Comments on: Was Last Year’s UEFA Cup Fixed?

By: dp

dp — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:21:59 +0000

Honestly, I’d look at the Bayern game if anything, but Rangers had no chance with their style and Arshavin running wild as he did during the summer in the Euros–but even then, I can’t really point at anything that would stand out to me that would indicate a fix. Zenit as a whole are just really, really good.

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:19:06 +0000

Well, there are currently transfer rumors linking Bayern to Zenit’s Pavel Pogrebnyak and Andrey Arshavin as well as CSKA Moscow’s Igor Akinfeev. Don’t be surprised if those players are on the way to Munich in the winter. Deals kindly brokered and paid for by the Russian Mafia.

Anyway, I know from the time I spend with the Mafia, that this type of bragging is pretty normal. I recently made a name for myself with the local don by claiming I had brought down the bailout bill in the US congress, by buying some Republican votes and then my don one-upped me, by claiming he had started the whole credit crunch crisis in the first place.

By: Juliet

Juliet — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:23:30 +0000

Bayern are one of Europe’s richest clubs, with plenty of money and pretty open books, too. I’d point to the refs before Bayern, but I no longer recall if I thought the calls were inexplicably bad…

By: 9 champion leagues

9 champion leagues — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:53:16 +0000

One of Spain’s popular prosecuting attorney, Baltazar Garzón, is giving thought on taking this case. I read an article on it in “El Pais” which called the process “Troika operation”. The prosecutor asked and recieved vast information on Guenadis Petrov, one of Russia’s most popular crime organization known as “Tambobskaya” located mainly in St. Petersberg. The heavy material resides in a tapped phone conversation back in may between petrov and a colleague, Leonid Christoforov, who boasted of knowing bayern would fall 4-0.
Another phone conversation revealed petrov had paid bayern of munich 50 million but not specifying in which currency…..

Looks interesting to me, there’s more illegalities in the sport day by day, i also reckon some powerful italian mafia tried purchasing Lazio in order to hide its money laundering.

By: 9 champion leagues

9 champion leagues — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:42:33 +0000

By: j

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:48:43 +0000

I understand and respect why you posted this story so please don’t take my comments wrong. However when this broke I looked through everything I could find on it and no-one is taking this as a serious comment yet and I couldn’t even come close to substantiating it other that it was reported in the press.