French footballer Thierry Henry said that he supported a rematch against Ireland, but hours after FIFA officially ruled out the possibility of a replay of the controversial World Cup playoff game.
The French Football Federation (FFF) has dismissed the Republic of Ireland's request for a replay of their controversial World Cup play-off game.The Republic pleaded for the French to offer a rematch after Fifa ruled that the result would stand. France striker Thierry Henry, who handled the ball in the build-up to the winning goal, had earlier said a replay would "be the fairest solution". But the FFF released a statement ending any hope of the game being replayed.
The French Football Federation (FFF) has dismissed the Republic of Ireland's request for a replay of their controversial World Cup play-off game.
The Republic pleaded for the French to offer a rematch after Fifa ruled that the result would stand.
France striker Thierry Henry, who handled the ball in the build-up to the winning goal, had earlier said a replay would "be the fairest solution".
But the FFF released a statement ending any hope of the game being replayed.
European football is reeling from news of a fresh match-fixing scandal involving nine countries and up to 200 games. German prosecutors investigating the manipulation revealed on Friday that 15 people have been arrested in Germany and two in Switzerland. A series of around 50 raids were carried out on Thursday, during which documents, around €1 million in cash and valuables were seized. At a news conference the prosecutors said that about 200 games were thought to be affected, including three Champions League games and 12 Europa League games. The investigation, carried out with the European football association UEFA, has been ongoing since the beginning of 2009. The betting scandal involves huge sums of money placed with Asian bookmakers on matches in Europe and players, coaches, referees and officials are included among the suspects. In all around 100 people could be involved in the match-fixing conspiracy. Fix On in Germany as Well? Games in at least nine European leagues are being probed, including matches played in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey.
European football is reeling from news of a fresh match-fixing scandal involving nine countries and up to 200 games.
German prosecutors investigating the manipulation revealed on Friday that 15 people have been arrested in Germany and two in Switzerland. A series of around 50 raids were carried out on Thursday, during which documents, around €1 million in cash and valuables were seized.
At a news conference the prosecutors said that about 200 games were thought to be affected, including three Champions League games and 12 Europa League games. The investigation, carried out with the European football association UEFA, has been ongoing since the beginning of 2009.
The betting scandal involves huge sums of money placed with Asian bookmakers on matches in Europe and players, coaches, referees and officials are included among the suspects. In all around 100 people could be involved in the match-fixing conspiracy.
Fix On in Germany as Well?
Games in at least nine European leagues are being probed, including matches played in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Switzerland and Turkey.
In the report to appear in the Monday, Sept. 1, edition of Der Spiegel newsmagazine, the Canadian journalist Declan Hill said his research had shown that an Asian syndicate wanted Ghana to lose the quarter-final match by at least two goals. Brazil went on to win 3-0 in Dortmund. Hill, whose book on match-fixing will be published in Germany on Tuesday, said three years of research had shown that a former Ghana international had acted as the middleman between Ghana's players and the head of a betting syndicate in Bangkok. The German publication said its own research had shown two matches in Germany to be suspicious after huge sums were placed on them by a Malaysian who has been convicted of attempted match-fixing.
In the report to appear in the Monday, Sept. 1, edition of Der Spiegel newsmagazine, the Canadian journalist Declan Hill said his research had shown that an Asian syndicate wanted Ghana to lose the quarter-final match by at least two goals. Brazil went on to win 3-0 in Dortmund.
Hill, whose book on match-fixing will be published in Germany on Tuesday, said three years of research had shown that a former Ghana international had acted as the middleman between Ghana's players and the head of a betting syndicate in Bangkok.
The German publication said its own research had shown two matches in Germany to be suspicious after huge sums were placed on them by a Malaysian who has been convicted of attempted match-fixing.
Former Formula One team owner Eddie Jordan believes Michael Schumacher will replace Jenson Button at the newly-named Mercedes team for next season. World champion Button joined Lewis Hamilton at McLaren earlier this week after the Brawn team with which he won the drivers' title was renamed Mercedes.
