Comments on: Nigeria and Match-Fixing at the World Cup: The Vulnerability Remains http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2010/07/09/nigeria-and-match-fixing-at-the-world-cup-the-vulnerability-remains/ A soccer blog featuring essays, news and photography exploring soccer around the world Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nigeria and Match-Fixing at the World Cup: The Vulnerability Remains « Scissors Kick http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2010/07/09/nigeria-and-match-fixing-at-the-world-cup-the-vulnerability-remains/comment-page-1/#comment-25808 Nigeria and Match-Fixing at the World Cup: The Vulnerability Remains « Scissors Kick Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:56:27 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/?p=11905#comment-25808 [...] Nigeria and Match-Fixing at the World Cup: The Vulnerability Remains “Just to end the week on a depressing note, we hear about a BBC Newsnight report that says FIFA was warned Nigeria might be ‘vulnerable to match-fixing’.” (Pitch Invasion) [...] [...] Nigeria and Match-Fixing at the World Cup: The Vulnerability Remains “Just to end the week on a depressing note, we hear about a BBC Newsnight report that says FIFA was warned Nigeria might be ‘vulnerable to match-fixing’.” (Pitch Invasion) [...]

]]> By: ursus arctos http://pitchinvasion.net/blog/2010/07/09/nigeria-and-match-fixing-at-the-world-cup-the-vulnerability-remains/comment-page-1/#comment-25778 ursus arctos Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:54:07 +0000 http://pitchinvasion.net/?p=11905#comment-25778 A post as depressing as it is excellent. I fear that it would take a scandal of at least this magnitude for FIFA to look at reform seriously, and question whether even that would be enough given the other abuses you have been chronicling lately. At least the Lampard non-goal has brought Valcke to declare that this will be the last World Cup played with the current refereeing system. A post as depressing as it is excellent.

I fear that it would take a scandal of at least this magnitude for FIFA to look at reform seriously, and question whether even that would be enough given the other abuses you have been chronicling lately.

At least the Lampard non-goal has brought Valcke to declare that this will be the last World Cup played with the current refereeing system.

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