https://go.oclasrv.com/afu.php?zoneid=1867845

Monday, January 14, 2019

A brief history of cheating: football's dirtiest tricks EVER

English
Standfirst: 
Some would simply call it gaining an advantage, but Marcelo Bielsa's Spy-gate antics didn't go down well in Derby last week. FourFourTwo recalls the beautiful game’s dastardly deeds...
Feature type: 
Pull quotes: 

Grenada quickly twigged that a goal at either end would take them through, so Barbados spent the remaining moments of the match defending both goals

He was suspended again in 1907, one of 17 Manchester City players punished by the FA for receiving payments in excess of the footballers’ £4 a week minimum wage

Coach Zlatko Cajkovski therefore told his players to throw their penultimate game, against Ulm

On Tuesday, Kiev’s players trained on a normal-sized pitch; on Wednesday night they must have been shocked to discover that, after 15 paces, there was the touchline

- Graeme Souness

Tapie helped his club win five successive league titles by spending millions of francs buying the best players, and hundreds of thousands buying off opponents

Racing Club’s 1-0 victory over Celtic in the 1967 Intercontinental Cup play-off remains the mother of all pitched battles

The silly Sky Blues fans reckoned that, by doing this, they could get the match abandoned and thus earn their team another crack at Tottenham

As a manager, he encouraged players to rub Deep Heat in opponents’ eyes, and offered Brazil doped water during a 1990 World Cup tie

When the latter’s defender Dirk Schuster said “a small car would have fitted between me and him,” he was barely exaggerating

Primary term: 
Include in the block: 
Video Youtube: 
Main Image: 
Marcelo Bielsa Spy-gate
Image Style: 
Landscape
Enable for Dagbladet: 
Facebook Instant Article: 
Sponsored Content: 
digiteka position: 
none


No comments:

Post a Comment