, Jamie Tandy, 20, whose involvement in the incident at a bar in central Manchester began when he tried to set fire to Barton's shirt. It is not the first time that City officials have had their patience tested by Tandy, a reserve-team player, and the club are now considering moving him on in the summer. In the meantime, City have convened a disciplinary committee - which will be chaired by the director Brian Bodek and will include the manager, Kevin Keegan, - to deal with Barton, 22, and Tandy. They expect to come to an agreement on a punishment for the players before the Boxing Day fixture away at Everton. Although the maximum penalty for a player, agreed with the Professional Footballers' Association, is two weeks' wages, the club expect to fine Barton four weeks' wages by charging him with gross misconduct. For the England Under-21 midfielder, who signed a new three-year contract in the summer, that would mean a £60,000 bill. The incident took place on Sunday in the Lucid bar in Manchester's refurbished Printworks complex during the team's fancy-dress Christmas party. Barton, who was dressed as Jimmy Saville, thrusted the lighted cigar into Tandy's face when he realised that his team-mate was trying to set fire to his shirt. The two men have never been close friends and have clashed in the past on the training ground. A City source said: "Joey is a proud Scouser who wears his heart on his sleeve, while Jamie is a boisterous Mancunian. They just don't get on." Tandy was treated at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and has nothing more serious than a burnt eyelid which will not prevent him from training with the reserves today. City's players were given the day off yesterday but Barton, who scored the winner against Bolton on Saturday, is expected to train with the first team as usual today. Barton's development at City stalled last year as he failed to hold down a place in the centre of Keegan's midfield amid reports that he had, on occasions, lost his temper in training and clashed with team-mates. Despite that, the player, who was rejected by Everton as a schoolboy, has remained a popular figure at the club's training ground. Coaching staff are dismayed that, even at 22, he still seems unable to control his temper. The City spokesman Paul Tyrrell said: "I can confirm that the club is aware of an incident involving two members of our playing staff that occurred on Sunday evening. "An immediate investigation has been completed and the matter is being dealt with internally. A disciplinary process will be conducted appropriately and promptly."
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Post by ILR on Jan 5, 2005 11:57:26 GMT -5
Im putting this in the scandal thread.....because it is scandalous quite frankly. Picture it.....Man Utd 0-0 Spurs. Man U playing at home, completely taking control of the game all the way through. Cant for the life of them score. Spurs get the ball. only about 5 minutes left. Pedro Mendes sees Roy Carroll out of his goal. He hoofs it forwards. Carroll tries to catch it, it hits his chest and bounces over the line. Here is the pic: Is the goal given? Nope. It appears the linesman was running with his head down and missed the whole incident. Im shocked
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Post by Lee on Jan 5, 2005 12:07:46 GMT -5
Im putting this in the scandal thread.....because it is scandalous quite frankly. Picture it.....Man Utd 0-0 Spurs. Man U playing at home, completely taking control of the game all the way through. Cant for the life of them score. Spurs get the ball. only about 5 minutes left. Pedro Mendes sees Roy Carroll out of his goal. He hoofs it forwards. Carroll tries to catch it, it hits his chest and bounces over the line. Here is the pic: Is the goal given? Nope. It appears the linesman was running with his head down and missed the whole incident. Im shocked Since I don't care which team win the match, it's hilarious :lmao: :lmao:
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Post by ILR on Jan 5, 2005 12:12:40 GMT -5
Since I don't care which team win the match, it's hilarious lol....that is so not funny! Well, its funny because its so unbelievable. Yet again, Utd benefit from it.
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Post by Lee on Jan 5, 2005 12:14:22 GMT -5
Yet again, Utd benefit from it. Ouch! I forget your love for Utd.
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Post by ILR on Jan 5, 2005 12:21:54 GMT -5
Ouch! I forget your love for Utd. Im overflowing with love for them yes Of course that makes it worse, but even if it were Liverpool and we got the benefit of the doubt its such a ridiculous thing not to spot.
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Post by TennisHack on Jan 5, 2005 15:51:28 GMT -5
Is the goal given? Nope. It appears the linesman was running with his head down and missed the whole incident. Im shocked Now THAT'S a bad call.
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Post by TennisHack on Jan 28, 2005 18:31:49 GMT -5
Woohoo, Germany gets in on the scandalous action! ;D
Germany not ruling out players in scandal Fri Jan 28, 2005 08:08 PM GMT
FRANKFURT, Jan 28 (Reuters) - German football chiefs are not ruling out the involvement of players in the country's match-fixing scandal.
