WeeHectorPar Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 A number of people are "helping police with their enquiries" in France in a suspected match-fixing scandal in France during last season's Ligue 2 campaign.The scandal is centred around Nîmes Olympique who are thought to have tried to fix at least 3 matches and were under telephone surveillance. One of the board members is thought to have attempted to buy a match against CA Bastia but this was turned down due to the presence of several VIPs at the match. For the match at Dijon, it is suggested that 50,000 Euros would be paid to the club and the same amount to the players if Dijon would take things easy. This was supposedly agreed to but the match was so one-sided that Dijon won 5-1. The third match concerns the one played at Caen. Both teams would be happy with a draw, Caen needing only a few points to win promotion and Nîmes requiring just a couple of points to avoid relegation. The matcg finished 1-1. A vast quantity of bottles of wine were delivered to the Caen dressing room at half-time. If found guilty, the teams face the threat of relegation. Caen are presently 17th in Ligue 1, one place above relegation on goal difference and might find themselves in Div3 next season. Dijon are 3rd in Ligue 2 and Nîmes 12th out of 20. CA Bastia are presently 14th of 18 in National (div 3). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 Interesting. Must say, I'm surprised that figures as low as E50,000 or "a vast quantity of bottles of wine" would be enough to buy matches in the 2nd tier of a major pro league like France. But sometimes matchfixing involves apparently surprisingly low sums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Cort's Hamstring Posted November 19, 2014 Share Posted November 19, 2014 The third match concerns the one played at Caen. Both teams would be happy with a draw, Caen needing only a few points to win promotion and Nîmes requiring just a couple of points to avoid relegation. The matcg finished 1-1. A vast quantity of bottles of wine were delivered to the Caen dressing room at half-time. That is gloriously French. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeeHectorPar Posted November 20, 2014 Author Share Posted November 20, 2014 Outside of the large cities support isn't all that great and grounds aren't any bigger than those in Scotland. Attendances at most games are pretty low. They depend on TV money which comes from Canal +. D3 is semi-pro and D4 and below are purely amateur. The view of French football given by the National team and clubs like PSG, Monaco, Marseille, Lyon, Lille and Bordeaux totally masks the reality of the country as a whole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebbes20silkcut Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 French football and rugby is red with corruption every week in both games a team plays Toulouse, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Sounds like Dijon's opponents were paid more than 50k to take it easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Four Marseille officials are being questioned over taking illegal payments in transfers involving the club. Transfers including the signings of Gignac and Diawara, and sales of Drogba and Nasri. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Outside of the large cities support isn't all that great and grounds aren't any bigger than those in Scotland. Attendances at most games are pretty low. They depend on TV money which comes from Canal +. D3 is semi-pro and D4 and below are purely amateur. The view of French football given by the National team and clubs like PSG, Monaco, Marseille, Lyon, Lille and Bordeaux totally masks the reality of the country as a whole. Yep, they don't have the same grass roots support as the likes of Spain, Italy or Germany. A lot of indifference towards the sport. PSG is a good example, clearly now their biggest club, but one who was only formed by a merger in 1970. Their national team too had a pretty poor record for a long time, but improved dramatically as more and more immigrants moved to the country and swelled to the ranks of the national team. Their team now is full of players of West African and North African descent, it gives them a significant advantage. Interesting fact, the captain of their 1930 World Cup was a murderer and a Nazi symapthiser who was shot for treason in 1944. Bad guy all round: http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2009/nov/16/france Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Sounds like Dijon's opponents were paid more than 50k to take it easy. No bribes, they just didn't cut the mustard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruoninga Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 I am not sure if there is a general match fixing thread (there should be), so I just post in this one: Some rather dodgy penalty decisions during Heerenveen - Standard Liege; friendly in Spain. Heerenveen decides to abandon the game after the ref orders the last saved penalty kick to be retaken. Probably had the money on three converted spot kicks or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted January 11, 2015 Share Posted January 11, 2015 First two looked feasible, third was off camera, fourth was outside the box and a foul one time out of a hundred. Retake reason was also off camera, though the time at which the boy entered the frame suggests he might well have been encroaching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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