World Players' Union FIFPro Criticizes Czech Second-Tier Club Banik Most

Czech second division club Banik Most has been criticized by the world players' union FIFPro "over plans to make its players take lie detector tests after a run of nine successive defeats," according to Brian Homewood of REUTERS. FIFPro said in a statement, "FIFPro is totally opposed to the use of a lie detector test and strongly recommends all players not to cooperate with this test." According to FIFPro, the players "were suspected of having been involved in match-fixing." FIFPro: "Banik Most's club directors ... are treating their players as potential suspects, even though there appears to be no clear evidence." FIFPro added that "the use of lie detectors was not efficient in any case" and said it understood that the players "had not been paid their salaries for March" (REUTERS, 5/4).