7 Infamous Football Matches That Were FIXED

From the Sunday of Miracles match-fixing scandal in the Polish Ekstraklasa to the infamous rigging of a game between Sheffield Wednesday and Ipswich Town, HITC Sevens takes a look at a number of football matches that were fixed, and the fallout from those scandals.
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[@zsac18]

Shoutout to that art teacher that sent Alfie to detention during that Bibs FC vs Non-Bibs FC game. I made a fortune betting on that outcome that day 😀

[@Stichting_NoFap]

how is this a shoutout?

[@bg22757]

@@Stichting_NoFap it's just a really lame joke

[@f.f5771]

Bibs FC more like Finished FC… probably because they are all done primary school by now

[@IamSuperEffective]

@@Stichting_NoFap because he made a fortune betting on the match, can you read?

[@Stichting_NoFap]

@@IamSuperEffective that doesn't make it a shoutout, you have to know beforehand that the targeted audience will read it, he didn't know if his comment would get enough likes to get at the top.

[@carlhunter5581]

To be fair Alfie, if I heard that a referee for a football match was in fact an art teacher, I'd also assume something suspicious going on.

[@varunchand8546]

Alfie, you are not a mere 'content creator'. You are a football journalist par excellence and let no one ever tell you differently. Your dedication to researching topics and creating pieces that capture the interest of football fans around the world are a testament to your abilities; not to mention the grueling hours of work you pour into your research & production. May your light never dim!

[@IamSuperEffective]

👏👏👏

[@dj71162]

I like how he values the history of the game. Micah Richards can learn a lot. He dismisses football that happened before he was born, I'm not joking.

[@takojanish]

if u want help about fixed matches, just google my name

[@brunoactis1104]

He's a content creator that could easily be a football journalist because he's so good.

[@michalubczynski6128]

Sunday of Miracles: it is quite important to set the scene of matches. Coaches and mangers of both teams were on the phone constantly. When Łodź scored Legia very soon scored too and every goal in one match resulted in goal just a minute later in the other game. Even commentators stopped commenting during those games because of obvious fraud. Wisła fans screamed: "Wisła share some money with us!". When Polish Federation poorly investigated this situation one of investigators said one of the most famous words in polish football. "Whole Poland saw, yet you [federation] are bilnd." This ended his career.

[@kurtsudheim825]

It's a shortlist, he can't give every detail, is a quick summary

[@tomatoisnotafruit5670]

So from I gather it seems like only match that was fixed was Legia vs Wisla, the other team was just hammering a relegated side and kept scoring more and more to win the league, while Wisla just allowed Legia to keep scoring on them to keep the Goal difference the same. If that's the case then Lodz really got screwed over

[@michalubczynski6128]

@@tomatoisnotafruit5670 Well both matches were very fish to say the least. No one was caught red-handed so after public outrage Federation canceled reaults of both matches. That gave third team in the standings enough points to win championship by goal difference and it was awarded to Lech Poznań. To this day no one knows who was bought but both games were breaking point and in my honest opinion it is fair both teams didn't win championship in the end.

[@user-sc8ht7or3d]

Here in Serbia there are few storied about 1991 UCL final and how Marseille tried to bribe Red Star players and staff into losing the game. Goalkeeper Stojanovic basically got approached by some shady men with a bag full of money and advice to "sell the game or else", while Savicevic who would later play for AC Milan said few other players were offered 500.000 deutsche mark each to sell the game. While these accounts still aren't 100% confirmed as truth, considering Marseille would get busted for match fixing just two years later and the fact that stories came directly from the mouths of players and staff who were in the club at that time, not some fan forum or tabloid gossip, there's a decent chance I would say of them being accurate.

[@gentleken7864]

Alfie, how about making a video about how much time Premier League teams gave last season to playing players who'd come up through their youth ranks or from the ages of 17/18 upwards? Then we'd see who really values their young players, or teams with an excellent youth system.

[@metalswifty23]

I think your latter query is certainly split into 2 different points. Some teams can have excellent youth systems, but for whatever reasons, they don't make it to the first team, or you can have those that don't have special youth teams, but have integrated a decent amount of youth players into the first team. A great example, of course, is Chelsea's youth system from the mid-late 00's until 2017 ish, when they kept producing player after player and won a multitude of trophies at youth level, but the players never really made the grade in the first team, though they still went on to achieve solid or even great things elsewhere. Compare that to the recent setup, which is still decent but not winning any trophies, yet the first team has been filled with youth players being integral parts to various trophy wins.

