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	Match fixing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Match fixing or game fixing in organized sports occurs when a match is played to a completely or partially pre-determined result.
		Match fixing is often motivated by agreements with gamblers.
		In addition to the match fixing that is committed by players, coaches and/or team officials, it is not unheard of to have results manipulated by corrupt referees.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Match_fixing (2346 words)

	Betting, match-fixing charges 'unjustified'
		Ajay Jadeja: Fixing a match requires a great amount of homogeneity which is not to be found in a pronounced manner in our team...
		Fixing a match does not mean fixing all the players in the team.
		Matches can be and are fixed but they can be fixed only for losing, not for winning...
	www.hindu.com /fline/fl1709/17091220.htm (1969 words)

	vrtnieuws.net - Match Fixing Scandal - overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Suspect in Ye match fixing case accuses Anderlecht.
		Match fixing scandal proves too much for club coach.
		Father of goalkeeper implicated in match fixing speaks.
	www.vrtnieuws.net /nieuwsnet_master/versie2/english/overzicht/overzicht_Ye_English/index.shtml (187 words)

	Match Fixing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the mid nineties cricket was plagued by allegations of match fixing which forced the International Cricket Council to start investigating the allegations.
		Subsequently the captain of South Africa got involved and players from countries like Pakistan; by the time the investigation caught up with match fixing, majority of the fans had lost faith in the outcome of the games that they were watching.
		Fans always blamed match fixing whenever their teams lost and as the game earned a bad reputation the sponsorship money started to dry up.
	www.people.iup.edu /dtlk/MatchFixing.htm (289 words)

	Referee denies match-fixing
		Jansen, the only Bundesliga referee mentioned in connection with the case, is under suspicion of fixing two matches, including the Bundesliga game between FC Kaiserslautern and FC Freiburg in November last year.
		Jansen, who looked close to tears early in a news conference, showed clips of the matches in question as he sought to refute allegations that he manipulated games.
		News that the investigation has taken in a first division match has added to the embarrassment for German soccer as the country prepares to host the 2006 World Cup.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2005/feb/05ref.htm (374 words)

	Free Football Picks - Iqbal Match Fixing Go-Between?
		ASIF Iqbal, the former Pakistan and Kent player, is the Inter-national Cricket Council official alleged to be the go-between in match-fixing by Salim Malik, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation who have obtained a copy of the tapes made by the News of the World.
		Iqbal, 56, played 58 Test matches for Pakistan before becoming the director of cricket at Sharjah, the Gulf venue which has staged more one-day internationals than any other ground and which has been at the centre of allegations of match-fixing.
		He will be talking to the players, he can do it any time." The whole cost of fixing a match, according to the tapes, is £500,000, with £100,000 of it allegedly going to Malik himself.
	www.bettorsworld.com /web/forums/showthread.php?t=5371 (635 words)

	Match-fixing - Siva Choy
		Sebastian, who had been hosting World Cup matches in his house as long as we remember, muttered that he might have to withdraw his sponsorship.
		She fixed sandwiches and drinks and she not only watched the matches with us, but also commented on them.
		Except (a) she commented more than the official TV Commentator, and (b) her comments were, to use a soccer term, a bit off-side.
	www.generationterrorists.com /articles/match_fixing.shtml (755 words)

	ABC News: 4 Arrested in German Match-Fixing Scandal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Soccer officials expressed relief that no referees have been linked to the ongoing investigation unlike the last scandal and first-division games are not involved.
		The arrests follow an investigation of a group suspected of trying to fix German second division and regional league games, Frankfurt prosecutor Thomas Bechtel said.
		In November, a Berlin court gave six men including two referees and a former player jail time or suspended sentences for fixing 23 games in 2004.
	abcnews.go.com /Sports/wireStory?id=1710174 (276 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Football \| Europe \| German ref admits fixing matches
		The German Football Federation had said he was under suspicion of rigging a Hamburg SV cup match last year.
		The DFB investigation has now been widened to include five more matches Hoyzer was involved in.
		The match at the centre of the allegations involved Hamburg SV against lower-league Paderborn where Hoyzer sent off one Hamburg player and awarded Paderborn two penalties.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/football/europe/4212997.stm (242 words)

