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BERLIN (AFP) - Robert Hoyzer, the German referee at the centre of the worst match-fixing scandal to hit the Bundesliga, is due out of prison on Friday after serving half of his two year and five month sentence. Hoyzer was convicted back in November 2005 after admitting to rigging matches for a Croatian mafia circle. The 28-year-old's revelations rocked the German football scene as it prepared to host the 2006 World Cup with the German Football Federation estimating the affair had cost them 750,000 euros. In April Hoyzer, in a deal with the Federation, promised to pay them 700 euros a month over the next 15 years, with that sum of 126,000 euros being put towards social projects. The matches concerned were mainly in the German second and third division, but a German Cup match between first division SV Hamburg and third division... [read full story]
