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Originally Posted by dno
As the Italian football scandals of 2006 showed (and the book the miracle of Castel di Sangro had explored before) it used to be regular practice for, say, a Juventus to give a discreet payment to a smaller club in order for them to "roll over" in a game like we're facing on Saturday against the hammers.
Rather than do this I'm, tongue in cheek, suggesting that we're being much cleverer than the italians (who got caught and caused huge scandal) by using Ashton to give the Hammers much needed money and in return Curbs will rest some players and/or not exactly overmotivate his players on Saturday.
As Hot Chocolate sang - "everyone's a winner baby - that's ok".
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Ah. I get you now.
Apparently this still happens all the time. In Italy and Spain. Without any money changing hands.
Basically, when one team isn't playing for anything and the other team is trying to win a title/avoid relegation their fellow pros will have a word in their ears and ask them to "do the decent thing" They don't even consider this corrupt, just common sense. You scratch my back etc.