	Match Fixing??? - Badminton Central Discussion Forums
		I hope no one is offended by my asking this question but I need reassurance that Match fixing does not take place, (as i will never be able to watch a badminton video the same way again.
		I am not sure whether the match was fixed, but looking at their previous encounters, there is no fight at all (look at the low scores)..
		The idea for this "match fixing" is to allow the player to score as many points as possible so that he/she can rise in the seedings.
	www.badmintoncentral.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1258 (801 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Global: News - Ex-keeper jailed for match fixing
		Legalised football gambling raked in S$200 million in bets when it was introduced in Singapore in 1999, but revenues dropped by an estimated 25-30 percent last year as punters grew disillusioned by the scandals.
		In 1999, a Croatian belonging to a local team was attacked by a bookie with a hockey stick the day before a match.
		In 1994, a major bribery scandal broke when Singapore police arrested a striker and a referee for fixing six matches in the 16-team Malaysian league.
	www.soccernet.com /global/news/2001/0106/20010106singaporefixing.html (480 words)

	Zimbabwe tri-series under match-fixing cloud
		The fourth one-day international during Pakistan's tour of India, where the game in Ahmedabad was delayed due to wet pitch conditions, is also under the ICC scanner.
		There is no need for ICC to raise match fixing issue in this series.Since NZ had already qualified for the final they had rested bond...
		The second ODI between India and NZ, which India won certainly has all the ingredients of Match fixing.
	www.rediff.com /cricket/2005/sep/13fixing.htm (249 words)

	Headlines \| Sports minister alleges match fixing in Kenya vs Tunisia duel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of the indicators that some people wanted Kenya to lose the match was the "apparent tempering" of the starting line-up for the Saturday match.
		It was deliberate that fans are banned from watching the match and the KFF does not appeal against it," he said.
		Fifa ordered the match to be played behind closed doors after the death of a 15-year-old fan in a rush for tickets ahead of Kenya’sWorld Cup qualifier against Morocco in Nairobi in June.
	www.eastandard.net /hm_news/news.php?articleid=28518 (704 words)

	Match-fixing wiped out from cricket: ICC
		In India, the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) investigated the issue, following which four players - Mohammed Azharuddin, Manoj Prabhakar, Ajay Jadeja, Ajay Sharma - and physiotherapist Ali Irani were banned for their alleged role in match-fixing for different periods.
		On the Videocon Cup final that New Zealand won by six wickets at Harare and the subsequent visit of ACSU officials to India last year, Mani said: "First, the incident that you refer to was nothing but pure speculation.
		Every international match is monitored by them, every decision (by umpires) is monitored by them."
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/Sports/20060430/320279.html (505 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News - Italians widen match-fixing probe
		'We are going to investigate the Reggina-Verona and the Chievo-Atalanta matches because during the inquiry into Cristiano Doni we found other bets made by the Atalanta player on those matches,' Porceddu said.
		Doni, 27, who has won plaudits for his performance this season, is one of the three Atalanta players involved in the case.
		The prosecutor recommended to the disciplinary committee a three-year match suspension against seven of the eight players on charges relating to the Atalanta-Pistoiese case.
	www.soccernet.com /europe/news/2000/1123/20001123italymatchfix.html (270 words)

	Italian soccer league match-fixing - actionBERG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Italian League soccer team Genoa was recently demoted after alledgedly fixing a match versus Venezia.
		The went out of there way to fix the matches than didnt recive payments… this links all the way back to lucky Lucianos as one of the head orchistratores and massiomo napolitano,,, and nick lagamba collected and killed after the matches….
		1982- palo rossi was banned for soccer for a wide spred of match fixing….
	actionberg.com /2005/07/29/italian-soccer-league-match-fixing (621 words)

	Italian Football Match-Fixing Scandal Widens
		The scandal involves the possible collusion in the appointment of match referees for Serie-A competition.
		In 1980, several team officers and players were arrested for match fixing.
		Six years ago, several players were arrested for the same offense, while in 2004 the club Modena lost points and several players were banned for fixing matches.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-05-12-voa54.cfm (284 words)

	Online Casino News.com - All The Gambling, Sports and Casino News for the Internet Gambler
		The ATP has launched an investigation into suspected match fixing on the professional mens tennis tour, with online betting sites alleged to have been the vehicle for rigged bets.
		Betting on some first-round matches has been more than double the money bet on the remainder of the first round matches, prompting online betting operation Skybet to announce last week that they take no more bets on the first-round at smaller tournaments.
		In August, Ings asked for an ATP supervisor’s report on a match in Long Island after a tip-off about unusual volumes of bets on certain matches by the Sunday Telegraph.
	www.onlinecasinonews.com /ocnv2_1/article/article.asp?id=4205 (287 words)

