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DID ACTION BRONSON FIX THE 2006 ACC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: AN ANALYSIS

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One of the dirty not-so-secrets that hangs over soccer is match fixing. All over the world, shady underworld types pass envelopes full of cash to players, coaches, and referees, instructing them to make sure the game turns out the way they want.

It can be rampant in the game's backwaters, the lower divisions in places like Hungary or Finland or in any of the Asian domestic leagues. But it can reach high in places like Turkey, where multi-time champions and regular continental competitors Besiktas and Fenerbahce have been banned from European competition as a result of match fixing just in the past few years.