{"id":987,"date":"2006-04-04T08:40:28","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2006-04-04T08:40:28","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:40:28","slug":"nigerian-referees-given-permission-to-take-bribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/nigerian-referees-given-permission-to-take-bribes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian referees given permission to take bribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soccernet.espn.go.com\/news\/story?id=363449&#038;cc=5901\">Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We know match officials are offered money or anything to influence matches and they can accept it,&#8221; [Fanny Amun, acting Secretary-General of the Nigerian Football Association] told Reuters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Amun first made the statement earlier in the week to a football seminar in the capital Abuja, prompting protests from other officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Referees should only pretend to fall for the bait, but make sure the result doesn&#8217;t favour those offering the bribe,&#8221; Amun said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/50621\">MeFi<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: &#8220;We know match officials are offered money or anything to influence matches and they can accept it,&#8221; [Fanny Amun, acting Secretary-General of the Nigerian Football Association] told Reuters on Friday. Amun first made the statement earlier in the week to a football seminar in the capital Abuja, prompting protests from other officials. &#8220;Referees should only pretend to fall for the bait, but make sure the result doesn&#8217;t favour those offering the bribe,&#8221; Amun said. [via MeFi]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-wtf","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-fV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}