[@giantjellyfish2886]

@@metalswifty23 not a single teenager has played a single minute for chelsea in the prem this season mate

[@metalswifty23]

@@giantjellyfish2886 Where in the original comment does it say anything about them only being teenagers? It makes mention of young players, players who came up from the youth teams, and/or 17/18 _and upwards_ (upwards being the key word you've conveniently ignored there). That would mean Mason Mount, Reece James, Andreas Christensen, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Trevoh Chalobah, and Callum Hudson-Odoi, who all played significant parts during the season, as well as Harvey Vale, Xavier Simons, and Lewis Hall all playing games (all teenagers), albeit in cup competitions. I also set out a specific time frame for the criteria, with 2017 or 2018 being the cut off of the previous youth era, and everything from then to now being the current setup, which then allows me to include Tammy Abraham, Fikayo Tomori, Billy Gilmour, and Ethan Ampadu, not to mention CHO made his debut in 2017 as a 17 year-old, and made his league debut in early 2018 (still 17).

[@myownlilbubble]

Does that include first teams that play academy players from other clubs?

[@joelmcwilliams5694]

Yo

[@hugoblick5800]

Following yesterdays result, there have only ever been 7 results worse than England 0-4 Hungary in Englands entire history, would be cool to see a video on that

[@Strangegloves]

love this idea !!

[@lollipopsaresmelly]

Clever

[@Flyingmanticore]

would be more defeats to hungry though from the 50's against the might Magyars

[@mrgreatbritain]

USA 1-0 England - 1950

[@thehandlebroke]

@@mrgreatbritain That would be number one

[@travislevison6074]

The amount of research you put into these videos is seriously second to none, keep up the great work.

[@tigercap100]

Mmmm. Not so sure about all

[@bg22757]

@@tigercap100 well you can't even finish your sentence so we'll take your opinion with a pinch of salt.

[@bensouthwell1339]

lot of bullshit. Bronco Lane Kay And Swan were on all the newspapers in the land Research my arse.

[@dondamon4669]

Well when it’s your job and you get paid for it so of course gonna be research

[@justhuy7960]

10:12 Fact about Henry Kissinger, he actually won Nobel Prize for Peace in 1973 for negotiating peace between Vietnam (my country) and USA, the prize was shared by him and Vietnamese politician Le Duc Tho, but Mr. Le declined the prize beacause he felt peace wasn't anywhere visible in Vietnam in 1973, also mostly because he and Henry were always on bad terms, especially after their negotiation in late 1972 the USA bombed North Vietnam harder, which was quite near my home. I don't know if Henry had any influence on Argentina at that time but from Vietnamese perspective he is not a peacemaker at all. #myopiniontbf

[@jakeing0ff]

Henry Kissinger is notorious for overthrowing democratically elected governments, and installing right-wing dictators in their place, especially in South America

[@ccyh11]

Anything bad on international relations for the past 50, 60 years has to do with Kissinger

[@NIDOKING]

Greetings from Argentina. Kissinger was the mastermind of something called "Operation Condor" that was pretty far from being positive for anyone at South America, as it affected most countries from the region. At first, it was thought to be only to topple the Chilean goverment of the time, as a leftist won elections there, but then it expanded towards the whole region as most South American nations became US-backed dictatorships who applied state terrorism against the kind of people described in this video. There's some interesting videos about all of that shit that will explain things better than I could ever do, so just look for "Operation Condor" and enjoy.

[@prvoloptaski]

Kissinger is one of the biggest war criminals in history.

[@LUXBLUDHND]

American here, we all hate Kissinger.

[@cbarclay99]

Given the news about Barcelona, a whole new video is in the making.

[@CharlieyT95]

It happened to Brian Clough in European competition twice once with Forest but once before with Derby county

[@Stephen_Platt]

Alfie’s rant about match fixing and dodgy reffing in school footy hit home 😂😂 Still remember a teaching assistant refereeing a tournament we were having and saying before the first match that “football is a non-contact sport”. Even now that memory annoys me 🤬😂

[@MazeA-fj8bq]

I was actually expecting to see Barcelona vs Chelsea 2009 semi final considering it was in the thumbnail lol

[@EmpressTouch]

Or the Villarreal-Everton [you-know-what] after Carvalho-Valdez-Collina five months prior.

[@thejamesonthestreet]

Well, there's (at least) no evidence of rigging, but more of poor refereeing performance. Still, after Ovrebo's "confession" some sort of investigation should've been done given that, unlike Anderlecht in this video, the won the Champions League.

