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I watched it, found it interesting and not a waste of time. To each their own.
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Including soccer officials?? Easy there, Mark..... We all know who has to run the longest and the most out there.... Yup, the soccer officials..
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Yea, but for me, they lost their credibility a long time ago. Too much like Geraldo and a sort of Rolex version of Jerry Springer. Gag.
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I thought the interview was interesting. I certainly don't trust everything he says to be truth, but you do have to wonder how he was able to get an 80% win rate if everything he says wasn't true. Just sayin'...
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As Rut points out, intimate knowledge of the teams will give you that edge. I'll bet the players could do the same thing if picking between two other teams. I'd also bet Donaghy could have done just as well betting on teams he wasn't officiating.
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If you had watched the interview, you'd know that he did bet on many games he wasn't officiating. It was the knowledge about how certain officlals felt about certain players/coaches/owners that were major indicators on how the games would turn out. I don't think betting the spread and winning 80% of the time is easy in any professional sport. He had inside info from other refs. That's compelling.
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I guess I do not get the "He was not sincere" aspect. He did not need to be for me to draw a conclusion. Maybe I am just naive, but I do not think we have as much control over games outcomes as many people think we do. And there was an example where Tim D, bet on the Spurs to win a game and he threw out the head coach and they lost and he lost his bet. Peace
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I know that when we, as officials, get into "game mode", many of the calls just come virtually automatically without us having to stop and think about them - and that's how it's supposed to be. I wonder if that's what happened in this case.
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