bubblylady
Feb 3 2005, 10:00 am
Thank God, I'm not a betting person. Even if I would be intrested in sports the slightest bit.
Read more here...QUOTE
A handsome, yet unscrupulous German referee has brought German soccer to its knees. Games have been fixed, referees and possibly players bribed and the fans cheated of what they love most -- good honest play. How high up the scandal goes is anyone's guess.
A 25-year-old blond heartthrob with an uncommonly good eye, a tad too much greed and an underdeveloped sense of morality has stolen Germany's greatest source of pride. German soccer, it seems, is tainted. Robert "call me Robby" Hoyzer, a rising star referee in German professional soccer, has admitted the unthinkable: He manipulated soccer games for money. Germany's beloved national sport -- indeed, its only major professional sport and the one channel Germans use to fete their country -- has been rigged. Germans, already gripped 2006 World Cup fever in anticipation of Germany's role as host to the event, have fallen into a state of stunned mourning.
Cross-reference by admin: German Match-Fixing Ref Resigns
flogger
Feb 3 2005, 10:04 am
tip of the iceberg, other refs, players, officials... involved allegedly of having their palms greased by the mafia.
its a disgrace. in fact germany should be stripped of the world cup. shame on the nation. it would never happen in...?
shocked
tunbridge wells.
boomtown_rat
Feb 3 2005, 10:12 am
this news is about a week old isn't it? Does seem that there were potentially quite a few people involved. He could have done it a bit better too - those penalties he gave were laughable!!
potbelly
Feb 3 2005, 10:14 am
Apparently this is the tip of the Iceberg.
It's nothing new... Been happening at Old Trafford for decades. Anyway, When did Bruce Grobbelaar move out here then !!
grtho
Feb 3 2005, 10:15 am
Thanks for posting bubblylady. I assumed EVERYONE would know about this already but I'm not sure all TTers read the local press.
The bosses of the German Football Association knew what was going on to according to one paper I saw yesterday...
Topsy
Feb 3 2005, 10:17 am
according to today's abendzeitung, there were dawn raids today on various "schiris" and players all over the country...
no arrests, though
looks like it is the tip of the iceberg, it's quite shocking, really
Dhani J
Feb 3 2005, 10:24 am
i think this story is going to drag on for months. Every time a new name is dropped, the papers and tv stations will run with it.
Jules Winnfield
Feb 3 2005, 10:32 am
Don't worry, as is usually the case with these kinds of witchhunts, they'll find a couple of heretics, burn them at the stake and pretend that everything is fine...
Katrina
Feb 3 2005, 10:32 am
I just hope it finally means the end of MV (so he'll have more time to get *allegedly* hammered).
Is it wrong to find Hoyzer attractive though?
In other news, a Swiss player got sent off at the weekend. Why? He called the ref "Hoyzer"
Jeeves
Feb 3 2005, 10:35 am
To paraphrase what Gordon Brown said to Tony Blair: How can I ever believe anything you say to me again?
Stuttgart losing to Nürnberg at home? Fix!!
Owain Glyndwr
Feb 3 2005, 10:41 am
every time a result looks odd, someone is going to call it a fix.
Wibble
Feb 3 2005, 11:18 am
Reminds me of the last world cup - Germany in the final after having played Saudi Arabia, Eire, Cameroon, Paraguay, USA, South Korea before finally playing someone decent, Brazil.
If that wasn't fixed, S Korea vs Spain and S Korea vs Italy spring to mind then I don't know what is.
The plus side of the whole thing is that the World Cup in 2006 will be so closely monitored that hopefully we will finally get some decent refereeing and maybe they will stop disallowing England's goals because we had a player within 3 metres of the goalkeeper.
Rant over.
Topsy
Nov 17 2005, 4:35 pm
Hoyzer's been sentence to 2 years 5 months in jailHe was hoping for a suspended sentence, but no such luck.
Dunno, really - I suppose they had to be harsh, otherwise other referees might be tempted to go down the same road.
georgiagirl
Nov 17 2005, 4:41 pm
The sentence does seem rather harsh, doesn't it? I mean I know fixing a match is a serious issue, but I've heard of rapists and drug dealers getting lighter sentences. Well, in the US anyhow.
On a side note, does anyone think the ref looks like Jake Gyllenhaal? (Jake's the one on the left.)
Lupo
Nov 17 2005, 4:44 pm
guy on left looks like DrivinWest!
georgiagirl
Nov 17 2005, 4:48 pm
Uh, I gotta disagree. DW's a great chap and all but he doesn't look a thing like Jake Gyllenhaal. However it's been agreed that if he were to bleach his hair he would make an excellent Eminem.
But back to football.
oli2000
Nov 17 2005, 4:50 pm
I find the sentence fully in order. Who ever heard of a referee accepting bribes to fix professional football matches. Can't have that.
sarabyrd
Nov 17 2005, 4:58 pm
And this guy confessed. The other (Marks) is still denying any wrong-doing: "Sure, I took the money, but I didn't manipulate the games." Which, when you think of it, is double-crossing a crook. Does a double negative make it right? Can Ante S. (the briber) sue for him to pay the bribe back, seeing as he didn't earn it?
georgiagirl
Nov 17 2005, 5:01 pm
To me, Marks is making a ridiculous argument. If you accept the bribe, you've committed a crime regardless of whether or not you actually fix the match.
sarabyrd
Nov 17 2005, 5:10 pm
I bet he doesn't inhale while smoking pot either.
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