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Monday, 07 May 2012 15:33 |
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Congrats to Porto but to act like there isn’t funny business with our refs is a joke. Sporting and Benfica has several games were they were robbed by refs. You had the linesman from the Maritmo v. Sporting game arrested last month due to the amounts of cash he was getting in his bank account.
Our liga does nothing to punish refs who do a poor job and they rarely step in when there are bribery issues. There are people making big money on some of these rigged matches and it’s only weakening our liga. It hurts all of our clubs and adds another reason why less people want to attend games and watch our liga.
Sporting is a direct rival to us but even I’ll admit that they were robbed several times early this season which took them out of the title and CL race. I just hope that UEFA/FIFA start putting in technology into the game which gives me some hope that it will force our liga to do a better job at providing a fair championship.
On a side note, one of those reds were warranted as there was a clear tackle within the box that would have likely lead to Porto scoring. I’m not trying to take anything away from Porto’s win over Sporting, I’m just saying that it is very clear that every year our liga continues to see a wide range of matches where several teams get screwed and it does affect the ending table results and European seeds for teams in our liga. There’s a lot of money in rigging games throughout the smaller leagues and it clearly shows that we’re no different.
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