[@DMCpellegrino]

Yep, clickbait strikes again

[@rhack10]

Pure clickbait from this channel

[@sidosh2229]

Day 41: Considering that the last player who played in the miracle of Bern died about 7 months ago, I would really like to see a video about the whole story between Germany and Hungary, especially because it meant so much to at least the German population

[@Pugnare-et-vincere]

RIP Horst Eckel, just a great human beeing. Always nice and always happy to sign Autographs or take Photos with fans. He will always be remembered as one of the greats here in Kaiserslautern.

[@Tibor860]

Common knowledge in Hungary that the whole team The Golden Generation unbeaten in 34 games incl 7-3 vs Germany earlier was paid of at half time Puskas never returned home for 30yrs also Kocsis suicided in Spain due to guilt and depression Later we used to play cards with Puskas when he coached in Australia everytime we mentioned Bern 54 he would be angry and leave the table saying I would never want to talk about what happened in Bern 54 Unbelievable

[@sirokat]

1:21 “Without further ADU then...” Alfie, I’m usually hate bad puns, but that one came to me out of nowhere. Here’s a gold star as a token of appreciation: ⭐️

[@kurtchester7073]

R u kiddin me? Came out of nowhere? Without Freddy Adu is the most used of Alfie's pun. He might have said it at least a 1000 times in his videos.

[@uniquefreak13]

​@@kurtchester7073 I was literally about to type the same thing... it's almost every fuckin video

[@theducklord6125]

@@kurtchester7073 freddy adu and eddie howe

[@zsac18]

Wait until he gets the Eddie Howe anyhow pun...

[@dvdv8197]

It's a classic by now, not the first time he used it haha.

[@geraldmiller5343]

Fixed matches are real, I paid for a match and I got what I paid for, it came out positive

[@stephaniemorgan6284]

It is, I Know of a source but it's really expensive

[@odentenzin3129]

Hey man I need to make money, how much is the rate for match fixing from your source

[@geraldmiller5343]

I get my fixed from (MARKSON FIXED MATCHES )

[@odentenzin3129]

​@@geraldmiller5343Where to search??

[@geraldmiller5343]

On telegram

[@christophercregan6094]

Bristol Rovers vs Scunthorpe last year was allegedly a fix. Scunthorpe recieved a cash injection a few days before the match and Rovers won 7 - 0. Exactly the amount they needed for promotion. But we choose to ignore it because match fixing couldn't possibly happen in England

[@flaminghawk5369]

nah that was just a legendary game

[@christophercregan6094]

@@flaminghawk5369 "It couldnt happen in England! our game is pure! just ignore all the obscure finances at the time, it was just resting in their account"

[@iamtnarea1503]

And its had little coverage or investgation in the media. But it does look suspect.

[@matthewcoombs3282]

Show us the evidence then?

[@Veaseify]

@@matthewcoombs3282 Northampton Town appealed to the EFL about Scunthorpe's decision to start seven teenagers in the game (including a 17 year old goalkeeper with no first team experience) but they actually hadn't broken any rules so it didn't go anywhere....

[@PassivesAbseits]

Hoyzer fixing the "Paderborn - Hamburger SV" first round DFB Cup match in 2004 should be on this list... He awarded to questionable penalties for the lower league team, which advanced 4:2. Hoyzer manipulated more games, but that was the only one including a Bundesliga team. It also had quite big implications, since the coach Klaus Topmöller never really recovered from this loss and got sacked a couple of months later... just to never ever get another job in Germany... which is quite insane, considering that he led Bayer Leverkusen into the Champions League final in 2002...

[@bananajoe4233]

Yeah, to this day, calling the referee a "hoyzer" gets you booked, or fined by the dfb if a player says it in an interview

[@PassivesAbseits]

@@bananajoe4233 booked? More like send off with a red card...

[@DrZaius3141]

It's weird how stupid that was. Trying to fix a lopsided matchup is not only potentially a losing cause (there's only so much you can fix without giving it up completely), but if you do manage to fix it there will be more red flags and if you do it in order to have people win with bets there will be fewer suspicious people. If I wanted to fix matches, I'd go for games that were already favoured to go a certain way. Betting when you have 90% odds vs. having virtually 100% odds in that same game makes a huge difference - and most of the time you either don't need any fixing at all or can swing it with just 1-2 decisions. And if your accomplices place large enough bets, the gain will be the same.

[@PassivesAbseits]

@@DrZaius3141 Well... they started with minor league games and got greedy. You will probably make more money fixing one Cup Upset, then by fixing 10 90 % odds games.

[@lewisc9959]

Bro, in Eastern Europe, there’s football fixing every single round. 😂 the most fixed games are in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, the mafias control them all.