Former Formula One team owner Eddie Jordan believes Michael Schumacher will replace Jenson Button at the newly-named Mercedes team for next season.
World champion Button joined Lewis Hamilton at McLaren earlier this week after the Brawn team with which he won the drivers' title was renamed Mercedes.
Brenda and another Brazilian transsexual were at the center of a case involving the blackmail of former Lazio Governor Piero Marrazzo by four police officers who secretly filmed him having sex and taking drugs with one of the transsexuals. Marrazzo, a former journalist with state broadcaster RAI who was elected governor in 2005, quit his post when the case came to light in October. He took refuge in a monastery outside Rome. Of the four policemen arrested on blackmail charges, one was released, one is under house arrest and two are in custody.
Marrazzo, a former journalist with state broadcaster RAI who was elected governor in 2005, quit his post when the case came to light in October. He took refuge in a monastery outside Rome.
Of the four policemen arrested on blackmail charges, one was released, one is under house arrest and two are in custody.
The little people are allowed to feed from the crumbs of the elite's largesse, but we must not threaten them with indigestion. keep to the Fen Causeway
how cozy, always a warm welcome there... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
your point being? that i single out catholics?
strictly equal-opportunity!
actually what i was thinking was had it been a ploy of the religious/theocratic right to have the media focus on evangelical efforts to dominate US politics and various loons in that effort, while the catholics were taking over the supreme court!
plus how governments all over the world have given the roman church slack over the pedophilia, while allowing them to amass all kinds of untaxed wealth.
but for all i know this kind of thing happens in buddhist societies too... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Her crowning achievement is considered to be her translation of Isaac Newton's monumental work Principia Mathematica, with her own commentary; it is still considered the standard translation. Voltaire, one of her lovers, declared in a letter to his friend King Frederick II of Prussia that du Châtelet was "a great man whose only fault was being a woman".
Voltaire, one of her lovers, declared in a letter to his friend King Frederick II of Prussia that du Châtelet was "a great man whose only fault was being a woman".
she probably thought something similar of him, but would have been far too polite to record it for posterity. keep to the Fen Causeway
A team of scientists in Switzerland have restarted the world's largest sub-atomic particle collider for the first time since the nearly $10bn machine suffered a massive malfunction last year. Scientists switched on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the Swiss-French border on Friday after 14 months of repairs, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) said. The LHC aims to resolve some of the greatest questions surrounding fundamental matter, such as how particles acquire mass and how they were forged in the big bang that created the universe some 13.7bn years ago.
A team of scientists in Switzerland have restarted the world's largest sub-atomic particle collider for the first time since the nearly $10bn machine suffered a massive malfunction last year.
Scientists switched on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the Swiss-French border on Friday after 14 months of repairs, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) said.
The LHC aims to resolve some of the greatest questions surrounding fundamental matter, such as how particles acquire mass and how they were forged in the big bang that created the universe some 13.7bn years ago.
The widow of TV producer Aaron Spelling can afford to be patient for someone to make an offer on her 56,500-square-foot Holmby Hills mansion, the nation's most expensive residential real estate listing. The 56,500-square-foot mansion remains the most expensive residential listing in the U.S., and there's no price reduction in sight. Quite simply, wealth can afford to wait. It's a distinction between the very rich and the very leveraged in a housing market that has been in decline for several years. "You either sell it right away or it could take two or three years," said Jeffrey Hyland, who with Rick Hilton of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, constitute two-thirds of Spelling's sales force. "The sellers know this. There is not a sense of urgency."
The 56,500-square-foot mansion remains the most expensive residential listing in the U.S., and there's no price reduction in sight.
Quite simply, wealth can afford to wait. It's a distinction between the very rich and the very leveraged in a housing market that has been in decline for several years.
"You either sell it right away or it could take two or three years," said Jeffrey Hyland, who with Rick Hilton of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, constitute two-thirds of Spelling's sales force. "The sellers know this. There is not a sense of urgency."
