Match fixing

[BillyStubbsTears]

I still to this day think there was a fix for our Play-Off final at Wembley.

The official team sheet said that Beckford was playing for Leeds, but I'm f**ked if I saw him on the pitch. I reckon he was nobbled by Honest Fu Manchu's Bookies.

[Hag]

I still to this day think there was a fix for our Play-Off final at Wembley.

The official team sheet said that Beckford was playing for Leeds, but I'm f***ed if I saw him on the pitch. I reckon he was nobbled by Honest Fu Manchu's Bookies.

Great stuff   

[The Red Baron]

 Football is it's own worst enemy. Taking all the money they do from gambling organisations and then being surprised they are run by crooks.  Nearly all run by Chinese and other Asians with disreputable backgrounds who don't care about sport, only making money. 

After the revelations about Cricket it was only a matter of time. They don't have to fix the result, only get sent off/booked at a specific time in a game. They only have to fix small things to make a lot of money.

The problem is that gambling is illegal in most Asian countries, hence the industry is in the hands of criminals. If you went to a bookie in this country and tried to stick five grand on the result of a Conference South game not only wouldn't they take your money, they'd report it to the authorities.

[Alickismyhero]

I was thinking that alick, a certain central player has picked up a hell of a lot. But I'm thinking thats because he feels he needs a break every few games.

Am I right in saying I watched a documentary on tv uncovering match fixing, involving video with an ex England international in an Asian country?

Thats the one! Re jogged my mind, how to buy a football club or something

Think that was to do with foreigners buying into the English game, can't remember what was supposed to be dodgy about it but there was something. Bryan Robson is the player you're thinking of.

BV,
Yes I recall that documentary now. Poor old Robo got caught on camera saying that he could arrange not only the purchase of one English club but two at the same time. There was one thing that Robo wouldn't do but I can't remember what it was now.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2017140/Bryan-Robson-seeking-legal-advice-Dispatches-allegations.html

[Belle_Vue]

New players daily, DJ Campbell now

[The Red Baron]

2013 has not been a good year for DJs, has it? 

[RedJ]

Dave Kitson's got to be found out next.

He took thousands of pounds each week to handicap Reading, Portsmouth and Sheffield United one player.

[bobjimwilly]

I fear this is going to get a lot worse. I just hope no-one from the Rovers have been daft enough to get involved 

[The Red Baron]

It is a concern when a player at this level is implicated (of course, he may be totally innocent). It suggests the sums involved are very large indeed and that the people behind it are highly organised.

[The Red Baron]

I still to this day think there was a fix for our Play-Off final at Wembley.

The official team sheet said that Beckford was playing for Leeds, but I'm f***ed if I saw him on the pitch. I reckon he was nobbled by Honest Fu Manchu's Bookies.

He was there all right. He just spent the afternoon in Matt Mills' pocket.

[The Red Baron]

I fear this is going to get a lot worse. I just hope no-one from the Rovers have been daft enough to get involved 

Not among those thought to be arrested so far. You'd be very concerned if you supported another team called "Rovers" though.

[Muttley]

What sort of bookie is daft enough to accept a bet on an event like a certain player being sent off which is obviously open to abuse?

[The Red Baron]

What sort of bookie is daft enough to accept a bet on an event like a certain player being sent off which is obviously open to abuse?

As I said before, it isn't your UK bookies that are the problem. In the illegal markets in parts of Asia you can literally get odds on two flies crawling up a wall. And then the bookies will do their best to ensure that one of the flies will win.

[silent majority]

Agree with that RB.

This guy, http://declanhill.com appeared at the FSF conference a few years ago and gave a very revealing talk about the corruption in Asia and how this would be the biggest ever threat to English Football, needless to say the authorities wouldn't listen to him.

http://declanhill.com/blog/item/uk-match-fixing-iii-five-more-matches-alleged-to-have-been-fixed

[Mustapha-Dump]

Look no further than Marcello Trotta, just saying!

[CusworthRovers]

Might explain the mystery why a team well clear in L1 last season, suddenly slipped to Sunday morning football standard and fell away

[The Red Baron]

Might explain the mystery why a team well clear in L1 last season, suddenly slipped to Sunday morning football standard and fell away

I thought that was because all their loan players got recalled at Christmas? That's the trouble with match-fixing though- you tend to see conspiracies where none exist.

[Belle_Vue]

I don't think it's too much of results being fixed, because that could he too obvious, saying that look at the prem this year everyone is beating everyone!

It's the smaller things in the game. But I still don't understand how even an illegal bookies, would take 10k for a player to get a yellow, the bookies would know it was dodgey and they would lose money

[The Red Baron]

The bookies (in this case Far East syndicates) don't make a market unless they know they can rig it. I think people are looking at this from the wrong end of the telescope.

[CusworthRovers]

Unfortunately all this puts the seeds of doubt in everyone's mind about everything footy match related, regardless of it being possible or not.

[The Red Baron]

Unfortunately all this puts the seeds of doubt in everyone's mind about everything footy match related, regardless of it being possible or not.

I agree. Though it is worth remembering that in order to actually fix the result of a football match you would need to have co-operation from quite a number of the participants involved. Things like yellow cards (or no-balls in cricket) are easier to manipulate though as they can be done by one participant.

[Highland Rover]

There was a match fixing scandal in the Singaporean S-League as far back as 2000 which ended up with 2 players jailed .

[BobG]

Oh come, come 1969! Our wonderful, beloved and ultra effective FA?FL have all that 'fit and proper person's testing in place. Clearly therefore every single Asian involved in English togger is as pure and white as the driven snow. Err..... Who said Shinawtra?

BobG

[wing commander]

Well bookies from whatever country aren't normally stupid...with what they were being paid it's odd how bookings in a league match with that kind of money involved wasn't noticed....I'm sure I read somewhere that Ladbrokes has said that bookings only attract average bets of a couple of hundred pounds per match..but  I accept there clever people..much the pity

[Sammy Chung was King]

The thing that has baffled me is,DJ is supposed to be only on two and a half grand a week,that's a comedown from QPR Wages,poor fella only getting two and a half grand,really feel for him

[Draytonian III]

The paper I read yesterday quoted him earning £24,000 a week ,and Blackburn having to pay him £500,000 while he,s on bail

[ravenrover]

Blackburn must wait to find out whether striker DJ Campbell, 32, is guilty of spot-fixing before they can cancel his £25,000-a-week contract.
According to BBC sport, taken from daily Mail both never knowingly wrong 

[Sammy Chung was King]

The paper I read yesterday quoted him earning £24,000 a week ,and Blackburn having to pay him £500,000 while he,s on bail

I Misread it on the BBC Draytonian,it was twenty five grand.