[@ronnyhuggins6250]

Alfie...1974 world cup qualifier between Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti.T and T scored 4 goals and got 3 disallowed to lose 2-1. Referee banned for life

[@rustug75]

In the build-up to the Argentina and The Netherlands final in 1978 the host decided to move a concert/festival into the square in front the hotel where the Dutch squad was staying and have the band playing throughout the night underneath the players windows. The Argentine worldcup hosts used every dirty trick to make sure the Dutch squad would get no sleep ahead of the final.

[@MJ-im7yk]

Also The former Ajax and Barcelona player has revealed that he and his family had been the victims of a kidnap attempt a few months before the tournament. He said several criminals entered his house in Barcelona at night and tied him and his family up at gunpoint. The experience changed his attitude to life and was part of the reason he decided not to play in the World Cup.

[@prakharkumarsingh9720]

We need more video topics like this Alfie. Amazing as always

[@Fercho885]

If youre doing a second part you have to see the case of union magdalena and fortaleza in the colombian second division. It happened last year and is really an obvious case of matchfixing if you watch the last minutes of the game between llaneros and union, literally llaneros players stoped moving it was like they had their remote disconected.

[@timokarff6162]

Then, you could also pay attention to SV Elversberg v. FSV Frankfurt (German Regionalliga Südwest), just a few weeks ago...

[@adambaker8689]

Sadly, just 7 examples doesn't seem anywhere near enough. Great vid.

[@Artax-jv8zt]

Thank you for another interesting video. Other channels only focus on mainstream football (with boring and obvious insight). You provide stories from around time and space that I rarely have a clue about.

[@paulonvula6495]

Just a brilliant piece of work as always. Love the humor you put into your works. Pure excellence!

[@steel4o]

Honorable mention : possibly every single game in Bulgaria for the past 30 years...

[@piccolo_bsc]

So what you're saying is Bulgarian football is basically Wrestling.

[@lucaslonchampt613]

An unusually clickbaity title for HITC Sevens? Alright, you got my attention

[@soundscape26]

Title and thumbnail no less.

[@MattSaysHello]

Great video Alfie! Appreciate all the work that goes in to producing these deep dives.

[@mafiousbj]

Alfie! What about some "unnoficial" uses of technology (specially stadiums giant screens) to aid refereeing decisions before the VAR was implemented. I remember Elizondo (the referee of the World Cup 2006 final) said he saw the Zidane headbutt on the stadium screens, but I'm not sure if it was the only evidence he had, I think a lineman saw it too.

[@TheEvapiiShow]

The lineman alerted him to the incident

[@e.r4357]

Should have included the Leeds Bayern 1975 final in this.

[@MichaelSmith-lx2dt]

Love your videos dude, currently off work with almost a broken back. Keeping me entertained 😊

[@QueerChica]

Anyone who also knows cycling as well as footy knows that Bernard Tapie always had form for being dodgy. When he ran Marseille, it was essentially business as usual x

[@esior8284]

Alfie I have to say, as a Pole, I'm impressed with your Polish pronounciation, especially with the way you said ŁKS. Other Englishmen should take Polish lessons from you

[@Nic_Holas]

I applaud the effort, great job.

[@GreekHouseEffect]

It was so good that I didn't know what he was talking about initially haha

[@kurtsudheim825]

He's quit good with MOST of his foreign pronunciations, I just heard a few the other week, but then he gets some badly wrong

[@TheFrankiemonkey]

@@kurtsudheim825 The worst was his pronunciation of the Bolton suburb of Horwich

[@nicolinzini520]

Does it rhyme with Norwich?

[@alexandrereginatto4420]

It's worth mentioning that the World Cup with 48 teams will make fixing the result of the last match a thing again since it's rumored to feature 3-team groups.

[@toph8298]

Roma bribed the referee against Dundee United in second leg of the 1984 European Cup semi-final after losing the away leg 0-2. The details of that game in Rome still sickens me.

[@marco2sir523]

The Netherlands still remember Spain - Malta in 1983

[@manuelrodriguez2637]

Yep... Malta equalized so it's obviously fixed 🤷‍♂️

[@Eb-mq5gw]

How can you not mention South Korea - Italy in 2002....

[@brandonmartin-moore5302]

He says that at the end

[@GenialHarryGrout]

Bristol Rovers might have been worth a mention for their 7-0 final day win over Scunthorpe to pip Northampton Town to promotion from League 2 in 2021/22. There was probably nothing underhand about the result but it does make you think.

