Rigged English League Matches

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2514785/6-people-including-footballer-Delroy-Facey-arrested-match-fixing.html

I am surprised that this kind of thing hasn't been discovered before.

Since sport these days seem to be all about money, why hasn't football been targeted before now, because whereas we have heard of jockeys fixing races, boxes taking falls, but a sport like football seems to me to one of the easiest to fix surely?.

/// The operation took place after police were tipped off about an Asian betting syndicate attempting to target games across Britain. ///

/// None of the games are believed to involve teams playing in the two most senior leagues, the Premier League or the Championship. ///

And why have these crooks only targeted lower leagues, surely there is more money to be has from fixing senior league matches, or is there still something they are not telling us?

[bazwillrun]

"And why have these crooks only targeted lower leagues"

maybe they thought lower leagues would be less likely to attract attention.....wrong !

[bazwillrun]

"why hasn't football been targeted before now"

remeber the last big footie enquiry, into bungs and payments etc.......cant be bothered to look up the details bu the ex cop who headed the enquiry got a few million and basically afetr a few years cam up wth ....wel, practically nothing, even though its been rife since footie began

[sp1814]

AOG

"I am surprised that this kind of thing hasn't been discovered before."

Match fixing?

I recall a big scandal a couple of years ago, but that was cricket.

In general it's not that surprising that we don't hear much about match fixing in team sports - must be fairly difficult to get a whole team to throw a game (as opposed to, say, a boxer or wrestler).

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// In general it's not that surprising that we don't hear much about match fixing in team sports - must be fairly difficult to get a whole team to throw a game (as opposed to, say, a boxer or wrestler). ///

Regarding soccer and that is what is under discussion, It does not require whole team participation, one miss kick, one rigged penalty, the matter of the goalkeeper deliberately failing to stop the ball going in the net etc etc, so easy don't you think?

[murraymints]

English conference league apparently....as with cricket it would appear to be large Asian gambling cartels at the root of it !

[douglas9401]

I did hear on t'radio that defenders were most likely to be recruited as their small mistakes can easily pass folks by.
Makes you wonder about the highly paid ballerinas hoofing shots on goal into the crowd well behind then looking a wee bit downcast though.

[sp1814]

AOG

"Regarding soccer and that is what is under discussion, It does not require whole team participation, one miss kick, one rigged penalty, the matter of the goalkeeper deliberately failing to stop the ball going in the net etc etc, so easy don't you think?"

Yes - that makes sense.

Although, I'd be shocked if it were widespread in the upper leagues, where there is already so much cash sloshing about.

[FredPuli43]

British online bookies have software which shows unusual betting patterns. Large bets placed by a few individuals on the kind of low level soccer matches which get chosen by crooked punters will show up instantly. It goes further than that; I had credit in hand for many times the bet, but a bet of £500 from me was refused. The point was that that was a very large bet by my standards with that bookie, so it came up as unusual. I think my largest bet ever with them had been no more than £100 but £20 was common It is no surprise that the crooked betting is with Asian bookies. 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 ?

[RJK02112]

If it's true I'm going to say because probably it is easier to get away with when less eyes are on the situation.