[CENTRAAL] Corruptieschandaal in Engeland?

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Op maandag 16 juli 2007 16:48 schreef EnactedChaos het volgende:
Hopen dat er weer een paar grote clubs op hun bek gaan

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Op maandag 16 juli 2007 16:50 schreef TC03 het volgende:
Hoop dat Liverpool er ook bij zit. Zit je dan met Torres van ¤35 miljoen... In de championship. [afbeelding]

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Op maandag 16 juli 2007 16:50 schreef TC03 het volgende:
Hoop dat Liverpool er ook bij zit. Zit je dan met Torres van ¤35 miljoen... In de championship. [afbeelding]

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Op maandag 16 juli 2007 16:52 schreef VoreG het volgende:

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Zolang ze het geld van Babel maar hebben overgemaakt .

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Op maandag 16 juli 2007 17:01 schreef RayMania het volgende:
In het artikel staat 'drie huiszoekingen uit bij voetbalclubs in Londen'.

En dat zijn clubs uit Londen. Watford ontbreekt trouwens nog.

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Op maandag 16 juli 2007 17:02 schreef VoreG het volgende:

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Watford is toch een stad buiten londen?

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Op maandag 16 juli 2007 16:58 schreef VoreG het volgende:
Arsenal
Charlton Athletic
Chelsea
Fulham
Tottenham Hotspur
West Ham United
Crystal Palace
Queens Park Rangers
Millwall

Wie van de 9

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Op maandag 16 juli 2007 17:01 schreef Risdinho het volgende:
Die Sam Allardyce is gewoon een corrupte vent. Ik weet niet of jullie ooit de documentaire Undercover: Football's Dirty Secrets hebben gezien, maar daarin kwam toch ook wel erg duidelijk aan het licht dat die man geen schoon geweten heeft, destijds bij Bolton. Het verbaast me dan ook niets dat Newcastle nu de klos is.

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Op maandag 16 juli 2007 17:20 schreef tong80 het volgende:
Arjan Robben blijkt voor iedere schwalbe 100.000 euro te krijgen van Man. U.

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Op maandag 16 juli 2007 17:17 schreef hello_moto1992 het volgende:

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Harry Redknap kwam ook voor in die docu. Had hij toen nog iets verkeerd gedaan?

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Op maandag 16 juli 2007 16:13 schreef neus80 het volgende:
spannend
tvp

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Newcastle United, Portsmouth and Rangers are the three clubs involved in the raids.

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Op maandag 16 juli 2007 19:56 schreef mcyodogg het volgende:
Ja hee. In de wedstrijd tegen Newcastle waar Chelsea definitief aansluiiting kon krijgen met Manchester United, werd een overduidelijke penalty niet gegeven

Was ook de wedstrijd waar Mourinho sprak over 'the new football rules', dat er geen penalties aan Chelsea gegeven worden.

Zegt verder nog niet alles, maar zou het wel extra zuur maken.

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Op dinsdag 17 juli 2007 00:29 schreef Grimm het volgende:

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Godskolere je kon wel een ajacied zijn man.

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Op maandag 16 juli 2007 18:47 schreef DatMeenJeNiet het volgende:
Glasgow Rangers en Portsmouth zijn de andere twee.

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Hearts-preses: 'Celtic en Rangers zijn corrupt'

15/2/2007 15:57

Vladimir Romanov heeft weer eens uitgehaald naar de klassieke grootmachten in het Schotse voetbal. Volgens de Litouwse voorzitter van Heart of Midlothian manipuleren de clubs en kopen ze spelers en scheidsrechters om.
In het Russische blad Mirovoy Futbol haalt Romanov aan dat hij op het veld niet onder de indruk is van The Old Firm. 'Zelfs Kaunas kan ze op het veld hebben. Maar Rangers en Celtic maken van voetbal showbusiness met hun onderlinge afspraken', betoogde Romanov.

'Ze kopen spelers en scheidsrechters om. Tegen slechtere ploegen maakt dat niet uit, dan is het verschil sowieso groot. Maar als de tegenstander van hetzelfde niveau is, dan kunnen de arbiters veel invloed hebben op de uitslag.'

