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LONDON -- Despite a ruling damaging to his already tarnished image, Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone won a multimillion-dollar case at Londons High Court Thursday relating to the sale of F1 in 2005. The case was dismissed but the judge said it had nevertheless been a corrupt deal and questioned Ecclestones honesty. "Even ... making allowances for the lapse of time and Mr Ecclestones age, I am afraid that I find it impossible to regard him as a reliable or truthful witness," judge Guy Newey said. A former F1 shareholder, German media company Constantin Medien, had sued Ecclestone and other defendants for up to $144 million, claiming F1 was undervalued at the time of the sale to investment group CVC Capital Partners. The 83-year-old Ecclestone was accused of entering into a "corrupt agreement" with German banker Gerhard Gribkowsky to facilitate the sale of Formula One Group to a buyer chosen by him. The High Court said the deal was corrupt, but ruled that Constantin Medien did not lose out as a result. "No loss to Constantin has been shown to have been caused by the corrupt arrangement with Dr Gribkowsky," the judge said in his conclusions. "That fact is fatal to the claim." During the trial, which ran from October to December last year, Constantin Mediens lawyers said that payments totalling about 27 million pounds ($45 million) were made to Gribkowsky at the instigation of Ecclestone. Gribkowsky, who was in charge of selling German bank BayernLBs 47-per cent stake in F1 to CVC, has already been found guilty of corruption, tax evasion and breach of trust and is serving an 8 1/2-year prison sentence. Ecclestone acknowledged during Gribkowskys trial that he made the payment to avoid being reported by the banker to authorities over his tax affairs. "The payments were a bribe. They were made because Mr Ecclestone had entered into a corrupt agreement with Dr Gribkowsky in May 2005 under which Dr Gribkowsky was to be rewarded for facilitating the sale of BLBs shares in the Formula One group to a buyer acceptable to Mr Ecclestone," the judge said. Constantin said it would appeal the decision. "The judge ruled against Constantin essentially on technical grounds -- including extremely complicated questions of German law which is the governing law in the case -- and Constantin will be appealing those findings," said lawyer Keith Oliver, head of commercial fraud litigation at Peters and Peters Solicitors. Ecclestone is also facing trial in Germany. He is charged with bribery and incitement to breach of trust connected with the payment to Gribkowsky. The trial will begin on April 24 and is set to run until Sept. 16. Bribery convictions can result in prison sentences ranging from three months to 10 years in Germany. 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Our fans expect a lot of us and thats great.But the biggest thing is to get behind us and support us and help us achieve that. We need everyone pushing together. A 19-year-old Darren Fletcher scores for Scotland against Lithuania in October, 2003 We need Hampden rocking, we need to make it a fortress, a place that teams dont like to come.Thats a combination of us going out there and setting a tempo and the fans getting behind us as well. Watch NOW TV Watch Sky Sports for just ￡6.99. No contract. Look, we are going in to win the game as we do every game.dddddddddddd We have always got a game plan to win.We are expected to win and to take the game to the opposition, and we will do that, but we do have to be cautious as well. Its a long 90 minutes. Fletcher will make his 75th international appearance against the team that were on the receiving end of his first Scotland goal.The-then 19-year-old volleyed home the only goal of a tight contest in October 2003, which set up a European Championship play-off against Holland.Fletcher added: Its one of five goals so its high up there, to score on your home debut, to come off the bench and score a winner to take you to the play-offs, it was a fantastic moment. We need Hampden rocking, we need to make it a fortress, a place that teams dont like to come. Darren Fletcher I look back on it with great pride when I see it. I will look back on these things at the end of my career but right now its all about qualifying, thats what all my energy and focus are going on.You can watch Englands tour of Bangladesh, plus Premier League football and the Japan Grand Prix on Sky Sports. Upgrade now and enjoy three months at half price! 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