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Today's Banter: Cappello to replace Rafa?, City in for Masche, Beşiktaş rout fixed?, & more
Anfield Banter — ... UEFA and Platini once again are making donkeys of themselves. "The European governing body has received information that 26 games in the Champions League, UEFA Cup and Intertoto Cup may have been fixed since 2005 with Liverpool's 8-0 drubbing of the Turkish club at Anfield - the highest score in Europe's premier competition - among those allegedly involved." Apparently a lot of higher winning margin bets were placed on LFC just before kick off and a few Beşiktaş players might have been paid off not to give their all. Platini should know what a fixed match looks-like and it's ...

Final-in-three-hours news
You'll Never Blog Alone — Liverpool's game against Besiktas may have been fixed. (Though not by Liverpool, it seems.) Um, wow. I mean, odds are that whatever investigation is done won't be finished before the Champions League ends this season -- assuming Liverpool can make it to the knockout stages anyway. ("Odds are" was probably a bad choice of words there, huh?) I know this is all pretty idle speculation at this point, but ... wow. I do have to wonder, though, how you fix an 8-0. Like, that's not just one win, that's enough goals for several wins. Wouldn't fixing a 3-0 or something be easier? You'd ...

The Fix is In: 8-0 is Quite a Dive
The Offside — The Fix is In: 8-0 is Quite a Dive By: Martha | December 5th, 2007 In addition to those Euro 2008 qualifiers that are under investigation for match-fixing, UEFA are also reported to have been contacted by Europol about 26 matches in Champions League, UEFA Cup and Intertoto Cup, all played since 2005. Though nothing official has been released about which matches are being examined (And shut up, Milan didn’t throw that final in Istanbul. It was an entirely honest collapse.), a German newspaper claims to have gotten its hands on some information, and reported today that among those under investigation is Liverpool’s record-setting 8-0 thrashing of ...

Was Liverpool's 8-Goal Champions League Victory Rigged?
FanHouse — Filed under: Soccer Over the weekend, we learned that UEFA and Europol were investigating potentially fixed matches in several European soccer competitions. EURO 2008 qualifiers have since been ruled out of the investigation, but one of the biggest routs in Champions League history could be one of the fixed games in ...