http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/sports/soccer/24fix.html?_r=1&th&emc=thPARIS — After F.C. Thun, a second-tier professional soccer club in Switzerland, was routed by 5-1 in April by a rival, Yverdon, officials were scratching their heads trying to figure out why their team had lost so badly.
Giuseppe Postiglione, owner of Potenza S.C., was arrested on Monday in Italy.
The poor showing was particularly surprising for a team that in 2005 had advanced deep into the Champions League, a competition for the elite teams of Europe.
“Many players didn’t perform like we know them,” Markus Stahli, the president of F.C. Thun, said in a telephone interview Monday.
A possible reason has emerged: the game may have been rigged.
As details trickle out in a match-fixing scandal described as the biggest in European soccer history, the Thun-Yverdon game is one of about 200 under investigation in Switzerland and eight other countries for possible manipulation linked to an international betting ring.
Couldn’t be that underperforming teams in other leagues are involved in similar?
What price are Hahahearts for the drop?
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24-11-2009 08:47 AM #1@hibs.net private member
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Game-Fixing Scandal Makes Many Poor Performances Suspect
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Na, Hearts are genuinely just pish!
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Is there any british games under investigation?
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vLad-brokes odds?
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Yes the 0-7 game against Hearts. Hibs were deffo taking it easy. That or the score board could not cope with two digits. Originally Posted by TamHibs
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haha how i would have loved to have been there lol
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Maybe this is the new plan? Originally Posted by Jack
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Couldn’t be that underperforming teams in other leagues are involved in similar?
What price are Hahahearts for the drop?
The money from the Gordon transfer has been put on yams to go down...
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They might be suspicious of a man with a dodgy Eastern European accent and a suitcase full of money asking for a price. Originally Posted by 'Mon the Hibs
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