Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A referee who suspended in a football betting investigation has been cleared, reports the Canadian Press. Referee Anton Genov of Bulgaria was suspended by the Nyon-based Uefa (European football federation) after it spotted irregular betting patterns in a 14 November match between Macedonia and Canada, But Fifa, the Zurich-based international football body which has been working for the past six months with an early warning system, says it has found no evidence of suspicious bets.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 18 December 2009.
Filed under: Sports
Tags: betting, early warning system, FIFA, football, gambling, Nyon, Switzerland, UEFA, Zurich
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June 17th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Interesting read, think I’ll subscribe to your rss. Some trivia: Not seeing much of it in this Fifa World Cup but did you know that shirt swapping was once officially prohibited in 1986 because FIFA did not want players to bare their chests on the field.