[@terrynash7612]

I know us Everton fans have a hatred for a certain ref who came out of retirement for one game

[@deantucker7840]

Big Duncan couldn't move without getting a grilling off the fella

[@deantucker7840]

Uncle FESTER

[@J_ZD]

You should do a video on rise and fall of football in Australia. Don't let us making the World Cup fool you. We've barely scraped into the tournament with luck falling our way (again) and we will probably have zero impact considering how average our sqaud is. The game is in poor shape and being at the World Cup is just papering over some massive holes.

[@man4437]

I've seen Australians moaning all through the qualification from Optus Sport's comment sections 🤣 no offense, but every step of the way there was people livid that people even thought they could qualify

[@MrTonyktn]

Womens team doing fine though

[@780d4]

Bro i come to these channels to avoid Australian football. The fucking headache it gives me i hope we get slaughtered at the world cup so everyone is fired from football australia

[@badjujuforever]

hahahahahaha

[@badjujuforever]

yes

[@BOABModels]

I wondered if you'd mention the 1973 European Cup winners cup final - I guess whilst referee Christos Michas was later banned for match fixing, this game wasn't referenced by UEFA. I know Leeds fans feel the game was thrown in Milan's favour by the ref.

[@thomaskendell8146]

Of course it was but I don't Alfie will mention it he hates us

[@nikhilsrl]

@@thomaskendell8146 you are not that important.

[@adamroddis3218]

75 too

[@Dave-hu5hr]

​@@nikhilsrl Yeah.. Just one of the biggest clubs in England.. 🥔😂

[@tomasjurogutierrez2294]

Some months later, Milan was humiliated in the European Supercup by Ajax Amsterdam and in 1974 European Cup Winners Cup final, Milan lost against FC Magdeburg (being the only time that a Democratic Germany club won a international championship).

[@Zoltanlouis2009]

Super video!! I was waiting for the Genoa v Bologna match of the 1930s. The league was decided by play off and coincidence or not, Mussolini had a soft spot for Bologna, when Genoa scored a goal (I believe to make it 3-2 to them) the ref said it went through a hole in the side netting into the back of the net and disallowed it. The match went to a reply and Bologna won. That would have been Genoa's 10th league title therefore qualifying them to display a star on their shirts.

[@SportsSkillsFun]

Keep the good work going... Have been watching your video for 3 years plus now.

[@jackwgunner]

Leeds vs Bayern Munich 1975? My dad hasn’t shut up about since I was born (he’s a Leeds fan if that wasn’t clear). And great vid btw 👍🏻

[@harold5337]

1975 European Cup Final- The ref denyef Leeds two penalty appeals as Franz Beckenbauer first handled the ball in the box and then brought down Allan Clarke in a tackle and a goal by Peter Lorimer was also disallowed. Leeds were by far the better team on the day, yet the referee clearly was in favour of Bayern Munich. The official was rated incredibly poorly by FIFA officials observing the game but was not formally investigated.

[@dysplasiagiraffe4845]

Referee later banned for life also

[@Dave-hu5hr]

WACCOE.

[@sidvicious05]

Well as brian clough once said to the leeds team you can throw all your medals in the bin as you've not won anything without cheating karma is a bitch😂😂😂😂😂

[@lalitthapa101]

Hope you do a video on the Argentinian world cup in general cause it's just sooo controversial and interesting aswell

[@mafiousbj]

Our goalkeeper (Filliol) had the number 4 on his back because the military insisted on having the numbers of the players given based on alphabetical order...they were some of the most square minded people that ever existed.

[@evanr1784]

Plenty of hanky panky going on involving Argentina, I watched a video of all their world cup exits from 1990 until 2018 last night and I noticed quite a few penalties given to them that were very questionable, just after watching the six that were awarded to them the past world cup

[@franco1188]

@@evanr1784 meh, the most contraversial is the one given to germany in the final against argentina that decided the final...

[@saajeeb]

Researchers are estimating that there are 3000+ football match fixing in Europe every year. My personal opinion is, it is more than that. Thanks!

[@davidpalin1790]

I can't believe that you suggest that Argentina cheats at football 😳

[@soundscape26]

Who could see that one coming?

[@moonlight_-.975]

FR tho

[@henriquesoares2343]

There was a severe lack of Angentinian scandals in this video, anything that involves Julio Grondona could have been included here no problem.

[@faddanick]

I was at Luigi Ferraris Stadium the day Genoa won against Venezia...Were the days in wich a young Diego Milito was rising in Italy...

[@RomaInvicta202]

I'd add two of Barca semi finals to the list (one vs Chelsea, other vs Arsenal) - no one will convince me these games weren't rigged; although I understand you only talk about games that were proven to be rigged

[@53rdand3rdShows]

Entire 34 World Cup was fixed for Italy. They should only have 3 stars.