"It's not something you can exclude," German Football Association (DFB) co-president Theo Zwanziger told the Stuttgarter Nachrichten newspaper when asked if players could have been involved.
"That's something that causes me great pain."
Berlin-based referee Robert Hoyzer has admitted DFB allegations that he rigged matches after betting on them are essentially true.
Hoyzer has told prosecutors in Berlin that other referees and some players were involved in match fixing, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, a leading German daily newspaper, reported on Friday in a preview of its Saturday edition.
Hoyzer told authorities he was present when referees received payments and had heard about payments to players, the paper reported, without naming the source of its information.
He also admitted receiving 50,000 euros ($65,190) for fixing three matches, the paper said.
Investigations are concentrating on a first round Cup tie, two second division games and three others from the regional league but the country's Bundesliga chief warned that the scandal could yet draw in matches played at the highest level.
"I don't want to exclude the possibility of an attempt being made there (in the first division)," Bundesliga president Werner Hackmann said in an interview with Hamburg 1 television.
"Naturally, it's more difficult to achieve something like that when you have a refereeing observer and TV cameras there."
The 25-year-old Hoyzer said already on Thursday that more people in football were involved and said that he had profited by a five-figure sum.
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported on Friday he told prosecutors the other referees and players involved had fixed matches in the second division.
Public prosecutors are investigating alleged links with Croatian gamblers. Two arrests were made on Friday during police searches of four locations in Berlin, according to the city prosecutor.
Separately on Friday, the president of Munich-based bookmaker Oddset, Erwin Horak, said at a news conference the company planned to take Hoyzer to court after it lost around one million euros on two allegedly fixed matches.
(additional reporting by Iain Rogers)
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Post by ILR on Jan 28, 2005 18:34:32 GMT -5
and at the same time. I read about that this morning. Actually its terrible that a ref has been match fixing!! I could put something up here about Arsenal's on loan midfielder Jermaine Pennant being caught drink driving, with a possible prison sentence.
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Post by ILR on Jan 28, 2005 18:35:56 GMT -5
Wouldn't catch my Luis doing that ;D He drinks tea and thinks pints are huge he's so adorable.
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Post by TennisHack on Jan 28, 2005 18:39:45 GMT -5
Aww, he sounds adorable ;D
I though, this thread hasn't been updated for awhile, and I'm not getting my German Journal, so I'll see what's going on in the football world, since you said yourself there's always a scandal somewhere ;D Lucky for me this made the front page of Google News!
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Post by ILR on Jan 28, 2005 18:42:33 GMT -5
I could post the really not at all scandalous link of the short interview with him if you like, so you can rate his adorableness Oh yeah, if you look hard enough you'll always find something! I'll try and find something on Pennant.
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Post by TennisHack on Jan 28, 2005 18:50:17 GMT -5
Hmm, this sounds rather juicy as well:
Bellamy poised for Birmingham move Fri Jan 28, 2005 06:20 PM GMT
LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Newcastle United outcast Craig Bellamy appeared set to join Birmingham City after the Midlands club announced on Friday they had agreed a six million pound ($11.3 million) transfer fee.
Wales striker Bellamy would be discussing personal terms with Birmingham over the weekend and they hoped to finalise a deal by Monday, the club said on their official website.
Newcastle, who signed Bellamy from Coventry City for six million pounds in 2001, confirmed that they had agreed on the fee and given Birmingham permission to speak to the player.
Birmingham manager Steve Bruce told Sky Sports: "He's a quality player and quality players don't become available very often ... That's why we put in an offer for him."
Bellamy fell out with Newcastle manager Graeme Souness this week over his position in the team and the Scot said earlier on Friday the 25-year-old would never play for the Northeast club under him again.
"He cannot play for me ever again," Souness told reporters. "He cannot go on television and accuse me of telling lies."
Souness was speaking before Saturday's FA Cup fourth-round tie against Bellamy's former club Coventry City.
The build-up to the tie has been overshadowed by the pair's public feud caused by the striker's unwillingness to play out of position at Arsenal last weekend.
Newcastle said they had wanted to handle the matter internally but decided to announce a maximum possible punishment of two weeks' wages for Bellamy on Tuesday after the striker went on television to give his side of the story.
