Re: [nas] Wegerle: Mexico tried to bribe US to throw match

[Bill Quigley <billq@rcnchicago.com>]

At 09:32 PM 9/21/2002 -0400, SoSimonL@aol.com wrote:
>How could this be?  Mexico qualified with 2 games to spare in 97.  Why 
>would they want us to throw the last game?  Could he have meant El 
>Salvador instead of Mexico?  But then again that wouldn't tie in with 
>Dallas as the final qualifier against El Salvador was in Foxboro.  Unlike 
>2001, Mexico was on top of the qualifying table from the very 
>beginning.  The whole thing just doesn't make sense.


I was reading 442 today and saw that comment, and wondered about this as 
well.  At the very least, if this had been true, you know that the story 
would have come out somehow at least in the US media.  Not only that, was 
kinda pissed that Roy put down MLS.


Bill Quigley
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