[@robinhazell6019]

The World cuo Quarter Final of South Korea v Spain was fixed. I've never met a person who isn't Korean who thinks it wasn't fixed. I was watching that match on a bus in Thailand. I was the only nnon Thai on the bus. Everyone thought it was fixed. Spain scored 2 perfectly good goals that were ruled out for Offside.

[@alfonsstekebrugge8049]

I don't think it was fixed, but I do feel like Spain was treated badly. What it seemed like to me was that the ref wasn't pleased with the consistent whining by the Spanish team (it was absolutely ridiculous) and consequently ruled in favor of South Korea pretty much all game whenever a situation was somewhat doubtful. As the Koreans generally played pretty cleanly the Spanish looked like absolute bastards. What doesn't help is that this match is often coupled with the Italy match where the ref was poor. As Italy played with a lot of frustration (as they were absolute dogshit that match) there are some tough tackles and iffy situations on show. Compilations usually don't show how scummy Italy was, only focusing on retaliatory actions by the Koreans, who in the end also played like scum. Much like the legendary NL - Portugal slaughterhouse, it wasn't really NL or Portugal who started, the ref was just bad. What should happen, and this isn't done enough even today, is referees taking a harsher approach when teams start whining and just generally being badly behaved. You whine to the ref about everything you get a yellow card. You go on, you get a red.

[@jonpeters9148]

usa italy too,i used to live in seoul,an extreme nationalist culture and bent FIFA let em in the door

[@robinhazell6019]

@@jonpeters9148 Well said!

[@OfficialFingazMC]

A video about the success story of Port Vale since Carol Shanahan took over, considering we just won the playoff final.Her charity work, bringing in Darrell Clark, then the things he went through this season. Plus we were on a winning streak and 1 point off the playoffs and she voted to end the first covid season early....

[@samismith5476]

No.

[@alfredthegreat9543]

Weren't Leeds the victims of a dodgy ref in the SF or Final of the European Cup in the early 70s?

[@Bumchats]

Rise and fall of Charlton Athletic. Had some very interesting owners.....

[@EastCoastMikeP]

The Disgrace of Gijon drew some REALLY strong reactions from fans and commentators. Fans in the stands waved paper money at the players and chanted "Let them kiss! Let them kiss!" German and Austrian fans jeered, while one West German was so upset he burned the West German flag in protest. The TV commentator for West Germany at one point said, "This is a farce. That is all I will say." And sure enough, he kept silent the rest of the game. The TV commentator for Austria outright said, "Viewers, please watch something else. Anything else deserves your attention more than this." Even the local newspaper in Gijon had a strong reaction: The match report was printed in the paper's crime section.

[@krautrick16]

HITC Sevens has hit a new low.

[@davypatt5869]

Everton v Wimbledon deserves a mention in dispatches

[@billmiller2368]

Fun, informative and in your own style!

[@nathanjm000]

The craziest part of the Genoa one is that due to other teams financial problems Genoa would have been promoted even with a loss

[@Ulfhedhner]

Chelsea v Barcelona 2009 UCL was literally, "...a fucking disgrace". How Tom Henning Ovrebo managed to referee a game after that still boggles my mind

[@jacknelson927]

Cause referees never get punished

[@twenty-2923]

Refalona

[@StamfordBridge]

I watched this video just to see if this game was included. Not surprised that it didn’t feature, though, as it hasn’t yet been proven, even if it was bloody obvious.

[@RyuzakiTaiyou]

Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 337) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.

[@lalitthapa101]

When will the suffering end💀

[@acacia8261]

*day 1

[@jmfoxall7230]

Stefan Bienlich is greatest!

[@pinealdreams1064]

When will he get a job or hobby or life is the real question.

[@benitotommassi5820]

Chelsea v Barca was a definite fix.

[@DrZaius3141]

I always love when I start watching a video and already know that my home country of Austria will be mentioned. Let me just pass the ball back to my keeper before I can continue watching.

[@minihulk69]

Look into the 1983/84 European Cup Semi Final between Dundee United and Roma. United won 2-0 at Tannadice, for the Italians (again) to bribe the referee so they can play in the final, held at, of all places... Rome. The only time I'm glad Liverpool won the European Cup.

[@BenFinnMTB]

New Zealand vs Costa Rica 15/06/2022

[@JonasRodgers]

yes 😔

[@johanericsson7309]

Definitely an unusual amount of draws in the Polish Ekstraklasa that season, would love to know that happened.