Souness, who took charge of United in September, said he believed Newcastle would come out of the fued stronger.
"This is a mighty football club with a tremendous tradition and the most important thing is that we come out of this stronger and better and we are more ready for the challenge than we ever have been in my time at the club," he said.
Birmingham, meanwhile, have the toughest FA Cup tie of the weekend away to Premier League leaders Chelsea on Sunday.
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Post by ILR on Jan 28, 2005 18:54:59 GMT -5
Souness is an idiot. He was a quality player, but I dont think he's a good manager at all. He was manager of Liverpool for a few years and many fans say that he really dragged the club down. I was only young at the time so dont really remember. Bellamy isn't much better. Its not the first time Souness has had personal fall outs with players and it certainly wont be the last. On a lighter note, here is the Garcia link ;D www.koptalk.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/400334/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1
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Post by TennisHack on Jan 28, 2005 19:02:41 GMT -5
Unfortunately Reuters took down their story about Souness and Bellamy's spat. I guess I'll have to go search the tabloids for that one.
Hehe, he is so cute. I especially liked this part:
Asked if he and his Spanish team-mates spend much time together, Garcia replied: "Yeah, we all went round to Antonio Nunez's house for the Barcelona-Real Madrid game. Because he played for Madrid and I was at Barcelona, we were all winding him up when they lost heh heh."
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Post by ILR on Jan 28, 2005 19:07:08 GMT -5
They did? Interesting. Apparently it wasjust because he faked an injury and complained about being played out of position. Honestly, Bellamy has got to be the whiniest player out there He is cute ;D Being a big tea drinker I was most pleased that he is drinking it! Yeah, that bit isfunny lol. I can almost see his little face lighting up lol.
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Post by TennisHack on Jan 28, 2005 19:08:45 GMT -5
Opinion on the German match-fixing:
COLUMN-German football still proud after tough week Fri Jan 28, 2005 11:45 AM GMT By Kevin Fylan
FRANKFURT, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Germany's match-rigging scandal was a huge embarrassment to World Cup organisers in the week that ticket sales procedures for the 2006 tournament were announced.
Franz Beckenbauer described the case as a disaster, FIFA president Sepp Blatter rebuked German officials for taking too long to notice something was amiss, and important details of how fans can get hold of World Cup tickets were lost in the din.
The revelations were damaging and the recriminations loud, but Germany's football community nevertheless had plenty to be proud of at the end of a momentous week.
Taking advantage of a blank week, the Bundesliga and the German Football Association (DFB) combined to organise a benefit match for tsunami relief that raised $6 million.
Inevitably, it was the Robert Hoyzer story that made the bigger headlines inside and outside Germany.
"For the World Cup this is naturally a disaster," said Beckenbauer, the president of the World Cup organising committee. "This will be reported around the world."
The DFB broke news of the scandal on Saturday night, informing reporters that the 25-year-old Hoyzer had resigned after being confronted with suspicions that he had rigged Hamburg SV's Cup defeat by a regional league side last August.
The investigation was later widened to take in five more games, while Hoyzer denied any involvement.
Hoyzer changed his story on Friday afternoon, a week after his resignation, and said the DFB's version of events was essentially true.
BLATTER REBUKE
FIFA expressed their confidence that the DFB would conduct a full investigation but Blatter hit out at the organisation.
"FIFA is deeply concerned ... that the referee's actions went undetected for so long," the Swiss said in a statement.
Blatter was unhappy that five months had passed between the Hamburg v Paderborn Cup match in August last year and the start of the investigation last week.
But it is hard to see how the DFB could have acted any more quickly once they received news that something was up.
Four referees provided the original tip to the DFB on Wednesday last week and within two days Hoyzer had resigned.
The DFB made a clear statement to the media 24 hours later -- they did not leak the story to one friendly outlet, as might have happened in other countries -- and continued to provide information as the investigation progressed.
They have also passed on the information at their disposal to public prosecutors in Berlin and, with a connection to a Berlin bar frequented by Croatian gamblers now being investigated, the case will be largely out of their hands.
TICKETING TROUBLES
DFB officials, who combine their domestic duties with World Cup organising roles, are expecting more trouble over ticket sales for next year's tournament.
Only just over a third of the 2.93 million match tickets will go on public sale to fans and organisers are braced for a kicking from German fans who miss out.
