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Fourth man arrested in Tottenham bid affair, & a Swiss club thrown out of league in strange circumstances

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By Tony Attwood

I was planning to put up a story today (a couple of days late) saying that a third person has been arrested by [...]

When a club is bought, spends big, and then collapses… How money laundering in football works.

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By Anne.

Part one of this article is available here.

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Money laundering through the transfer market is slightly more complicated than the activities described in the first article. [...]

Money laundering is not complicated, you just need a cash generating business. Football is a cash generating business.

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Money laundering is not complicated, you just need a cash generating business. Football is a cash generating business.

By: Anne

The Financial Action Task Force [...]

After Fulham, what Arsène did not say: an Untold apology

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After Fulham, what Arsène did not say: an Untold apology

By: Anne

In my previous Untold Media article, “After Fulham. All the things the press reported but which Arsène did not say,” I [...]

Fifa say the Premier League could be fixed and appoint ex-Interpol man to investigate

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By Tony Attwood

Next month Fifa starts up a telephone hotline for players and officials who come forward with evidence of match fixing. Everyone who does come forward will be guaranteed immunity.

Now [...]

The FA and League has only themselves (and the police, and Tottenham) to blame for the racism mess

By Tony Attwood

According to reports Tom Adeyemi who plays for Oldham, on loan from Norwich City, was racially abused by one or more Liverpool fans at the Anfield ground last night. He gave a statement to Merseyside Police in which it is understood he claimed to have been racially abused twice by a supporter.

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Corruption in the Premier League: Poor-Bert, the next head of the PGMOL?

By Walter Broeckx

What on earth is wrong with ref Probert? Last year I wrote an article after the Wigan game which was also a Christmas game only 2 days after a previous game. He then screwed us over with not giving a blatant penalty for handball in the last minute. And that after he [...]

Money Laundering in Football – are the crooks really running the show? Part 2 of our investigation

Money laundering, football and the press – part 2 (with added Lassana Diara)

By Anne

In our first article in this series exposing corruption in football we took a quick look at the situation at Tottenham and the minor matter of how a set of phone records got into the wrong hands – before contemplating [...]

Money Laundering, Premier League football, Operation Apprentice, and a little more on Portsmouth FC (again)

 

By: Anne

 

You know, it’s amazing how quiet the football media can be when they want to…

Leading into our upcoming series on the transfer market, transfer rumours, and (here’s the big one) possible money laundering in the EPL, I thought I would give our readers a few things to think about in [...]

Match fixing in the Premier League: the proof, the evidence, the prediction

By Tony Attwood

Imagine you are taken to the roof of a tower block and invited to jump off. More than like you will say, “well actually no, if you don’t mind, I won’t.” Or words to that effect.

“Why not?” enquires the awfully nice chap with you who is inviting you to do [...]

The terrible truth behind how refs are bought in Arsenal games

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By Walter Broeckx

I will start with a question that could be asked at an Arsenal quiz evening and I think that [...]

If the FA had any moral sense it would leave Fifa now; and the government would apologise too

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Latest: Untold Arsenal on Arsenal.com commenting on the Norwich game (with special reference to [...]

What the Mirror and Sun might have said about Harry if he’d worked for Arsenal

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By Tony Attwood

. The Sun newspaper is in a bit of a pickle at the moment. You see, Harry Redknapp is their columnist and (presumably) paid lots of money to write stuff, which means that when the big news in football is that Harry Redknapp is going to [...]

Should Arsenal join other major teams in fixing matches to ensure survival?

By Tony Attwood

Of course the question in the title is loaded,and I know there are some people who don’t actually believe that match fixing goes on in the Premier League. They see, and presumably accept, the evidence of match fixing from across Europe, but believe that somehow (in ways that I have never seen [...]

Corruption, corruption… another arrest, and it makes you wonder…

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By Walter Broeckx

A couple of days back the president of the Romanian Referee Commission Vasile Avram has been arrested. This Mr. Avram is what you could call the Mike Riley of Romania. He is the one that decides which ref goes to do which game. A [...]

Revealed: the trick Barca are pulling to pay the fee for Cesc

By Tony Attwood

Last year, as we all know, Barca effectively went bust and in June were unable to pay their players. This year, equally famously, they have said they are saving money by stopping colour photocopying.

So how can they spend £30m or more on Cesc?

The answer is that Barca will more [...]

Ryo Miyaichi: who checks the passport. Oh no oh no oh no!!!

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By Tony Attwood

Arsenal have been using Ryo Miyaichi in their friendlies this season – and yet he does not appear to qualify to play in the UK. So what’s going on?

The first possibility is that somehow during his time in the Netherlands he picked up a [...]

We have a definite link between buying a club and match fixing

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By Walter Broeckx

As I am not from England I have a bit of a handicap in some things. Even though we can see some channels over here in Belgium we don’t get all the UK channels. So I couldn’t see the Dispatches programme about “buying a football [...]

Phone hacking and football: refs and club owners.

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By Tony Attwood

If you live outside the UK or you are within the UK and resolutely don’t ever read a newspaper, watch TV or listen to the radio you might not know that this country is in the middle of one of its biggest political [...]

Untold Media Watch: how one paper has read Untold and changed its mind about Cesc

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By Tony Attwood

In the novel “1984″ by George Orwell (the book that gave us such phrases as “Big Brother” and “Room 101″ and the notion that newspapers exist to make up news that fits a particular political viewpoint), one of the features of the regime that [...]

Italian match fixing raises its head again: this time its Inter

By Tony Attwood

Gian Piero Gasperini has become manager of the Milanese club Inter. And just as he has, so Stefano Palazzi, who works for the Italian football federation (FIGC) has published a new 72-page report on the match-fixing of 2006. After looking at transcripts of phone-tap recordings, Palazzi has reached the [...]

Turkey and Greece: two more countries in the growing match fixing scandal Football Scandal

By Tony Attwood

The Turkish Organized Crime Department have moved in on individuals seemingly involved in a match-fixing scandal. Around 40 people have been arrested including three club presidents – one of them the president of Fenerbahce.

Two Fenerbahce players, Emmanuel Emenike and Sezer Öztürk, have also been held in custody.

Other footballers arrested include [...]

Tottenham apply for non-refundable government money to redevelop WHL. We talk to the minister

By our undercover reporters M. Adeup and T. Ruth

Following revelations that Tottenham Hotspur FC have applied to the government for a non-refundable grant for the redevelopment of their White Hart Lane “ground” we decided to seek an interview with the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, the Right Hon [...]

Roman Abramovich and Michel Platini. Who is kidding whom?

By Tony Attwood

For Arsenal to win the league this coming season we need four things to happen.

Quite obviously the team needs to play well. I know it is patently obvious, but sometimes I like the obvious. Equally obvious is that the under 10s say there’s no chance of that, and they are [...]

Refs and scandals: Argentina, Greece, Germany, Hungary, internationals…

By Walter Broeckx

Untold Arsenal has always been one of those blogs that is very open to the thought that games can be bought in some way, either by buying some player(s) or is it by buying a ref.

Why a player or a ref is bought for is something we don’t know yet. I [...]