Blatter claims European Draws were `fixed`!

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Ive always thought that. There are many games in England i've thought have been fixed, but the biggest one ive always said and no one really says anything is the night in 2005 when some stupid team got that Champions League and in 2006 4 teams in Italy including Milan were punished for match fixing. So really they have four cups and one tainted. Just my opinion tho of many match fixings and many more to come ie England Euros 2016 as in there is no way the footballing rulers are going to allow a country that gets blamed for any violence and disturbances to take away the 2nd most prestiges trophy on offer (After the World Cup, which is another one we wont hold or host in the next 20-30 years).
 
Loads of scenarios that I thought at the time were too good to be true. The chairman of TNS coming out and saying they'd like Liverpool in the first CL qualifying round in 05/06, Liverpool came out and said they wanted to avoid travelling to Azerbaijan or Georgia, the draw is made and against all the odds it's coincidentally TNS in Wrexham. Funny that.

Then there was that first Chelsea Barca game with Mourinho involved when it all kicked off. Afterwards there was loads of rhetoric around what a spectacle it was and imagine if it happened twice in a group game...,which of course it did the very next season.

Back to Liverpool though and UEFA were almost giddy at the prospect of country protection not applying to them in the groups for 05/06, imagine a rerun of the Liverpool Chelsea semi final they said. They coincidentally got their wish of course.

A quick look at the semi final draws for the CL and Europa this year. Real, Bayern, Liverpool, Sevilla. The 2 biggest well supported teams from the semi lineups from both competitions all coincidentally drawn with the second leg at home.

I personally think there's too much money flowing round football for stuff like draws not to be fixed.
 
.....fixed draws are only truly effective if the resulting matches are influenced. If all this is true, it seriously leaves the referee Kolina open to challenge. Let's not forget he still has a position of responsibility in charge of referees at current European Championships.

I heard that after the Reds won the Champions League in Istanbul the resultant World Club Championship was fixed so they got beat. I have never watched that game but apparently it's obvious. To temper this they were given a number of easy draws in later competitions which looks a distinct possibility given the revelation in this thread.
 

and only just now he says it. Hard to believe what he says. There's so much greed around in football it almost certainly has happened, especially when they create laws with flaws, like in 2006 because the higher powers are too stupid to think of every scenario.
 

Eggs said:
.....fixed draws are only truly effective if the resulting matches are influenced. If all this is true, it seriously leaves the referee Kolina open to challenge. Let's not forget he still has a position of responsibility in charge of referees at current European Championships.

I heard that after the Reds won the Champions League in Istanbul the resultant World Club Championship was fixed so they got beat. I have never watched that game but apparently it's obvious. To temper this they were given a number of easy draws in later competitions which looks a distinct possibility given the revelation in this thread.
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Please don't refer to that lot as 'the Reds' ever again, ta. Makes me sick in my mouth.

The bit that still riles me more than ever about that CL palaver is the TV money. The RS were incurred as a guest of UEFA, were given no country protection (further evidence that they were not aligned to the PL), and made to qualify from the first round. Yet they made the PL sides split the cash 5 ways, not 4, which implies they were acknowledging them as a PL qualifier. If they were guests of UEFA then they should've stood extra TV money for the RS, not split ours.
 
Normally, everything Sepp Blatter says is taken with a pinch of salt round these parts.

And with very good reason.

He is a liar, a blackguard, a thief and an all round wrong 'un.

So why are we suddenly taking sommat he says as being the God's truth :blush:
 
ForeverEverton said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...aims-seen-hot-cold-balls-used-aid-cheats.html

Just read this article where Sepp Blatter claims European Draws were fixed using hot and cold balls.

I`m sure this was the case having drawn Villareal and the appointment of Collina.

They didn't want 5 English teams in the Champions League.
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If they didn't want five English teams in the CL that year all they had to do was stick by the rule already in place, which was that the CL winners did not have the automatic right to defend the trophy.

So no, I don't buy into a conspiracy theory which left them open to winding up with the very opposite of what they wanted when they already had the mechanism in place to prevent it any old way.
 

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