"People here will have to understand that the World Cup is not a German competition, it's international," Beckenbauer said. "We can't deny tickets to people who want to come from other countries. That would not be hospitable.
"But we know we're going to have some disappointed people."
Beckenbauer and his colleagues from the DFB were on the defensive for much of the week, as newspapers raised concerns not only about the expected shortages but also privacy issues and the difficulties fans will face in changing names on the personalised tickets.
But buffeted as they were over the Hoyzer scandal and ticketing matters, the German football establishment joined forces on Tuesday night as 52,000 fans turned up to see Germany draw 2-2 with a Bundesliga Allstar side in Gelsenkirchen.
"German football is always ready to stand up and help, whenever it is needed," said DFB co-president Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, who announced that the first 1.5 million euros ($1.96 million) of the money raised would go to rebuild a hospital in Indonesia.
Hoyzer hogged the headlines, but Germany's football community did something this week that will make a difference to a lot of people's lives. The clubs, the players, the authorities and the fans can all be proud of that.
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Post by TennisHack on Jan 28, 2005 19:10:06 GMT -5
They did? Interesting. Apparently it wasjust because he faked an injury and complained about being played out of position. Honestly, Bellamy has got to be the whiniest player out there LMAO @ whiniest player ever I saw that, but I think the article that is no longer there had both their statements to the media about each other, instead of just alluding to it. Tea is no longer popular? A pity.
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Post by ILR on Jan 28, 2005 19:10:25 GMT -5
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Post by ILR on Jan 28, 2005 19:12:19 GMT -5
LMAO @ whiniest player ever I saw that, but I think the article that is no longer there had both their statements to the media about each other, instead of just alluding to it. Tea is no longer popular? A pity. Im not joking! He really is Always had something to say, something to complain about. Thats why I thought he would get on with Souness! Im thinking its not popular in Spain But it seems he likes it! And thats all good with me lol.
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Post by TennisHack on Jan 28, 2005 19:47:58 GMT -5
Souness Blasts "Disruptive" Bellamy in ProgrammeBy Damian Spellman, PA Sport sport.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4062222Newcastle boss Graeme Souness has accused striker Craig Bellamy of being a troublemaker from the moment he walked through the door. In an explosive television appearance in the wake of his omission from the squad for last weekend’s trip to Arsenal, Bellamy claimed his manager had lied. But Souness responded angrily in his programme notes for today’s FA Cup fourth round clash with Coventry at St James’ Park. He wrote: “Craig Bellamy has been a disruptive influence from the minute I walked into this football club with his attitude to the coaching staff, to me and to his team-mates. “On the Friday before the Arsenal game I met the press at St James’ Park and when I later arrived at the training ground Craig was taking off his boots in the boot room. “I asked him ’What’s the problem?’, and he told me his hamstring was tight. I asked if he had tugged it and he said no, it was just tight. “I then went on to the training ground, where Dean Saunders said to me: ’You will never believe what he’s just done’. “Dean said Craig had told the players prior to coming out on to the training ground that he was going to feign an injury, and that is exactly what he has done. “From that moment, I had an almighty problem. When we finished training, I said in front of the players: ’Craig, you and I have got to go and see the chairman.’ “I saw Derek Wright, the physio, and Derek said he had examined Craig and could find nothing wrong with him. “By 1pm, we were in the chairman’s office at the ground. The first thing the chairman asked was ’Craig, did you feign injury this morning?’, and Craig said ’yes’ to that. “At that point, I still had a conciliatory note, so I asked what had brought things on, and he said it was all the speculation about bringing new players in and him being used as a make-weight in a transfer. Souness continued: “I reassured him that he had not been offered in any deal and I wanted him here, but on my terms – my terms being that he was fully committed and not being disruptive about the place. “The meeting lasted a maximum of 15 minutes and I then told him to go to his car immediately and phone every single one of his team-mates and apologise, to try to keep a lid on it, so that we didn’t end up with the kind of headlines we didn’t want. He said he would do that. “The following morning when we came into training, I asked several players if Craig had phoned up, and he hadn’t done so. “So on that Saturday morning before we played Arsenal, we were confronted with a situation that we never wanted, and now in the eyes of the rest of the players, I was in an impossible situation. “The players knew he had feigned an injury, the