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| The head of Greece's state-run gambling organization believes some domestic soccer matches might be rigged. "I don't consider it impossible that games are fixed," Anestis Filipidis, whose agency is known as OPAP, told private radio station Athlitiko Metropolis late Monday. "But I can't prove it." Filipidis said Sunday's bad-tempered league clash between PAOK and Olympiakos in Thessaloniki, which ended 1-1, raised questions about whether Greek soccer was "clean." |
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| UEFA last week sent two inspectors to Greece to investigate allegations of match-fixing at a Dec. 1 UEFA Cup game between Panionios Athens and Dinamo Tbilisi, and a possible connection with a corruption scandal in Germany. Reports of suspicious betting patterns emerged after the game, which Panionios won 5-2 despite trailing 1-0 at halftime. |