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gunneradt said:
what? Pakistan cricketers involved in shady match fixing, corruption and now murder - surely not.

You've got no way of knowing that. If they're not sure how Woolmer died, it makes sense for them to talk to people who were with him before he died.
 
I was hoping he died whilst hoovering up some of that high grade cocaine and doing some young lady up the rear end whilst girating to some ragga.
 
Did I miss a scene ?

Not making as much sense as it should. 'kin weird.


And surely you don't 'buy' the coach in match fixing, you want the key players - that media idea has to be bo11ocks . . . but who would have a motive . . .
 
I recon the south africans will forfiet there match with australia. A few of the older ones were close to bob.

What a goddam nightmare. Loved the man and his attitude. Should have coached England from this summer.
 
Daily Star article

Murder by Match Fix Mafia

22/03/07

TRAGIC cricket coach Bob Woolmer was murdered by match-fixers eager to “silence” him, it was claimed yesterday.

Police in Kingston, Jamaica, where the ex-England batsman was found dead on Sunday, are probing reports poison traces were found in his vomit- and blood-splattered hotel room.

One police source said there were “strong indications” that he was murdered. Another said murder was “likely”.

And a police spokesman confirmed they are now treating the Pakistan coach’s death as “suspicious”.

Former Pakistan bowler Sarfraz Nawaz claimed a “match-fixing mafia” killed the team boss to stop him naming names about corruption in the game in an upcoming book.

Security around the rest of the Pakistan team has been stepped up.
“Woolmer’s death has some connection with the match-fixing mafia,” said Sarfraz, 58.

“I’ve been saying for the last four days that Woolmer’s death is not natural, but it’s murder.”

Yesterday it emerged that Woolmer had two unexplained scratches on his neck and blood on his cheek and eyes.

Sources said vomit was found on walls of his 12th-floor room in “unusually high” places, indicating a possible struggle.

Last night a 10-man forensics unit continued to search for clues in the room.
Woolmer, 58, was in charge of Pakistan’s disastrous World Cup bid when he died.

The side had been one of the pre-tournament favourites, but defeats against the West Indies and – in one of the sport’s biggest-ever upsets – minnows Ireland saw them knocked out in the group stages.

Reports said there was a massive bust-up in the camp following that humiliating defeat, which was greeted with uproar back in Pakistan, with protesters burning effigies of Woolmer in the streets.

Yesterday’s dramatic developments began when Jamaican police deputy commissioner Mark Shields revealed that a post-mortem on Woolmer’s body had failed to reveal how he had died.

He said: “The cause of death was inconclusive.

“Having met with the pathologist, other medical personnel and investigators, there is now sufficient information to continue a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr Woolmer, which we are now treating as suspicious.

“We have already informed the Woolmer family of this development.”

But Sarfraz shocked the cricket world by declaring: “The theory going around in West Indies police circles is that Woolmer might have been killed by those who wanted to silence him on the issue of match fixing.”

Woolmer was also in charge of South Africa in 2000 when their captain Hansie Cronje was kicked out of the game for match fixing. Initial reports on Sunday indicated that married father-of-two Woolmer was found unconscious, and possibly already dead, in his hotel bathroom by a maid.

There was froth around his open mouth, blood on the floor, vomit on the walls and signs of diarrhoea.

But asked at the press conference if he was saying that Woolmer had been murdered, former Scotland Yard detective Shields said: “No, we are not saying that.”

He added: “When we get the results back from the pathologist we’ll go to the coroner and then we can decide what to do next.”

He said there were “no suspects” in their investigation.

Pakistan’s team spokesman Pervez Mir said: “Obviously ‘suspicious’ could be anything at this moment.

“It could be something serious, it could be something not serious. We have a man who is down and we don’t know the reason why.”

Woolmer’s widow, Gill, discounted the conspiracy theories in a TV interview.
She said he was depressed over the defeat by Ireland. “The Pakistani team’s poor performance affected him,” she added.

The Pakistan cricketers have been ordered to stay in Kingston until tomorrow while the investigation continues.

The team dedicated their final match in the tournament yesterday against Zimbabwe to Woolmer’s memory. Both sides wore black armbands and held a minute’s silence before the game.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news_detail.html?sku=1431
 
Match fixing = lots of cash.
That can get the murder if you are making so much you don't want it to stop or you face prison if he was about to open his trap.

I can see a whole pile of trouble coming soon.
 
Lock&Light said:
For God's sake, Jazzz. I've always doubted your sources but The Daily Star! :confused:
I thought the conspiracy nut was going to bleat on about Woolmer being murdered by a CIA neck-wringing team because he planned to take O. Bin Laden's XI on a tour of North Korea.
 
Lock&Light said:
For God's sake, Jazzz. I've always doubted your sources but The Daily Star! :confused:
Well, yes point taken.

But it was carrying that article before the autopsy declared murder, and you can't sneeze at Sarfraz Nawaz.
 
Jazzz said:
Well, yes point taken.

But it was carrying that article before the autopsy declared murder, and you can't sneeze at Sarfraz Nawaz.

Was he vaccinated just before he had his neck broken, Jazzz?

Or were there hologram black ops helicopters flying nearby??

Is there a rense.com video available yet?

Let us know if you find one of your theories Jazzz, seriously... this wasn't just suicide, you know?

I reckon it was an inside job.

:(
 
supposedly he had told a journalist that he had a manuscript for his book that 'would blow the whole thing open' in terms of match fixing.

supposedly there is a team photo a few hours after he had this conversation where pretty much every pakistan player is looking down at the floor or looking perturbed, like they had all just heard something awful.

i find it strange that cronje died on a cargo plane as the only passenger (creepy) and that woolmer was instantly bumped off when it was known he was going to blow the lid.

cricket unfortunately, is bent.
 
jugularvein said:
supposedly he had told a journalist that he had a manuscript for his book that 'would blow the whole thing open' in terms of match fixing.

supposedly there is a team photo a few hours after he had this conversation where pretty much every pakistan player is looking down at the floor or looking perturbed, like they had all just heard something awful.

i find it strange that cronje died on a cargo plane as the only passenger (creepy) and that woolmer was instantly bumped off when it was known he was going to blow the lid.

cricket unfortunately, is bent.
The question is... how rotten is it?

:( :( :(

The question almost doesn't bear thinking about, cricket, corrupt? Dear god please no.
 
Biffo said:
From above link, if one reads far enough:

Meanwhile, The Daily Telegraph has carried extracts from an email Woolmer sent to an unnamed Pakistani journalist, in which he describes an outline for another book he had planned to write.

"I am going to write a book on my tenure as Pakistan coach. I shall only start after the World Cup," it read.

"I believe, regardless of the money, the story is worth telling, has to be told and in a correct way.

"I am not a name and shame guy, just the honest facts. Let the punter make up his mind, etc."
 
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