Sorry if i cant spell scandels its just i dont often talk about them. I was just wondering about how easy it would be to get away with it in the UK and how it all comes about if it does happen at all. I'd be a fool not to think it happens as it prob does especially about this time of season. Im interested out of interest really.
I was thinking of the gretna players the other week at Forfar. Surely as their all young(ish) men who like a bit of cash in their pocket. One or two of the rougish ones might have mentioned it even in jest to one another and from there maybe they would start thinking it was worth a shot. Whats one bad meaningless game in the grand scheme of things to them? 2k on at 9/2 on forfar would seem more interesting. I say there must be a load of it going on this time of year. If a team has 5 or 6 delibrerate non triers then they will suffer.
Does anyone have a link to the uk tables at the same point of the season as last and i can have a look later at results to see potential non triers? again this might sound daft but then again i wouldnt mind knowing teams/managers that were quite prepared to blood some youngsters.
Sorry i started this post at 10:30pm and have been on the phone to the girlfriend ever since. Feel free to add your thoughts or experiences of this. Maybe Diazel at Raith Rovers alocated transfer budget might go on their opponents in the next few weeks like the other year when Ayr went down. Maybe im just talking drunk crap. Soz
Yep it goes on , article in the Racing Post about cheats and how they are trying to stamp it out, not just players , managers refs at it , remember Macari manager of Swindon at the time and he backed a team that Swindon were playing,also the ref Hoyzer who got the nick, Cronje cricket man giving info. The best sports and easy way is one on one sports snooker boys or darts who bairley scrape a living, remeber the betting on frame betting silvino F was at it, what a idiot he should have been placing small wagers all over the place instead of lumping on hundreds on the frame score what a mupet bookies watch out for this, also there was some bent game years ago cant remember who was involved but everyone was lumping on a certain Scottish team at a nice price.
There is lots of potential for throwing matches also in tennis. Georgian player Iraki Labadze is allegedly in serious hock to the Russian mafia. Himself and a Croatian bookmaker have been in court in Austria over a loss he suffered to Mark Nestor. He was also involved in a very dodgy match in Holland in late 2004. I avoid him like the plague betting wise.
There have been other dubious matches but they escape me at the moment.
I usually find football players are murder at gambling Gaz but thats just my opinion and i only know about 3
Actually that reminds me of someone who played for about 20 teams in Scotland when at Ayr bursting his own coupon with a late headed equaliser v someone. Sanny McAnespie of Stranraer used to complain that the prob with his team was they were all to interested in seeing how their coupons were doing at halftime.
If i was able to bet on a football game i was playing in i would certainly try sort a wee bonus out for the team once a year. It would be too hard to resist. Getting on would put some off. Aussie state Soccer would be very corruptable and prob is no doubt. The players are playing for ...well actually they get more than some Scots div 3 about 100gbp + pw on average.
from mirror.co.uk Top Ten Betting Scandals
TOP TEN BETTING SCANDALS
By Graham Brough
BETTING scams have almost as long a history as competitions they're attached to. Here are the ten most notorious:
HANSIE CRONJE: South African Cronje, 32, was banned for life for match fixing in 2000. He bartered with a bemused Nasser Hussain to make a game of the rain-ruined Centurion Park Test. His gesture to forfeit an innings was hailed as a PR masterstoke. But he was motivated by a backhander of £5,000 and a leather jacket from a bookie. He died in 2002 in a plane crash.
FIXERS: Three Malaysians fronted a Far East illegal gambling syndicate. They targeted Premiership football for a multi-million pound betting scam and were jailed for 12 years in 1999. They were caught about to tamper with flood lights at Charlton Athletic.
ANGEL JACOBS: In 1998 amateur jockey Angel Jacobs was unmasked as an ex-professional. Got 10-year world-wide ban for 21 rides he took.
FLOCKTON GREY: Two-year-old racehorse Flockton Grey had a 20-length win at Leicester in 1982. Horse was backed to win by £200,000. But investigators discovered horse was seasoned three-year-old called Good Hand.
GAY FUTURE: Cartmel on August Bank Holiday Monday 1974. Permit trainer Anthony Collins declared Gay Future to run in a novice hurdle. On the morning of the race, he was backed in doubles and trebles. But the other two horses were declared non-runners - in fact they had not even left for the courses. Gay Future won by 15 lengths at 10-1.
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IN THE MONEY: This horse won Hatherleigh Selling Handicap Hurdle at Newton Abbot in 1978, by 20 lengths at a well-backed 8-1. Horse was Cobbler's March, a five-time winner.
FRANCASAL: Horse's 10-1 win in the Spa Selling Stakes at Bath July 1953 was set up as a scam to make five men £1million in bets. The conspirators replaced the moderate French horse Francasal with a better horse called Santa Amaro..
FOOTBALL: In 1965 ex- England footballers Tony Kay and Peter Swan and their Sheffield Wednesday team-mate David Layne were given life bans, jailed for four months and fined £150 for match fixing. .
RUNNING REIN: Lord George Bentinck exposed that a four-year-old horse won the 1844 Derby, a race for three-year-olds. The case was a landmark in the fight against corruption.
BENT REF: Robert Hoyzer, 26, was sent to jail for 2 years 5 months in Germany after admitting taking money to award unwarranted free kicks and penalties
Rise and Fall of Tenby Races
The tale of a betting scam which has kept horse racing out of west Wales for 75 years is to be told in Richard Lawrence new book.Fans of the turf have lost out since a 1927 gaming scandal made the name "Tenby Races" a dirty word among bookies and eventually forced the towns race course out of business. "The scandal was the biggest betting coup ever in history of the turf. Reputed to have landed a group of Tenby-based punters, jockeys and horse trainers more than £1m - an unbelievable sum at the time." said Mr Lawrence, from Brecon.
got this from Tenby town history
Read about this somewhere - thought it was here , but cannot find any more info.
The one that sticks in my mind is from last year's Finnish Veikkausliiga campaign when AC Allianssi were bought over by some mysterious Chinese businessman. The club appointed a new Belgian coach and brought in quite a few players from Belgian league football. The match that caused the most controversy was the Alliansi's 8-0 away defeat to Haka.
Alliansi finished 7th in the league but had huge debts and have been refused a license to play in this years Veikkausliiga. The Chinese businessman has seemingly disappeared as well.
As far as I know, above mentioned Chinese buizzman was arrested couple of months ago, but even before that he was well known at black -betting- market in Asia.
He was president or owner, don't remember now, of Belgian Second Division team Geel, and for those game vs Haka, coach and eight players from Geel played for Allianssi.
During the season Allianssi have played a number of tricky matches.
In Championship, couple of times their matches finished, ht/ft: hw/aw and they also made some money for me, placing the second team in their European game vs some Louxemborg team.They lost it on great odds about @ 5,00 for hw.
Btw, does anyone remember the game Andora-Macedonia , ft 1-0?
Someone placed a huge $ 200.000 bet for hw at Asian market, and celebrate the first victory of Andora in their international games, @ 12,00 priced.
UK Betting Scandles
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