Referee!

August 28, 2014 6:56 AM

"It involved four international teams and an empty stadium, no ticket sales and yet the game was (open) for betting," Steans explains. "I sat and watched match fixers with a briefcase full of cash to pay the referees."
posted by josher71 (4 comments total)

The faux confessional style reminds me of the MeFi drama surrounding Hosni Mubarak showing up here to tell us about his experience writing other people's term papers and theses for pay.
posted by Blasdelb at 7:17 AM on August 28, 2014

How do you measure the amount of irony outputted when FIFA gives advice on how corruption can be avoided? Is there a scale?
posted by Paendragon at 8:19 AM on August 28, 2014 [2 favorites]

I really wish that Hosni Mubarak guy had stuck around-- it was pretty interesting and he seemed cool about it. What happened there?
posted by shakespeherian at 9:19 AM on August 28, 2014 [1 favorite]

FO, FIFA
posted by Drexen at 8:09 AM on August 29, 2014