Top Ref Charged

4th December 2009

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The heads are starting to roll as Polish football continues its crusade against the corruption so endemic in the domestic game.

Just two weeks after Michal Listkiewicz was charged with siphoning off seven million zloty from FA coffers during his tenure as president, news has broken that the former head of the Polish Referees Association has been detained to face allegations of match-fixing and bribery. The man, identified only as sixty three year-old Jerzy G., was arrested in his Warsaw flat on Wednesday and will now appear in court in Wroclaw. Well in excess of 300 coaches, players, refs and officials have now been detained in ongoing investigations. ...

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