Volgens Romanov lopen er ook bij Hearts spelers rond die door Celtic en Rangers worden betaald. Daarmee verklaart hij de vijf nederlagen die zijn club vorig seizoen in vier weken leed onder coach Eduard Malofejev. 'Als je vijf spelers in dienst van Celtic en Rangers in je ploeg hebt, wat verwacht je dan?'

Celtic-voorzitter Brian Quinn dreigt met stappen tegen Romanov. 'Het is absurd en volkomen belachelijk. Als hij dit heeft gezegd, dan win ik vandaag nog juridisch advies in', kondigde Quinn aan tegenover de BBC.

Het is niet voor het eerst dat Romanov rept van corruptie in het Schotse voetbal. Er loopt nog een zaak van hem tegen de Schotse voetbalbond (SFA) waarin hij zijn boete aanvecht voor het beschuldigen van scheidsrechters van partijdigheid.

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Op dinsdag 17 juli 2007 17:21 schreef MaxPower het volgende:
Volgens mij gaat het helemaal niet om scheidsrechters omkopen maar om witwassen van geld via transfers ofzo.

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Op dinsdag 17 juli 2007 17:46 schreef De_Ananas het volgende:

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Gek met al die overnames van Russen en dergelijke mafia mensen

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Op dinsdag 17 juli 2007 18:21 schreef mcyodogg het volgende:

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Newcastle is van een Engels man, Rangers van een Schot. Alleen Portsmouth is in handen van een Rus, maar wat z'n afkomst ermee te maken heeft, snap ik niet zo.

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Op woensdag 28 november 2007 16:31 schreef M0NTANA het volgende:

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Redknapp held in football inquiry

Five men have been arrested in connection with alleged corruption in football, police have said.
City of London Police said the men - aged 69, 60, 55, 48 and 30 - were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud and false accounting.

Portsmouth football club said manager Harry Redknapp and chief executive Peter Storrie were among those held.

The arrests were part of the force's ongoing investigation into corruption within the game, a spokeswoman said.

Two searches are still under way and 10 others have been concluded at locations across the country.

Detectives from the economic crime unit of the City of London Police are investigating allegations of corruption within football and its impact on owners and shareholders.

In July, officers raided Newcastle United, Portsmouth and Rangers football clubs as part of the inquiry.

A spokesman for Portsmouth said on Wednesday that the club's chief executive and manager had "been asked to help police with their inquiries concerning a matter dating back to 2003".

"This was prior to the new owner taking control of the club at the beginning of 2006," he said.

"The club is fully supportive of Peter and Harry who are co-operating fully with City of London Police in this ongoing inquiry.

"Both are playing major roles in the continued success of Portsmouth Football Club."

Seven arrests

Last year, the Premier League asked former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens and his company, Quest, to carry out a separate inquiry into several hundred player transfer deals.

In June, Lord Stevens presented his final report, which highlighted concerns over 17 transfers and five Premier League clubs.

City of London Police have distanced their investigation from Lord Stevens' inquiry.

The latest arrests bring the total number of people detained in connection with the investigation to seven.

In September, a 28-year-old man was arrested in London and in May, a 61-year-old man was arrested in Manchester on suspicion of money laundering.

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Club raided in corruption probe

Police investigating corruption within professional football have raided a Premier League club. Officers swooped at Birmingham City FC earlier in an "ongoing investigation into football corruption", City of London Police said.

A spokeswoman said it was not linked to the Lord Stevens inquiry into transfers and illegal payments to agents. The club said the raid related to a police inquiry into "an unconnected third party or third parties".

It said no-one connected with the club had been questioned or arrested.

Lord Stevens published his report last year in which he highlighted concerns about 17 transfer deals involving Premier League clubs. His inquiry concentrated mainly on illicit payments to agents.

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FA will investigate bribe claims

The Football Association is to investigate allegations that a former Premier League footballer accepted a £50,000 bribe to help throw a game. The player got himself sent off and persuaded three team-mates to get booked in a game "in Britain" in the last two years, says The Independent. In exchange, a bookmaker allegedly agreed to write off a £50,000 debt the player had racked up.