	CBI- Match Fixing Report
		The Ministry's letter further requests the CBI to collect and evaluate various news-items and information published in both the print and electronic media and conduct a comprehensive enquiry into the allegations of match fixing and related malpractices connected with the game of cricket.
		In this exercise, thousands of pages of mobile phones and land line printouts including those of players, their relatives, associates, and bookies, etc. were analysed through a specially designed computed software.
		Details of telephone calls made by cricket players from their hotel rooms during recent matches were also analysed.
	yehhaicricket.com /CBI/cbi_report/match_fixing_report.html (399 words)

	Hansie Cronje - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cronje thought the coast was clear to step on and drive his spikes into the ball, but he was caught by a Channel 9 (Australian TV Station, covering the game) camera.
		A devout Christian, it came as a great shock to the cricketing community of South Africa when, in April 2000, he confessed to being involved with the largest match fixing scandal in the game of cricket, receiving gifts and money from bookmakers to fix the results of games.
		One particular incident which came to light during the King commission was when he succeeded in persuading Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams (a seam bowler) to join him in fixing a One Day International at Nagpur in India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hansie_Cronje (747 words)

	BBC SPORT \| CORRUPTION IN CRICKET \| Azharuddin hit with life ban
		Azharuddin was one of India's greatest ever batsmen, having scored more than 15,500 runs in Tests and one-day matches during a 15-year international career.
		All protested their innocence, with Azharuddin claiming that the CBI were not interested in his side of the story.
		It is alleged that Azharuddin accepted large sums of money from bookmaker MK Gupta in return for fixing matches.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/in_depth/2000/corruption_in_cricket/1055889.stm (400 words)

	International - Match fixing still alive: Nawaz
		Karachi: Former Pakistan pacer Sarfraz Nawaz said yesterday a gambling and match fixing mafia is active ahead of next month’s World Cup in southern Africa and a clean event was not possible.
		“The gambling mafia is active and the World Cup cannot be held without match fixing,” Nawaz, who played 55 Tests and 45 one-day internationals for Pakistan, said.
		Nawaz testified before two fixing inquiries in Pakistan and alleged Pakistani and leading international players of involvement in match fixing, but could not substantiate his allegations.
	www.mid-day.com /sports/international/2003/january/43132.htm (412 words)

	2006 Serie A scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The scandal was uncovered in May 2006 by Italian police, implicating league champions Juventus, and other major teams including A.C. Milan, Fiorentina, Lazio, and Reggina when a number of telephone interceptions showed a thick network of relations between team managers and referee organisation.
		Giuseppe Pisanu, Italian Minister of the Interior: Moggi allegedly wanted him not to postpone matches when Pope John Paul II was in ill health, in particular one match when Fiorentina would have had four players absent.
		Inter FC was involved in the process from the beginning when Carlo Buora, Chief Operating Officer of Telecom Italia and vice-president of Inter, being the boss of Tavaroli, was accused to be involved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Italian_Soccer_Match_Fixing_Scandal (2937 words)

	Social Soccer - Does Match Fixing Exists? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Do you think there are any form of match fixing involved in their games?
		Already earning what most of us can't even earn in a lifetime, is there a possibility that these players would fall into it?
		Fixing a match to me sounds like organizing a match for your own team against another team.
	www.socialsoccer.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1059 (699 words)

	The Cricket Match Fixing Scandal
		Right from Manoj Prabhakar's signed article in Outlook magazine in 1997 in which he alleged that he was offered Rs.25 lakhs to underperform in an international game, to all the recent developments in what has become cricket's biggest crisis since Bodyline, this page is all you'll need to keep tabs on the match fixing scandal.
		Four months since Hansiegate, match fixing is far from being a closed chapter
		in a vehement denial of accusations of match fixing
	www.geocities.com /cricketparadise/scandal.html (1346 words)

	Juventus to appeal match-fixing sentence
		High-ranking Italian soccer officials also received personal punishments, among them former Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi, who was issued a five-year suspension.
		Moggi and another former Juventus executive were accused of creating a network of contacts with soccer federation officials to help influence referee assignments for their matches.
		As a result of the original verdict, Juventus lost its spot in this season's Champions League, a tournament featuring the top European club teams.
	www.cbc.ca /sports/story/2006/08/24/juventus-match-fixing.html?ref=rss (1388 words)

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