And it seemed incongruous when, last Friday, a judge released a key suspect in the mass European match-fixing affair.
This manipulation was designed to help Tom Hayes, the trader from Swiss bank UBS at the centre of the rate-fixing affair who was one of their top clients and revenue earners.
The club was embroiled in a huge corruption scandal, the famous match-fixing affair that involved Paolo Rossi, who returned from a two-year ban to inspire Italy to World Cup victory in Spain in 1982.
The Hansie Cronje match-fixing affair and Lord Condon's subsequent investigation into other possible cases of corruption gave cricket gambling a poisonous reputation but the industry continues to thrive.
That the second of those crowns was earned despite the combustible coach being absent from the dressing room for the first four months of the campaign, as he served a suspension for his involvement in the 'Calcioscommesse' match-fixing affair, only serves to gild the achievement.
It could lead to the preparation of lists containing falsified data and meant the information would remain available for longer than the 12 months fixed by law.The affair may not end there.
"We have to fix our affairs with the lawyers and with the [movie] producer that is in the United States.
Gesture politics: recognition alone won't fix Indigenous affairs (The Monthly) Megan Davis' piece on constitutional recognition from the December 2015 issue is a good primer on the subject.
America's mind is fixed on its own affairs, but thanks to Arafat, whoever wins the White House is sure to have a stressful first 100 days.
Conmebol eventually revived the tournament in 1975, rebranding the whole shebang and relaunching it as a home-and-away affair with no fixed venue.