"We will be making inquiries about the story," an FA spokesman told BBC Sport. Players are prohibited from betting on matches or competitions in which they are involved under FA rules.

"First we need to find out if the match was inside our jurisdiction - the story says it was in Britain, but we don't know if it was in England," the FA spokesman added.

The case was disclosed privately by a source at a seminar on gambling at the Sporting Chance Clinic in Hampshire this week. The player in question has been treated at Sporting Chance, which is supported financially by the FA and Professional Footballers Association.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said any player proven to have accepted a bribe to throw a game should be banned for life.

"I believe that the most important thing is that our game is clean," Wenger said. "It is surprising news and very bad news. I am convinced that if it is proven they should be banned for life. If one player has done that you have 99.9% of players who have never done it. But you have to convict the one player who has done that. It's not down to human nature. Everyone has to stand up for their own acts and take responsibility for what he is doing."

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Op vrijdag 4 april 2008 17:34 schreef BliksemSchigt het volgende:

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FA launches investigation into £50,000 thrown match

By Nick Harris
Saturday, 5 April 2008

The Football Association has opened an investigation into The Independent's report yesterday that a footballer with a serious gambling problem has admitted to getting sent off deliberately after colluding with a bookmaker. The player owed the bookmaker £50,000, a source familiar with the situation told The Independent, and the bookie wrote off the debt when the player collected his card, as arranged, having profited from gambling on it.

The player's chronic gambling addiction – the root cause of his action – led him to treatment at the Sporting Chance clinic in Hampshire. The clinic's chief executive, Peter Kay, declined to comment on specifics of the case but corroborated the story.

As part of the investigation, which may involve the FA asking gambling companies to review suspicious betting patterns over the last few years, the FA has asked Kay and The Independent to pass on the name of the player and the bookmaker to assess whether disciplinary action should be taken.

A meeting will be scheduled with Kay, but he is unlikely to provide information that would breach the confidentiality of a player referred for treatment for a serious addiction. It is understood, however, that he has already made the FA aware that the case reported by The Independent was not a one-off. Kay has already confirmed to this newspaper that footballers have gambled or colluded to gamble on being booked – or on other incidents in matches – "to my knowledge on several occasions".

With problem gambling an "epidemic" in football, according to Kay, the FA is considering how best to improve its own methods of preventing the problem. But an FA spokesman conceded: "I have to be honest and say that there is no specific preventative education in place in respect to gambling provided by the FA at the moment.

"We do lots of work with players, especially young players, on alcohol and drugs awareness. This is a key part of their education as players. There is a lot of general education about lifestyle.

"We also hold seminars each season about betting, but this deals essentially with the rules. Gambling is something we have been looking at, and are planning to do further work in line with what we do with alcohol and drugs."

A lot of education to young players which touches on problem gambling but is not necessarily delivered by specialist agencies, is provided and funded by the Professional Footballers' Association.

The PFA's chief executive, Gordon Taylor, described the situation as "beyond belief." He added: "We support the [Sporting Chance] clinic and their attempts to get players on track and it is disappointing that something like this should emanate from them." Taylor said he believed that stories such as the player taking a bribe "can get over-elaborated for effect" at a gambling seminar, which is where The Independent sourced its story.

In fact, that case was among a number of gambling-related incidents disclosed privately to The Independent, more than once – but not in open session – at a seminar at Sporting Chance this week. Those present included players and former players wanting to highlight the dangers of gambling, and its threat to the integrity of the game.

Several spoke in open session about having their lives wrecked by addiction, while the seminar also heard public testimony from respected experts about a large-scale gambling culture in football.

The FA defended its rules on betting, which were softened a few years ago to allow players to bet on football matches they are not involved in and cannot affect. Previously there had been a blanket ban.

An FA spokesman said: "We have clear rules on betting and work with through the clubs and PFA to ensure that these rules are understood by all participants in the game. We remain vigilant."

Kay told The Independent yesterday that football needs to be more vigilant, and provide more education to all players at all levels. Of gambling-related corruption, he said: "Yes, it's happened and probably will happen again, but really that only makes our work and the responsibility of football in general more important. For too long there has been an ambivalent attitude which is changing, and we are listened to now by the authorities."