players knew that I had asked him to apologise and he hadn’t apologised. Where do I go at that point? And so I decided not to include him in the team or on the bench at Arsenal.” Souness insisted that his suggestion that Bellamy was injured as rumours started to circulate was an attempt to protect the player, but the situation rapidly got out of hand. “All managers are contracted to do Sky TV before a match and I already knew by the questions I was being asked at the stadium at 2.30pm that some journalists and some of the TV people knew Craig Bellamy wasn’t injured and that something was going on,” he said. “I said before going on Sky that I wouldn’t speak about Craig Bellamy, but even at this time, I was trying to keep a lid on it. “But I was asked a question and the important thing here was that I said Craig had said he had a tight hamstring. “Craig later turned this statement around to call me a liar when all I was doing was for the benefit of him and Newcastle. “After the Arsenal match when I was going to speak to the press, I was asked to hang on because Craig was on TV. “It turned out that he had heard what I had said on the team bus radio and got off the bus and gone back into the stadium to go on TV and say what he did. Then he went on TV again this week.” Bellamy’s disquiet centred on Souness’ decision to play him in a midfield role for much of his time at the club to date, although the manager remains unrepentant. The Scot added: “It is not a good situation and he has been disciplined, but I believe it is important to point out that at no time has Craig been asked to play as any type of winger because I feel that in the modern game there are no wingers – they are wide working players. “He has been asked (a) to do a job for the cause and (b) to play as one of the three strikers.” Earlier, Souness has admitted a showdown between he and the striker had been looming for some time. “It’s cumulative, it’s not just last weekend’s events,” he said.
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Post by ILR on Jan 28, 2005 19:51:38 GMT -5
looks like things were boiling along very nicely Or not, if you're a Newcastle fan. The thing is, Bellamy has such a bad attitude, yet he can play really well. If you're a pro, and being played out of position you dont moan about it, you just do it if you have to. Like Luis ;D He's already played in 4 different positions. Ok, I wont mention him again But he's right, Bellamy is a trouble maker. He's been accused of allsorts in the past.
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Post by TennisHack on Jan 28, 2005 20:03:53 GMT -5
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Post by TennisHack on Jan 28, 2005 20:05:20 GMT -5
looks like things were boiling along very nicely Or not, if you're a Newcastle fan. The thing is, Bellamy has such a bad attitude, yet he can play really well. If you're a pro, and being played out of position you dont moan about it, you just do it if you have to. Like Luis ;D He's already played in 4 different positions. Ok, I wont mention him again But he's right, Bellamy is a trouble maker. He's been accused of allsorts in the past. The article I just posted mentions that, and how Bellamy thinks he's entitled to play centre-forward because its his favorite. No 'i' in 'team', eh? Not according to him!
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Post by ILR on Jan 28, 2005 20:08:35 GMT -5
The article I just posted mentions that, and how Bellamy thinks he's entitled to play centre-forward because its his favorite. No 'i' in 'team', eh? Not according to him! Souness doesn't half make his spats public though The last one was with Andy Cole. They had a major fall out and I think it was to do with Cole put a bad tackle in on Souness in training. Yep, he joined in Or that was one of the reasons anyway. So Cole went off to Fulham! And thats what I mean about Bellamy and his attitude. You don't fake an injury because you're being played out of position.
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Post by TennisHack on Feb 1, 2005 22:24:43 GMT -5
Not necessarily scandalous, but I definitely found this surprising. Anybody else have any news on this? Sports Illustrated explains seven or eight professional soccer/football teams, including highly regarded Manchester United and FC Porto, are interested in "a phenomenon, probably the best player to come out of Brazil" : Jean Carlos Chera, nine years old and 4' 6". A video (additional source) [wmv format, 8MB] demonstrates Jean's abilities. www.metafilter.com/mefi/39065
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Post by ILR on Feb 2, 2005 13:48:04 GMT -5
4'6?? He's smaller than Garcia ;D *vows to stop mentioning him*
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Post by TennisHack on Feb 5, 2005 14:49:56 GMT -5
The German match-fixing scandal hits the top level...
Jansen denies match-fixing, condemns witch-hunt Fri Feb 4, 2005 12:26 PM GMT
PASSAU, Germany, Feb 4 (Reuters) - German referee Juergen Jansen denied on Friday any involvement in the country's match-fixing scandal and said a witch-hunt was making life intolerable for his family.
"My children can't go to school, they're being spat on and chased around," the 44-year-old Jansen said. "It's like a witch-hunt in the middle-ages."
