Former football referees fined

A Czech court on Tuesday fined two former football referees 70,000 koruna (around 2,400 euros) for their part in trying to fix the result of a first division league game in November 2003. Lubomir Pucek, a former referee and the current sporting manager of first division Czech football club Slavia Prague, and Jiri Vodicka were sentenced by a court in Havirov, in the east of the Czech Republic. Vodicka also received a two-year ban from refereeing any games. Both men have said they will appeal the verdict.