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Re:How Not to Fix Soccer by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday June 22, 2010 @11:31AM (#1452152)
>Now, I can't even trust the refs to make honest calls.

Are you talking about a particular incident of dishonesty? Refs tend to be impartial as they benefit from being impartial (wages, honour) whilst would lose by being noticeably partial (lost license to ref, no more wages).

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Re:How Not to Fix Soccer by yardie on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @10:16AM (#1454969)
Have you been asleep for the last week?!

The ref for the Slovenia/US game was banned from refing any future Worldcup matches and is being investigated by FIFA.

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Re:How Not to Fix Soccer by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @10:52AM (#1455063)
Nope, I just can't afford TV or newspapers and don't find this sort of news reported on places I look on the web, thanks for the info.
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