[Archived] Match Fixing

[Kamy100]

Over the summer I did a lot of research about Asian Betting Syndicates, the conclusion that I came to was that they are very powerful and that it is invetiable that they are involved in fixing football matches.

Today EUROPOL have revealed that one syndicate managed to fix 380 matches (see link below), however I fear that this is just the tip of the iceberg:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21319807

Anyone wanting to learn more about this subject then I recommend that you read the book below:

http://www.howtofixasoccergame.com/

[thenodrog]

Kamy if you have become an expert on match fixing then stop messing about in mock outrage, put your knowledge to good use and get fixing the next 17 for us would you?

[pick32]

I'd check the rovers Brighton match

[mhead]

And that West Ham United match where we lost 1-2 and the linesman disappeared afterwards.

[Blue n White Rover]

Steve Kean's whole era was fixed!

[Kamy100]

Kamy if you have become an expert on match fixing then stop messing about in mock outrage, put your knowledge to good use and get fixing the next 17 for us would you?

On it although as Mohammed Amir is from the same village as my family, I guess my specialism should be cricket.

[thenodrog]

I'd check the rovers Brighton match

Indeed pick! Although who would be involved? Goodwillie obviously .. but who put him on? ..and under whose orders?

[philipl]

Several prosecutions and bans in Malta.

Incidentally, Ian Brunskil has a new job in Malta as Chief Coach of Floriana, the club now owned by the guy who wrecked Chester City and got debarred from English football.

The monetary figures quoted by Interpol are incredibly small beer.

I fear English football in general is going to have a massive wake up. I don't know if the websites which fleetingly appear offering fixed match intelligence to punters are simply a rip off (pay me $4k and I will tell you this week's fixed results; haha sucker!) or for real but in the last two years the games offered have gone from being almost none in England to about 50% of the games offered.

The only Rovers game I saw was Rovers 0 Wigan 1 which to be honest did not fit the pattern of a fixed match.

[OJRovers]

Kamy - what markets are the most popular for football bets? is it outright winner? score in each half?

I ask because in the book 'Bookie, Fixer,Punter,Spy' about cricket fixing, the main markets are the number of runs scored in 10 over brackets and the outright winner of games. There are not the widespread markets for spot bets on things like no-balls and wides etc.

So cricket players can influence betting when they bat slow/fast in the 10 over brackets.

Would be interesting what the main markets on football games were.

[Athlete]

Over the summer I did a lot of research about Asian Betting Syndicates, the conclusion that I came to was that they are very powerful and that it is invetiable that they are involved in fixing football matches.

Today EUROPOL have revealed that one syndicate managed to fix 380 matches (see link below), however I fear that this is just the tip of the iceberg:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21319807

Anyone wanting to learn more about this subject then I recommend that you read the book below:

http://www.howtofixasoccergame.com/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/077104139X/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=103612307&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0007436106&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=0HZWFVK1S5GS9HC8JP32

[Kamy100]

Kamy - what markets are the most popular for football bets? is it outright winner? score in each half? I ask because in the book 'Bookie, Fixer,Punter,Spy' about cricket fixing, the main markets are the number of runs scored in 10 over brackets and the outright winner of games. There are not the widespread markets for spot bets on things like no-balls and wides etc. So cricket players can influence betting when they bat slow/fast in the 10 over brackets. Would be interesting what the main markets on football games were.

It seems that the outright results and half time results are the mosy popular, but increasingly in Asia there is a huge amount of moneyt placed on things like a time of the first throw in, time of first shot on tarhet, heck even bets on a team not having a shot on target.

What I did realise is how powerful and more importantly how organised these Asian betting syndicates are. They also have reach/access and it would be churlish not to believe that they have managed to fix matches in the UK.

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

Surely the 2-0 defeat at Spurs last year stands out for one of our games that could have been fixed? No shots on or off target, battling relegation, unbelievable.

Or maybe it was just Keans utter incompetence.

I need to let this go.

[DE.]

If there's any Prem match last season that was fixed, it was our game against Spurs. A game where we not only had zero shots on or off target, but never changed our system in the slightest to combat this despite it being completely obvious to everyone in the stadium and across the world watching that the formation and shape we were playing was not working.

[Amo]

Surely the 2-0 defeat at Spurs last year stands out for one of our games that could have been fixed? No shots on or off target, battling relegation, unbelievable.

Or maybe it was just Keans utter incompetence.

I need to let this go.

Tin foil hat stuff. So you're implying that our outfield players were on orders not to shoot or carve out any chances?

[ABBEY]

IF any players , officials or otherwise were to be be proved involved .. Jail em all!!

[PAFELL]

Surely the 2-0 defeat at Spurs last year stands out for one of our games that could have been fixed? No shots on or off target, battling relegation, unbelievable.

Or maybe it was just Keans utter incompetence.

I need to let this go.

That means all players apart from the keeper were involved. Did they all make a collective decision not to have a shot on goal?

[OJRovers]

 

If there's any Prem match last season that was fixed, it was our game against Spurs. A game where we not only had zero shots on or off target, but never changed our system in the slightest to combat this despite it being completely obvious to everyone in the stadium and across the world watching that the formation and shape we were playing was not working.

 

That was the only game I can remember from last season where we played 3-5-1. It was obvious after 5 minutes that we were getting torn apart on the wings, yet Kean didn't change it.

[philipl]

Suspicion on 680 matches and 425 people in the game.

E86k per bribe.

And this is just Singapore.

 &nbThat was the only game I can remember from last season where we played 3-5-1. It was obvious after 5 minutes that we were getting torn apart on the wings, yet Kean didn't change it.

Didn't the 1 (Yak) get subbed?

[tomphil]

Surely the 2-0 defeat at Spurs last year stands out for one of our games that could have been fixed? No shots on or off target, battling relegation, unbelievable.

Or maybe it was just Keans utter incompetence.

I need to let this go.

That game had Gary Neville, Glenn Hoddle and the commentators openly questioning the tactics that day. It showed the whole football world what a complete dodo Kean was, unless he was doing it on purpose of course !

[ABBEY]

Kean was either corrupt or inept .

[martmitch]

I could think of a few of our defenders last year (and this) who could be in on this....

[Plastics]

I wouldn't think so myself.

[CrouchingNunhiddenCucumber]

Tin foil hat stuff. So you're implying that our outfield players were on orders not to shoot or carve out any chances?

That means all players apart from the keeper were involved. Did they all make a collective decision not to have a shot on goal?

Kean was that inept I can see him using tactics along the lines of 'don't bother shooting wurselves, let them score for us'.

If a Champions League game in the UK got fixed - as stated today - then why not a Premier League game?

I need to let this go, please let me.

[philipl]

Why not a whole relegation?

[broadsword]

I could think of a few of our defenders last year (and this) who could be in on this....

I can think of one in particular, whose performances were incredibly poor.