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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Every time I hear about a controversial goal in the World Cup I can't but help think of Declan Hill's book The Fix in which he exposed the degree to which match-fixing is taking place.
After seeing the disallowed goal in the England-Germany match, and the first two goals in the Argentina-Mexico match, it seems difficult to me for someone to argue that match-fixing isn't taking place.
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Match fixing takes place don't let anyone tell you different, 1982 West Germany 1-0 Austria, Germans needed a 1-0 or 2-0 victory to send them through Austria also knew this would send them through. Germany scored early on and for 80 minutes they just passed the ball around and neither team wanted to score another goal knowing they'd both go through, people may not call it match fixing but if it walks like a duck quacks like a duck them trust me it's a duck.
1978 Argentina on home soil needed to beat Peru by 4 goals, they beat them 6-0 and guess what the Peruvian goalkeeper was born in Argentina. They were actually supposed to kick off at the sametime as Brazil so neither team would have an advantage but some unknown reason the Argentina game was delayed, they may not call it match fixing but dodgy dealings happen in the world cup.