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I addressed rigged English league matches in an early post and this is one of the answers that I received:
/// And they will be on low level matches , where the players are more cheaply bribed; who could make it worthwhile to bribe one or more players who are on, say, £ 100,000 a week and when the teams stand to gain such enormous potential earnings or losses by a bad result ? ///
Well it now seems that it is not just the lower clubs that are involved but the upper league clubs also, and no matter how much money one has, there is always need of a little more for some.
I addressed rigged English league matches in an early post and this is one of the answers that I received:
/// And they will be on low level matches , where the players are more cheaply bribed; who could make it worthwhile to bribe one or more players who are on, say, £ 100,000 a week and when the teams stand to gain such enormous potential earnings or losses by a bad result ? ///
Well it now seems that it is not just the lower clubs that are involved but the upper league clubs also, and no matter how much money one has, there is always need of a little more for some.
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For a start, this isn't match fixing is it, AOG ? It is on a par with the old betting on the number or throw ins.
In the quote from me, I was talking about match fixing. All the English match-fixing reported is, indeed, at the low level matches; we are talking about Conference, at highest.
Is it being suggested that Sam Sodje is a top level footballer? I hope not.
The idea that a man tried to get a yellow card but failed, is pretty amusing, considering how freely they are shown. How stupid do you have to be, not to be able to get one?
He claims that he spoke to a Premiership footballer. Do you seriously believe that a Premiership player would get himself sent off for , say, £70,000 ? Apart from his being automatically banned for several matches, he has his manager to face, with the likelihood that he'll be fined a week or two's wages, and the complaint that being sent off could, may in fact have, lost the team the match. And the team lose his services for some weeks.
In the quote from me, I was talking about match fixing. All the English match-fixing reported is, indeed, at the low level matches; we are talking about Conference, at highest.
Is it being suggested that Sam Sodje is a top level footballer? I hope not.
The idea that a man tried to get a yellow card but failed, is pretty amusing, considering how freely they are shown. How stupid do you have to be, not to be able to get one?
He claims that he spoke to a Premiership footballer. Do you seriously believe that a Premiership player would get himself sent off for , say, £70,000 ? Apart from his being automatically banned for several matches, he has his manager to face, with the likelihood that he'll be fined a week or two's wages, and the complaint that being sent off could, may in fact have, lost the team the match. And the team lose his services for some weeks.
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/// Sodje and his brother Stephen claim they can even get players sent off - an event which can cripple a team's chances in a game - for between £50,000 and £70,000. ///
/// He even said he could set up a bet an entire week before a game, while his warned the reporter not to pay one player rumoured to be involved in fixing matches because the sportsman was already under scrutiny. ///
/// Sodje spoke of a meeting a Premiership player in a Manchester hotel room, as well as at the home of another to discuss a potential fix ///
Well it seems that the Police, the National Crime Agency, the Football Association, and the Gambling Commission, are all treating this far more serious than you are Fred, and regarding Sam Sodje not being a top level footballer, he can be classed as a top footballer, (as the Mail described him), since he has played in the Premier League, played for Charlton, Portsmouth and Reading and been awarded The Evening Standard's Player of the Month back in 2005.
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Quite impressive to me Fred, but perhaps you set your standards higher eh?
/// Sodje and his brother Stephen claim they can even get players sent off - an event which can cripple a team's chances in a game - for between £50,000 and £70,000. ///
/// He even said he could set up a bet an entire week before a game, while his warned the reporter not to pay one player rumoured to be involved in fixing matches because the sportsman was already under scrutiny. ///
/// Sodje spoke of a meeting a Premiership player in a Manchester hotel room, as well as at the home of another to discuss a potential fix ///
Well it seems that the Police, the National Crime Agency, the Football Association, and the Gambling Commission, are all treating this far more serious than you are Fred, and regarding Sam Sodje not being a top level footballer, he can be classed as a top footballer, (as the Mail described him), since he has played in the Premier League, played for Charlton, Portsmouth and Reading and been awarded The Evening Standard's Player of the Month back in 2005.
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Quite impressive to me Fred, but perhaps you set your standards higher eh?
AOG, Sodje was Evening Standard Player of the Month when he was playing for Brentford !
His career was : played for Margate, transferred for no payment to Brentford,then Reading where he played two seasons in the Premiership, in the first of which the club struggled and it was relegated in the second, then Charlton and Notts County. At times he was loaned to other teams by his home club.
Would you call a man who had played two seasons for Reading, in the Premiership, in his whole career, a top footballer? I certainly wouldn't.
Of course the police are interested. There is an allegation of bribery and corruption, though not of match fixing. As yet there is no proof that any of it being at the top level, but it is still crimnal activity.
His career was : played for Margate, transferred for no payment to Brentford,then Reading where he played two seasons in the Premiership, in the first of which the club struggled and it was relegated in the second, then Charlton and Notts County. At times he was loaned to other teams by his home club.
Would you call a man who had played two seasons for Reading, in the Premiership, in his whole career, a top footballer? I certainly wouldn't.
Of course the police are interested. There is an allegation of bribery and corruption, though not of match fixing. As yet there is no proof that any of it being at the top level, but it is still crimnal activity.
Yes, more spot fixing alleged. Why the Asian and Far Eastern markets are so keen on this type of gamble is not clear. Some bookies somewhere must be pretty green. It is obvious that a) the chances of getting the time or number of throw ins or other incidents are remote b) the market is open to easy rigging. The last one we had concerned no balls in, I think, a test match. The bowler was paid to do a certain number at a certain time. He made it so obvious, overstepping the mark by about a yard, that he drew attention to himself. Jail followed.
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