[@davidpalin1790]

Who would have guessed 🤔 football being corrupt?

[@siroswaldfortitude5346]

And then we have 'Qatar', when the location of a whole tournament was fixed.

[@HarryGillard]

Alfie can you make a video on how a draft system would and could work in football as I was thinking about it the other day and would love a more in depth and detailed opinion on it

[@LeDardeursPalace]

Cruijff did not go to the 1978 world cup, because of threats against his family. I'm willing to bet it was Argentines.

[@basedelon]

There have been a few tales, 3 I can think of, as to why Cruyff was not there in 78. 1. He did not agree with the junta rule and declined to go. 2. The alleged threats. 3. Because Mrs Cruyff banned him from going after the Holland 74 team shared a jacuzzi with some scantily clad ladies.

[@scoobydoobydoo7401]

What about the European cup game between Dundee utd.and Roma (or Barcelona I can't remember) were Dundee utd won 2-0 in the first leg. Meaning Roma had to score 3 goals or more without conceding a goal .and They did exactly that. The game was clearly fixed and the president of Roma admitted he had fixed the match when he was about to die.

[@bernhardsonn8996]

Congrats to 500k

[@kurtbrendel6610]

This channel is consistently more insightful than Tifo

[@DTNenforcer]

Great video. You should do a video about all penalties awarded to Argentina in the Qatar World Cup, most of them, if not all, were controversial to say the least.

[@martinranalli8572]

What about Barcelona cheating Chelsea in the 2009 Champions League semi final second leg?

[@winglessmecha]

Arsenal, Manchester United and Manchester City are the Premier League's lapdogs. These teams can get away with anything from penalties to financial fair play rules.

[@TC-cx4gm]

I understand why it’s not on the list because as far as I know, it’s never been proven but Derby County’s 1973 European Cup semi final against Juventus deserves a mention. The first leg in Turin was marked by decidedly terrible decision being given against Derby which ultimately cost them a spot in what would have been their first and only Champions League final. Brian Clough believe until his dying breath that the game had been fixed. Assistant manager Peter Taylor was informed that Juventus player Helmut Haller had been seen entering the referee’s dressing room before the game and when he saw it again at half time he tried to gain entry, an attempt that was greeted with an elbow in the ribs by Haller. This is to say nothing of the game with Juventus continually kicking Derby out of the game with no response from the referee. Furthermore Derby’s Archie Gemmil and Roy McFarland we’re both in yellow cards from prebiotics rounds meaning a booking in this game would mean they missed the return leg, by some strange coincidence, both players just happened to receive bookings, with McFarlands being particularly egregious. This match is often not talked about when it comes to fixed games but in my own opinion this is the 1970s version of the 2009 semi final between Chelsea and Barcelona. Finally it should also be said that the possibility of a fix becomes ever more likely when considering Juve’s track record with match fixing. All this contributed to preventing perhaps and earlier run of success and another footballing miracle for the great Brian Clough.

[@indiekiddrugpatrol3117]

Fuck sake I just started watching the video expecting this one to be there

[@ciudadano1995]

Wasn't Derby County also involved in an equally "miraculous" comeback for Real Madrid cutting down a 4 goals difference? Just how unlucky can a club be.

[@indiekiddrugpatrol3117]

@@ciudadano1995 no we beat Real Madrid 4-1 at the Baseball Ground and then we lost 5-1 away in the second leg so still very unlucky. Derby are a very unlucky club though.

[@ciudadano1995]

@@indiekiddrugpatrol3117 thanks.

[@mrmajeika6101]

I think more games are fixed than we realise.

[@TiagoFerreira-zp9gi]

Speaking of match fixing, what about a video on "Golden Whistle" Case in Portugal?

[@tawongamusic]

I can relate to Bibs FC vs Non Bibs FC at school one of my funniest moments to look back on especially i remember volunteering to be captain of Bibs. how time flies Alfie

[@frankunodostres473]

well if you call the gijon game fixed, then you could say the same about the 0-0 between denmark and france at the 2018 world cup. it was the result that guaranteed both teams would qualify from their group, no matter how the other game in the group (peru vs australia) ended. I don't see why gijon is seen as a scandal while the 2018 situation was similar and tbh it is an understandable thing to do. I remember during the world cup qualifiers in 2018 colombia and peru were drawing 1-1 when news broke in halftime that both would qualify for the world cup at chlie's expense if they drew the game. and of course nothing happened in the 2nd half. these things aren't scandalous

[@1998Cebola]

Are you r*tarded ebough to suggest that not going for a win because you don't need a win as a team's match strategy and deciding beforehand between the two teams who is gonna win and by how much is the same thing?

