UCL: Referee for PSG vs Arsenal second leg served six-month ban for match-fixing

Felix Zwayer, the referee appointed for Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League semi-final second leg clash against Arsenal previously served a six-month match-fixing ban.

The Gunners travel to France looking to overturn a 1-0 deficit.

And 43-year-old Zwayer will be the man in the middle at the Parc des Princes.

Zwayer was handed a six-month ban in 2005, after taking a £250 payment to help Robert Hoyzer fix a second-tier match in Germany between Rot-Weiss Essen and Cologne.

The official was working as a linesman at the time when he took the bribe from referee Hoyzer.

Hoyzer later admitted he received money from a Croatian gambling syndicate connected to an organised crime group. He was banned from football for life while he also was handed a prison sentence.

Zwayer was handed a six-month ban, before he went on to become a Bundesliga referee four years later in 2009.

UCL: Referee for PSG vs Arsenal second leg served six-month ban for match-fixing