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"Mr President, if I am in good shape it is not because I play football. I would happily admit that I know absolutely nothing about sport, but I do know a little bit about match-fixing.
First of all, let me say that this report calls for a specialised law enforcement unit to combat match-fixing. Well, I am pleased to tell you we have already got one in the United Kingdom, it is called the police force.
Having said that, in terms of match-fixing, the EU has been involved in a few fixed matches itself. Back in 1975, in the referendum in the UK on membership of the EU, that was a fixed match, when the Central Intelligence Agency of the USA put enormous amounts of money into the ‘Yes’ campaign and there was a concerted effort by the BBC and other organs of the media to actually fix the result.
There was a fixed match in 1992 in Denmark when the referendum delivered the wrong result and they were told to go back and have a re-match until they came up with the right result.
There was a fixed match in France and Holland on the Constitution when they came up with the wrong result, but rather than have the re-match, actually they changed the terms of the game and declared it a win anyway. And, of course, Ireland had a match fixed when it delivered the wrong result on the Lisbon Treaty, and then had to go back and have a re-match until it got the right result.
So if there is going to be some kind of investigative body to look at fixed matches, I suggest we start with the European Union."@en1
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