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« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2007, 01:02:42 PM » |
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I read that last night on the bbc site, it was barely a footnote at the bottom of the article and came with the proviso that all sudden deaths that can't be explained were treated as suspicious until they could prove otherwise.
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« Reply #16 on: March 21, 2007, 04:29:26 PM » |
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There are many puzzling key questions including: was it true the team had a major argument soon after returning from its loss to Ireland?
Who or what was responsible for the marks on Woolmer's throat? Why was the vomit in his room splashed in usually high places on the wall? Why was there blood on the floor?
Why was there no sign of a break-in in Woolmer's room if there was an intruder? Did he know the person? http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21424237-2722,00.html
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« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2007, 11:50:59 PM » |
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just catching press confernece i think they are confirming it was murder
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« Reply #18 on: March 22, 2007, 11:58:25 PM » |
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Someone strangled him jeez, this is strange.
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« Reply #19 on: March 23, 2007, 12:00:48 AM » |
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what a terrible world.
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« Reply #20 on: March 23, 2007, 12:12:13 AM » |
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 Caught the news earlier and they were speculating that he was about to blow the whistle on a match fixing scandal and that is why he was killed.
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« Reply #21 on: March 23, 2007, 12:17:00 AM » |
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 Caught the news earlier and they were speculating that he was about to blow the whistle on a match fixing scandal and that is why he was killed. Without being sensational that would seem to be a very likely scenario, the Pakistani team have been up to no good for years( there are pretty strong rumours in the gambling world that the West Indies v Pakistan match in this WC could be dodgy) and I guess this guy could have been about to blow the whistle. In a quirk Woolmer was also the team manager of the South Africa team that Cronje captained when some of those players were found guilty so who knows what has gone on.
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« Reply #22 on: March 23, 2007, 02:16:12 AM » |
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Absolutely shocking.
Poor guy and his poor family.
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« Reply #23 on: March 23, 2007, 11:49:09 AM » |
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This is all very strange.
Everyone has known that Pakistani cricket has been bent for a while (their defeat to Kenya in a previous World Cup is a case in point). If, as bobby1 says, there was a big coup planned on the Pak v WI Super 8 game, then losing against Ireland and getting knocked out of the competition would have put an end to it.
Security around the hotels the players are staying in is absolutely rock solid - all the players have said so. This means that whoever did it must be close to the Pakistani team. Known to them, so as not to arouse suspicion.
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« Reply #24 on: March 23, 2007, 11:59:47 AM » |
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as soon as i heard Mr Woolmer had died, i said to my boss thats very suspicious. Sad to have been proved right. RIP
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« Reply #25 on: March 23, 2007, 02:19:11 PM » |
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lets just hope that when they find out who did it the ICC have the balls to ban the team for the next 20 years from playing cricket taking the life off a good man just because he is going to blow the whistle on them for cheating and i hope they still have the death penalty for the cowards
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« Reply #26 on: March 23, 2007, 08:48:22 PM » |
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I think we need to wait for more facts before we start jumping to conclusions and calling for bans. On the radio today it said Bob hadn't mentioned anything about match fixing to his wife. Im not prepared to speculate on who may have done it,but it is possible it could have been a crazed fan.
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« Reply #27 on: March 24, 2007, 02:00:26 AM » |
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I think we need to wait for more facts before we start jumping to conclusions and calling for bans. On the radio today it said Bob hadn't mentioned anything about match fixing to his wife. Im not prepared to speculate on who may have done it,but it is possible it could have been a crazed fan.
You are most certainly right, we are just surmising really as it seems like something out of a film than a sporting event.
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« Reply #28 on: March 24, 2007, 03:50:46 AM » |
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I have onl caught with this after seeing it on the msn home page.
Again it is speculative but i must agree that matching fixing is a plausible reason for the murder. It is huge in cricket and some very powerful people would want him to keep quiet about it, at any cost!!!!
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« Reply #29 on: March 24, 2007, 11:33:37 AM » |
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Maybe im being naive but i would be very surprised if it was match fixing. All the matches that were suspected to be corrupt in the past have been 'dead' games. You have to remember that in Asia the World Cup is THE big thing,where we have The Ashes and generally place greater importance on Test matches.
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