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5 years since the change about the ball having to leave the penalty area before it is in play, but only the attacking team had to leave the penalty area back then(?)
Club Brugge v Villa
- Thread starter Paul_10
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I know the admins get touchy about this word (it can't be ignored, though) but I think the football authorities ought to look into possible corruption here. It's such a childish error, and has happened twice now. Any sport with that much money floating about and that amount of betting taking place is prime for this type of behaviour.
Think you overestimate the thinking-power of most top-tier footballers who have lived in a bubble for the last 10+ years, and just how hard it would be to coordinate everyone on both (all three?) teams to deliver such a result.
or just a bet on Club Brugge being awarded a penalty ?
For it to be worthwhile for a footballer who was on £50k per week, you're probably looking at a bet or bets in the region of several hundred thousand pounds. If that happened, I assure you the authorities would know about it before the match even took place and there is not a chance he would get away with it.
Mings has made mistakes through a lack of concentration during his whole career, it is nothing more than that.
If I was going to give a penalty away to win a bet I'd like to think I would be a little bit more subtle than picking the ball up.
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True—but defenders would go out to the side of the PA to be targets for the pass. That’s what I was referring to.
Fair point ! just too many of these things cropping up. I'm not the accusing players (Premier League ones hardly need the £'s), it's more a case of them being got at.