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Zulus Thousand of em · Post by **Zulus Thousand of em** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:13 am

Uefa has denied the Champions League draw was fixed - despite the quarter-final line-up appearing on the internet 90 minutes before the official ceremony had taken place. (Various)

Worthy4England · Post by **Worthy4England** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:32 am

Zulus Thousand of em wrote:Uefa has denied the Champions League draw was fixed - despite the quarter-final line-up appearing on the internet 90 minutes before the official ceremony had taken place. (Various)

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:52 am

crookeder than a dog's back leg

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:01 am

Any truth behind this?? (any links??)

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:32 am

Lord Kangana wrote:Any truth behind this?? (any links??)

http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/03/ ... aw-rigged/

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:38 am

Cheers.

Being the natural cynic I am, it just basically confirms what I always thought.

And being an uber-cynic means I reckon this all maybe a hoax by those loveable scallies over on the echo site (hacking in and playing with the time on the threads?).

Though even if it were a hoax, I still think its rigged (££££££££)

Zulus Thousand of em · Post by **Zulus Thousand of em** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 5:19 pm

Lord Kangana wrote:Any truth behind this?? (any links??)

I got the first bit from here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 297975.stm

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:45 pm

communistworkethic wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:Any truth behind this?? (any links??)
http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/03/ ... aw-rigged/

i couldn't get into the story with all the links for nba, nfl and nhl cheerleaders down the right hand side distracting me

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 7:53 pm

hisroyalgingerness wrote:
communistworkethic wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:Any truth behind this?? (any links??)
http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/03/ ... aw-rigged/
i couldn't get into the story with all the links for nba, nfl and nhl cheerleaders down the right hand side distracting me

oh aye.....

http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/photos/nfl-cheerleaders/

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 10:54 pm

aye, these boys don't have an attendence problem

you listening garty?

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:14 pm

hisroyalgingerness wrote:aye, these boys don't have an attendence problem

you listening garty?

Bit harsh on the Reebok rebels Ginge - in typical Bolton fashion, they give 100%.

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:05 pm

and are still somewhat lacking up front.

boltonboris · Post by **boltonboris** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:06 pm

I also saw somebody put the 'results' of the draw up before it took place.....

They declared Chelsea and Man Utd would be playing eachother.

Any chance this could be guess work on the websites part?

David Lee's Hair · Post by **David Lee's Hair** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:16 pm

Puskas · Post by **Puskas** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:16 pm

boltonboris wrote:I also saw somebody put the 'results' of the draw up before it took place.....

They declared Chelsea and Man Utd would be playing eachother.

Any chance this could be guess work on the websites part?

Indeed. I'm not for one moment suggesting UEFA would be above rigging it if they thought there was financial benefit (and if they thought they'd get away with it), but just think - every year, I get at least one circulation of a "leaked" fixture list for the season. It's always wrong. But, given there are far less possible combinations here, it'd be easy to imagine that with just a few guesses on different websites (and just pairing the teams, rather than attempting to put them in any sort of order), then one of the guesses could be correct.

boltonboris · Post by **boltonboris** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:27 pm

Puskas wrote:
boltonboris wrote:I also saw somebody put the 'results' of the draw up before it took place.....

They declared Chelsea and Man Utd would be playing eachother.

Any chance this could be guess work on the websites part?
Indeed. I'm not for one moment suggesting UEFA would be above rigging it if they thought there was financial benefit (and if they thought they'd get away with it), but just think - every year, I get at least one circulation of a "leaked" fixture list for the season. It's always wrong. But, given there are far less possible combinations here, it'd be easy to imagine that with just a few guesses on different websites (and just pairing the teams, rather than attempting to put them in any sort of order), then one of the guesses could be correct.

I wasn't going to put that because I'm a believer that this was all above board like you and that the website guessed (as my post states) BUT the three biggest clubs left in the tournament (commercially - that is) have the favourable draws. Man Utd, Chelsea and Barcelona all should progress without much of a fuss (I'm not saying the United game is easy but they are a much better team than Roma) Also the added spice of the previous game could draw in massive viewing figures for this one in the hope of seeing something controversial

Zulus Thousand of em · Post by **Zulus Thousand of em** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:56 pm

boltonboris wrote:I also saw somebody put the 'results' of the draw up before it took place.....

They declared Chelsea and Man Utd would be playing eachother.

Any chance this could be guess work on the websites part?

Nope - and there are no fairies at the bottom of my garden either. At least, not when I last checked!