Jansen, the only Bundesliga referee mentioned in connection with the case, is under suspicion of fixing two matches, including the Bundesliga clash between FC Kaiserslautern and FC Freiburg in November last year.
"I have never, ever tried to influence a match," Jansen said at a news conference. "I have never been asked to influence a match. I have never done it in my life."
The suspicions against Jansen arose after he was mentioned by Robert Hoyzer, the referee who has admitted fixing matches, in his statements to Berlin prosecutors.
News that the German Football Association (DFB) and prosecutors are investigating a first division match has added to the embarrassment for German soccer as the country prepares to host the 2006 World Cup.
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Post by TennisHack on Feb 5, 2005 14:50:43 GMT -5
Homes searched in German match-fixing probe Wed Feb 2, 2005 11:53 AM GMT BERLIN, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Prosecutors investigating Germany's match-fixing scandal have ordered the home of first division referee Juergen Jansen to be searched, a source close to the investigation said on Wednesday.
A statement from the prosecutors' office in Berlin said a number of searches were conducted across Germany on Wednesday morning and that more details would be released later.
Jansen was pulled from Sunday's Bundesliga match between Werder Bremen and Hansa Rostock. He has denied any involvement in the match-fixing affair and the DFB said on Sunday that he was not under suspicion.
A report in the online version of Der Spiegel said authorities also searched the homes of two other current and former match officials.
According to media reports, all three are among those named by former referee Robert Hoyzer, whose admission last month that he had rigged matches set off Germany's biggest sporting scandal in more than 30 years.
The scandal was ignited when Hoyzer's role in second division Hamburg SV's 4-2 defeat by regional side SC Paderborn came under suspicion.
Three men connected with a Berlin bar frequented by Croatian gamblers have been arrested and prosecutors are looking into other games and the possible involvement of other referees and players.
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Post by TennisHack on Feb 5, 2005 14:56:52 GMT -5
German clubs appeal 13 game results 2/5/2005
BERLIN (AP) - Clubs have appealed the outcome of 13 games they believe were rigged in Germany's match-fixing scandal, the country's soccer federation said Saturday.
The appeals exceed the 10 games Berlin prosecutors investigating the case have named as being suspected of manipulation after police raided 19 homes across the nation on Wednesday.
Altogether 25 people, including 14 players and four referees, are suspected in the case where game results were fixed for betting profits.
Just one is believed to be a Bundesliga match, while the rest were second and third division games, along with German Cup contests.
The scandal has damaged Germany's reputation just 16 months before it hosts soccer's showcase event, the World Cup.
A referee claimed his innocence Saturday, saying he rejected a bribe from Robert Hoyzer, the referee who confessed to successfully manipulating four of seven matches he tried to fix for a Croatian betting ring.
''When I got the concrete offer from Hoyzer, I turned to my referee colleagues,'' Felix Zwayer told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. ''Let me emphasize again, that I immediately and vehemently turned down the offer.''
The German Soccer Federation (DFB) praised Zwayer on Friday for helping further the investigation, but said he remains under suspicion.
The match-fixing scandal broke last month when four referees blew the whistle on Hoyzer, telling the DFB they were suspicious of their colleague.
The 25-year-old has admitted to accepting worth more than 50,000 euros ($80,045 Cdn) to fix games.
On Friday, the DFB called the four matches fixed by Hoyzer ''proven'', adding that 10 players had admitted involvement after the organization examined police documents for the first time.
''It's a big step forward. We can see light at the end of the tunnel even if we're a long way from standing in sunshine,'' DFB co-president Theo Zwanziger said.
Bookmakers had complained for months about skyrocketing bets on some matches, with a few claiming to see similar patterns in other parts of Europe.
In Belgium, a man was arrested Friday on bribery charges as part of an investigation into whether last year's relegation battle between FC Antwerp and Sint Truiden in Belgian soccer's first division was fixed.
The 13 German matches that clubs have protested include six second-division games, three from the third division and three from the German Cup.
One first-division match is under appeal, SC Freiburg's 3-0 loss to Kaiserslautern. Veteran Bundesliga referee Juergen Jansen protested his innocence Friday, saying he wasn't guilty of failing to call two flagrant fouls that led to goals in that game.
DFB officials plan to announce next week whether matches will be replayed.
The German Cup matches - with two first-division teams involved - will present a logistical problem for the DFB. All three were first and second-round pairings, and the competition has advanced into the fourth round.
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