[@nikhilsrl]

It is not if you gained from it.

[@theMoerster]

1:08 I, for one, am going to miss the Angry Neil Warnock Face.

[@slicklandy7819]

Brilliant as always

[@eoghanohanluainfay4807]

Could you do a video about which players might have succeeded more in a different footballing era?

[@drew9351]

City Vs Aston villa on the last day of the season

[@tonteawanen6249]

It looked sketchy I won't lie

[@msherif428]

One minute and twenty two seconds! That's the shortest Alfie intro I've seen in a while!

[@Tadaia]

Your "Adu" references never get old. 😂🙌

[@elikplimanagli9271]

Chelsea - Barcelona 2009 UCL semifinal game. The refree was clearly the man of the match.

[@fidelramirez5173]

yeah in the first leg where drogba and ballack didn’t get sent off and barca were denied of 3 clear penalties and multiple wrong offside calls 🤣 but no one talks about that

[@GoriguiMonke]

Good to see you cover Argentina vs Peru. It's one of the reasons why us Brazilians don't look at them with the brightest eyes.

[@mattstokes1189]

another great video

[@hamishscott1272]

Add New Zealand vs Costa Rica world cup play off to the list now Aflie

[@bury_the_elite65294]

Thankyou again for putting a huge effort in for this video Alfie. It wasn't just football that had match-fixing scandals in the 1950s, '60s & '70s. Here in AU, there were a number of high-profile match-fixing scandals in rugby league. Usually involving the ref betting on the outcome of the game (eg. the 1963 NSWRL grand final), or, at least, favoring one side (1977 NSWRL finals series). (I figured, being from Yorkshire, you might know something about rugby league, but if that's not the case, I apologize.)

[@kenrodger1631]

You forgot AS Roma V Dundee Utd in the European Cup Semi-Final (1983-84) season (2nd Leg). That was pretty major. Dundee Utd won the first leg 2-0 and lost the 2nd leg 0-3. The referee was later convicted of having been bribed by Roma. Dundee Utd would have played Liverpool in the final. Given the dizzy heights of Scottish football at the time (Bayern Munich 2 V Aberdeen 3, Cup Winner's Cup Semi-Final and Real Madrid 1 V Aberdeen 2 (Cup Winners Cup final), Dundee Utd may well have defeated Liverpool.

[@Tris2000]

Even more tellingly, the Spanish see Guruceta as one of the greatest referees ever existed. In fact, the weekly league table of the best referees in the country, is called the Guruceta, and the winning referee at the end of the season is awarded the Guruceta Prize. They still deny he could have been involved in such a scandal. :D

[@blueexpresstv5401]

Barcelona v Chelsea was probably the most blatantly obvious case of match fixing! Chelsea got robbed about seven times in that game alone on calls that were so obvious even the Barcelona faithfuls were totally in awe of what they were witnessing!

[@chukwudidaniel7412]

I am a Chelsea fan and that loss really hit me so bad, but there was nothing match fixing about the match. The match was just a case of bad refereeing. The referee loss control of the match after he booked Abidal, Chelsea played 11 against 10 over 1 hour of the match but failed to capitalize, loss their discipline and started feeling like the referee was against them even though if there was VAR at the time, Abidal red card would have been ruled out and yes Chelsea deserved a couple of penalties and the ref did a bad job. But its not match fixing. A referee cannot fix a match as big as a semi final between two European giants.

[@EmpressTouch]

@@chukwudidaniel7412 & Blue Express TV: SECOND "most blatant".

[@Robi2009]

1:34 - first of all: kudos for Polish names pronunciation; second - there is a Polish movie called "Piłkarski poker" (Football poker), loosely based on that seasons' final matchday.

[@benji274]

Leeds v Bayern Munich, 1975

[@chriswoodtoarsenal]

Should have included New Zealand vs Costa Rica this morning. Absolutely scandalous

[@timcorcoran9786]

Just saw your comment after I posted mine . It was one of the worst I’ve ever seen

[@JonasRodgers]

Exactly. As a Kiwi, the game made me cry, and when Wood’s goal was disallowed for garbett putting his hand on a costa rican players’ knee and then him diving on the ground, i nearly punched a hole in my fucking tv.

[@bandywallop]

Kiwi’s don’t matter though

[@timcorcoran9786]

I walked into work and someone said “how’s your morning so far?” poor bugger copped the full “download” of my thoughts about the game

[@JonasRodgers]

@@bandywallop thats blatantly racist and false

[@neilefc877]

That story about the bibs/non bibs made me laugh. Well in, Alfie.