The most fascinating thing about the story of the German match fixing referee is not that he trousered 45 grand. Nope, it’s that he accepted text message bribes from his fellow crims at half time during the game. But, I wonder, what do other refs get texted at half time? Do they, like the rest of us, get texts bemoaning the lack of attacking play or complaining about 3-5-1 when 4-4-2 would be better? One can only speculate…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/4445896.stm