Is Europe Finally Serious About Fixing Its Match-Fixing Crisis?
World of Crime looks at whether UEFA has really made progress in cracking down on match-fixing rings in top European leagues.
A 12-0 result should raise some red flags. If it was a one-off occurrence, one could complain about vastly different transfer budgets, or the unequal allocation of TV revenues, or any of the many other bugbears football fans like to gripe about.
But a single 12-0 result may not have provided a cause for suspicion.
After all, other more lopsided disasters have happened. Australia shellacked American Samoa 31-0 during a World Cup qualifier. and Preston North End beat Hyde United by 26-0 in England.
Both were fairly unusual. The Australia game helped the country to join the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to play better competition instead of small Oceania islands. And the Preston North End-Hyde United game happened in 1887.
Still, one 12-0 result could have been overlooked. But TWO 12-0 results in the same season of Armenia’s second di…
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