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UEFA to probe Reds' win over Besiktas?
UEFA could be investigating Liverpool's 8-0 victory over Besiktas in the Champions League for alleged suspicious betting patterns during the match.
German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung has claimed there was unusually high levels of betting on a high-score victory before the game.
The paper suggested Besiktas players could have been targeted by Asian betting syndicates ahead of the game which saw the Reds romp to a record win thanks in part to Yossi Benayoun's hat-trick.
UEFA's director of communications, William Gaillard, has so far only confirmed an InterToto Cup clash between Makedonija and Cherno More is being officially investigated but admits a number of other games are under suspicion.
Asked for his response to the article in Germany about the Anfield game, Gaillard told the Daily Mail: 'At this stage I can neither confirm nor deny the reports. There has to be a certain amount of confidentiality with these things because we could risk a source of information drying up.'
UEFA, who have made no contact with Liverpool officials, are working with Europol, the pan-European police force, to investigate matches that may have been fixed by gangster-run betting syndicates.
UEFA could be investigating Liverpool's 8-0 victory over Besiktas in the Champions League for alleged suspicious betting patterns during the match.
German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung has claimed there was unusually high levels of betting on a high-score victory before the game.
The paper suggested Besiktas players could have been targeted by Asian betting syndicates ahead of the game which saw the Reds romp to a record win thanks in part to Yossi Benayoun's hat-trick.
UEFA's director of communications, William Gaillard, has so far only confirmed an InterToto Cup clash between Makedonija and Cherno More is being officially investigated but admits a number of other games are under suspicion.
Asked for his response to the article in Germany about the Anfield game, Gaillard told the Daily Mail: 'At this stage I can neither confirm nor deny the reports. There has to be a certain amount of confidentiality with these things because we could risk a source of information drying up.'
UEFA, who have made no contact with Liverpool officials, are working with Europol, the pan-European police force, to investigate matches that may have been fixed by gangster-run betting syndicates.
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