Bradley: Roma vs. Cagliari, 2/1

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  1. deuteronomy

    deuteronomy Member+

    Angkor Siem Reap FC
    United States
    Aug 12, 2008
    at the pitch
    Club:
    Siem Reap Angkor FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Those balls swerving in from the corner are a goalkeeper's horror. Very, very difficult to get the footwork right, because it is hard to guage where the shot is headed. Goicoechea
    unfortunately lost control of his body while he was stretching backwards to catch the ball. It can be a challenging decision to catch or parry. He knew he could catch it, but that was as far as his thinking went, grin, he should have parried.

    Ironically, it was a parody of Zeman's season at Roma.
     
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  2. comoesa

    comoesa Member+

    Aug 13, 2010
    Christen Press's armpit
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I like Zeman.

    Whatever coach they get is gonna have a tough time getting Roma's young back line to stop having brain farts.
     
  3. Suyuntuy

    Suyuntuy Member+

    Jul 16, 2007
    Vancouver, Canada
    There are web sites where they invite you to pay, in order to get the results of matches a week or two in advance. Often, they give you a hint, but you have to pay for the full information. For example, "game in Serie A in the next couple of weeks, final score 1-2" or "2.Bundesliga this week, visitor wins by wide margin."

    When you pay, they give you the details and a way to "unpay" if the result is not as expected. The web sites keep changing, of course, because this activity is completely illegal. Those familiar with old-time piracy may remember how in order to find the pirates' cove, you needed to Altavista the pass phrase ("zero day" was the most common).

    For these games, the most common phrase is "another win." Although alternative versions exist in Italian and German, since most of the fixed games seem to involve clubs from those two countries. The Roma result was (supposedly) known long time in advance, as a home defeat, that's why we saw some strange defensive mistakes.

    Today it hit the front page of Yahoo, finally:
    http://news.yahoo.com/european-match-fixing-probe-380-suspicious-games-112420894--sow.html

    And on the BBC:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21319807

    In many cases, the coaches themselves seem oblivious to the bets/fixing, since they are supposedly arranged by club owers, the betting mafia, and some of the players themselves.

    At any rate, this investigation is just starting. The problem was bad five years ago. Right now, it's so big I have my doubts that there are any honest games left, in particular in Italy and Germany.
     
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