please have a look at following sequence and let us know what you see. Especially the view just before the Trabzonspor free kick is used:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i2m5YHWazpg

Additionally I want to ask you why there was unusual betting activities recorded for any of the Fenerbahce matches that season. Is this possible?

I would expect you to investigate this deeper and not just rely on Mr. Alp´s opinion here. He has a lot of good points. But his Trabzonspor skin is too thick in this case.

Cheers,

berkant

I follow your site and commend you for efforts against corruption and also I e-mail Brian Tuohy on occasion. It looks like the Guatemalan player Carlos Ruiz avoided fixing a match and is receiving an award for stopping it:

http://www.mlssoccer.com/blog/post/2013/04/17/dc-uniteds-carlos-ruiz-receives-unique-honor-concacaf

Do you think they’re intent on weeding out fixers in that country or do you have a gut feeling this is just for show? I know little about Guatemalan soccer but I figure since it’s small compared to Mexico or America than pre-determined matches will continue onward.

Thank you again and I enjoyed your book.

At least, I will write these: Let’s assume we, Trabzonspor fans, care about the cup and the title only. Let’s assume we do not care the rest, just like you suggested. Let’s assume we are “about as hypocritical of a bunch as you’ll ever meet”, like you suggested. What have all those things got to do with the main subject of this article? Do all those “hardcore” “facts” change the fact that Fenerbahce officials involved in several match-fixing cases? Can you still deny that? Like I wrote before, if any Trabzonspor officials got involved in any kind of match-fixing crimes, I (and many Trabzonspor fans) sincerely say the same thing over and over again: “Do what you are supposed to do, do what law says (without changing it when it is “necessary”), relegate us to the lower league(s) too, with the others who deserve the same fate.”

I harassed this article’s space, and this blog in general, enough already. This is my last reply to this article. I won’t reply to any possible, further insults or any links, citations including names like Mehmet Ali Aydinlar and/or Mecnun Odyakmaz.

But really, if one asks me, there was never any issue to “clean up the sport” in Turkey, just have different people doing the same old same old. We know there’s still match fixing going on in Turkey, but nobody wants to do anything about it. Trabzonspor fans though are perhaps the most hypocritical bunch. They wouldn’t care about match fixing anymore that has plagued the sport, they only care about themselves and that’s it.

But really, there’s far more to this case that what you have been told Mr. Hill. I really hope you go further into it, because I think you’ll probably change your mind on a lot of misconceptions. This was never about match fixing, its just politics.

Thank you very much for your article.

You suggest that “the whole league needs to be shut down and cleaned out properly”

Let’s look at the words of former Trabzonspor coach Şenol Güneş on 3rd May 2012. He said:

“No need to talk about football anymore. In order to save the upcoming years, we have to freeze the whole league and revise it entirely”

“There is an invisible danger. Justice is damaged. If you are strong, then you are right these days. Here we black the future of our children out. How can I say my son that “be fair, do not riot against the injustice against you, all these will past”? No, I can not say that.”

and much more…

I wish you could have a chance to meet him in Turkey. He is the one and only football man that has the courage to talk about the issue martially.

Next time I hope…

Thank you…

US Embassy cable indicates active Turkish government involvement in Turkish football… http://uefaawareness.com/post/12816884657/us-embassy-cable-indicates-active-turkish-government

FURTHER SIGNS OF POLITICAL MEDDLING IN TURKISH FOOTBALL?… http://uefaawareness.com/post/16149752936/further-signs-of-political-meddling-in-turkish

SWEPT UNDER THE RUG: THE EVIDENCE AGAINST TRABZONSPOR
http://uefaawareness.com/post/17294439393/swept-under-the-rug-the-evidence-against-trabzonspor

Today I learned that Radyo Televizyon Ust Kurulu (RTUK) -Radio Television Supreme Commission- in Turkey fined Kackar TV, which broadcasted the match fixing panel in Trabzon, 12,000 TL for “stirring up (public opinion)”, “humiliating people” and “ridiculing the institutions”. Complaintive: Fenerbahce FC (who else?). As you know, your speech was part of the same panel. I just wanted to let you know how badly you were misinformed by Trabzonspor fans and what you really did with all those altered comments/thoughts of yours . Bad Declan, bad Declan