The beautiful game's ugly underside was exposed on Monday as one of Europe's senior crime fighters revealed hundreds of games are under investigation in what he described as "a sad day for European football."

Recent match-fixing scandals have centered on South Korea and South Africa, but Europol believes the highest levels of the game are now no longer safe with alleged corruption in two Champions League matches discovered, including one played in England, with 680 games in all being probed across the globe.

"This is the work of a suspected organized crime syndicate based in Asia and operated with criminal networks around Europe," Rob Wainwright, director of European law enforcement agency Europol, told reporters, following its 18-month probe.

deal_ordea:
Recent match-fixing scandals have centered on South Korea and South Africa, but Europol believes the highest levels of the game are now no longer safe with alleged corruption in two Champions League matches discovered, including one played in England, with 680 games in all being probed across the globe.

mukina2: cheksli

earthgreeners:

No one needs to be told that its Mancheaters United

the_ripper2: Chelsea Vs Napoli should be thoroughly scrutinised followed closely by Barcelona vs Ac Milan at camp Nou

mutiply: why cant you be logical for once

earthgreeners:

No one needs to be told that its Mancheaters United

Dap07:
As a matter of fact, it's d Liverpool v Debreceni match, 2009

earthgreeners:

No one needs to be told that its Mancheaters United

earthgreeners:

No one needs to be told that its Mancheaters United

the_ripper2: Chelsea Vs Napoli should be thoroughly scrutinised followed closely by Barcelona vs Ac Milan at camp Nou

harlos: Chelsea vs Napoli is out of it.... Chelsea clearly dominated the match so no talk for that BTW where do u put Chelsea vs Barcelona semi final 2009

mutiply: Am conviced that the champs league match was the semi final game between chelsea and barca some years back, that ref denied chelsea good penalty claims cause he wanted uefa lona to qualify

maskid:

BIGOT!!

Thayay: Chelsea vs barca 2009
liverpools vs debreccen 2009
dinamo zagreb vs lyon 2012
juventus vs shaktar 2012
chelsea vs napoli 2011......these matches are suppose 2 be investigated...to be frank man u don't involve in match fixing,they're just sumtimes favoured by refs for no reason

Dap07:
As a matter of fact, it's d Liverpool v Debreceni match, 2009

mikeywise:
its indeed this match,where the debrecen keeper was paid to conceive atleast 2 goals,
the match ended 1 nil in favour of liverpool. liverpool missed so many scoring chances in dat match.

i am suspecting that chelsea vs barcelona match 2009 at the bridge. how chelsea didnt win that match is still
a question that needs an answer to.