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1980 Italian football scandal ("Totonero"): In May 1980, the largest match fixing scandal in the history of Italian football was uncovered by Italian Guardia di Finanza, after the spalling of two Roman shopkeepers, Alvaro Trinca and Massimo Cruciani, who declared that some Italian football players sold the football-matches for money ...
Six people were arrested by the NCA in December 2013 as the result of an investigation into match fixing by the Sun on Sunday. [2] Sam Sodje, a former player for Reading and Portsmouth, allegedly claimed that he could arrange for footballers in the Football League Championship to get themselves booked in exchange for cash payments. [2]
The 2009 European football betting scandal was considered to be the biggest affair in European football since the 2005 football scandal of referee Robert Hoyzer and the Bundesliga scandal in the 1970/71 season when numerous players, coaches and officials were involved in game shifts.
In 2023, a major match-fixing scandal broke in Brazilian football. Several players from Brazil's top leagues were accused of deliberately earning yellow cards, or penalties, in exchange for money ...
Calciopoli (Italian: [kalˈtʃɔːpoli]) was a sports scandal in Italy's top professional association football league Serie A and to a lesser extent Serie B. [nb 1] Involving various clubs and numerous executives, both from the same clubs and from the main Italian football bodies (Italian Referee Association (AIA) [it; es], FIGC, and LNP), as well as some referees and referee assistants, the ...
In the complaints, he also accused football referees of receiving agreed bribes. However, such accusations were not presented to the competent bodies. The businessman also accused Fortaleza , Palmeiras and São Paulo , without presenting evidence, [ 7 ] of colluding to harm Botafogo. [ 8 ]
The scandal was dramatised in 1997 in a BBC film The Fix, directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Jason Isaacs as Tony Kay, Christopher Fulford as Jimmy Gauld and Steve Coogan as Sunday People journalist Michael Gabbert, whose investigative work led to the uncovering of the scandal.
Multiple posts being shared on Facebook claims the National Football League (NFL) has fired three referees for taking part in large-scale bribery scandals. Verdict: False There is no proof that ...