As the Thierry Henry story rumbles on into its fourth day, a story is starting to break which might begin to put it into perspective. It is a story that is breaking from Germany and involves the arrest of seventeen people in connection with what would be the biggest, most systematic match-fixing ring that European football has ever seen.

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Here's the setup Going into the last day of the Maranhão State League second division season in Brazil yesterday, two clubs sat atop the league with the same number of points: Viana and Moto Club. On this decisive day, Viana hosted Chapadinha, a club they had a scoreless draw with the last time they played, and Moto Club took on Santa Quiteria.

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Last week UEFA announced that the number of early round European matches under suspicion of match fixing had risen to forty games, but that, almost exclusively, these events featured teams from eastern Europe.
Well, the UEFA roster may well only feature such matches but Football Is Fixed can reveal that TWO of the Champions League representatives from England have also been involved in a little insider trading over the first two rounds of this years' Champions League. Click to continue reading...

Hawick Royal Albert 0 – 7 HuntlyNot a result to raise too many eyebrows. Not, in fact, a scoreline I would ever have imagine myself writing.Yet this Active Nation Scottish Cup first round tie is suddenly in the middle of a match fixing storm after it emerged a number of bookmakers had expressed concerns to the police about some of the betting patterns on the game. Click to continue reading...

UEFA has confirmed that it plans to investigate 40 cases of suspected match-fixing in the Champions League and UEFA Cup. Most of the cases were from Eastern Europe and involved games in the early qualifying rounds of the tournaments, according to Peter Limacher, UEFA's head of disciplinary services.

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Another day, another accusation of match fixing in Eastern Europe. No surprise it's Russia, where the rumblings are around on a seemingly permanent basis. Terez Grozny took on Krylia Sovetov on the weekend in a match which could send Krylia atop the table with the right results. Far too early in the season for it to [. Click to continue reading...

U.S. Soccer has suspended referee Jair Marrufo for two matches for receiving a jersey from Chicago Fire star Cuauhtemoc Blanco after last week's Chicago Fire-Columbus Crew match.

"The initial step in dealing with the situation was to remove Jair Maruffo from his assignment for this weekend," USSF spokesman Neil Buethe said.

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Columbus just won't let it go.
In an exclusive interview with our good friends at Prost Amerika Soccer Brian Bliss says the following:

A Columbus Crew official today gave a very measured response to the incidents during and after the controversial MLS match between Columbus Crew and Sounders' next opponents Chicago Fire.

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¡Que?!' Temo' Under The MLS Microscope Again
Excerpt courtesy of the Columbus Dispatch:

A top American soccer referee and one of Major League Soccer's biggest stars are being investigated by the United States Soccer Federation and the league for their conduct during the Crew's 2-2 tie with the Chicago Fire on Saturday.

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Money has changed the face of football, allowing Premier League clubs to attract world class talents and gain a pre-eminent position in Europe as well as increasing TV viewersips around the world. Nevertheless, too much of a good thing can be self-defeating and money's perverse influences have to be kept in check by an effective regulator. Click to continue reading...

Excellent news. Someone has fixed a match. Or multiple matches. And UEFA has caught the dirty, cheatin#8217; scoundrels. Or so they say. UEFA#8217;s planning to unleash formal charges against a club within the coming days for fixing matches, which was announced at UEFA#8217;s 2009 Congress held in the lovely city of Copenhagen. Click to continue reading...

Stuff to read while you relive a poor career decision...... Wenger needs to buy muzzles in the January window. (SoccerLens) Talking through Spain's match fixing. (ESPN) Djimi Traore's wikipedia page grows ever more impressive. (The Spoiler) ESPN's Gamecast talks back. (Unprofessional Foul) Tore Andre Flo does Norway's Dancing with the Stars. Click to continue reading...

Match fixing in football is, unfortunately, nothing new. Some may even say it's par for the course, particularly if we're talking about Eastern European football (Romania & Poland, I'm lookin' at you). Oh, and Italy - Serie A has rivaled the WWE for legitimacy this decade. Even England has failed to go unscathed, with a [. Click to continue reading...

Remember when Rio Fedinand "forgot" to go to his drug test? That won't be happening again. And not just because Rio seems to be a new man these days. As of next season there's going to be a new Premier League anti-doping system in place. Here's how it will work: Thirty Premier League players will be [. Click to continue reading...

Two Premier League matches are subject of a match fixing investigation by the London fraud unit, according to The Daily Telegraph. The games in question are a Premier League match from 2007 and a Premier League game from 2001. Both matches were accompanied by suspicious betting swings in the Asian betting market. Click to continue reading...

There just might be. There's an investigation going on right now into Derby County's 2-1 win over Norwich City at Carrow Road on October 4th, and the suspicious Asian betting activity surrounding it. I'd say it's suspicious for anyone in Asia to be putting money on Derby County winning a game of football, even if The Rams [. Click to continue reading...

Before this goes too far: The claims that Zenit St. Petersburg's UEFA Cup win was bought are being made by Russian mafiosi. Hardly the most reliable types when it comes to truth telling and a faction well known for embellishing their dirty deeds for the sake of building their reputation and aura. Also worth mentioning [. Click to continue reading...

UEFA will be strengthening its forces against match fixing and corruption in European Football. UEFA and Yahoo both have articles describing the plans. Click to continue reading...

Something to chew on this morning. In the early chapters of the book . . . . I also show that the Asian match-fixers have so destroyed the credibility of their own leagues that they are now fixing games in many European soccer leagues and that generally little effective action has been taken to prevent their [. Click to continue reading...

And by "buy", I mean threaten everyone into giving the team over to an organized crime ring.
Now of course, this is Lazio. In a league scoffed at for match-fixing and corruption, I think Lazio is the worst of all.
It's fans are the highest degree of crazy. Of course, they famously displayed a "Auschwitz is your homeland. Click to continue reading...

What's that I smell? Is that...Luciano Moggi? More questions now surrounding thaegitimacy of two matches in Serie A this season, after a year of refereeing which brought back memories of World Cup 2002 and everything Juventus did for a 3 year period. The incidents involve the actions between one Atalanta player and five Livorno players and [. Click to continue reading...

Portuguese champions FC Porto have been formally accused of fixing two domestic fixtures in the 2003-04 season. The games in question, against Estrela da Amadora and Beira Mar, came in the same year ex-Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho led Porto to Champions League glory.
Mourinho, who won the Champions League as well as the domestic title that season before moving to Chelsea, is not thought to be subject of the investigation. Click to continue reading...