Betting scandal

[Yorkshire Blue]

Little bit surprised that no-one has posted on this yet as the story broke this lunchtime.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/7987807.stm

IMHO this is a huge story, if it was premier$hite it would be all we would hear about for the next couple of years. Please don't tell me the goings on in the 4th division are below us.

 

[RobM]

I appreciate rules are rules but severe punishment for including your own team in a £5 accumulator is hardly going to rock the bookie's world.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I appreciate rules are rules but severe punishment for including your own team in a £5 accumulator is hardly going to rock the bookie's world.

I think he just got caught out when the FA investigated the irregular betting activities, but the other four are much, much more serious. Betting against your own team has to be one of the cardinal sins of professional sports.

I'd expect he'd be just fined, the others must surely be looking at life bans from football.

 

[chapperzUK]

Little bit surprised that no-one has posted on this yet as the story broke this lunchtime.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/7987807.stm

IMHO this is a huge story, if it was premier$hite it would be all we would hear about for the next couple of years. Please don't tell me the goings on in the 4th division are below us.

It is a huge story and the reason why it isn't all over the papers is money. Would you want to read about 4th divison player betting against his team or a international player doing it. Its all about the profile of the player(s) who do it. High profile stars doing bad things are what sell newspapers/magazines. Short answer is MONEY!

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

It is a huge story and the reason why it isn't all over the papers is money. Would you want to read about 4th divison player betting against his team or a international player doing it. Its all about the profile of the player(s) who do it. High profile stars doing bad things are what sell newspapers/magazines. Short answer is MONEY!

I don't think it is a case of choosing between covering the 4th division player who is match fixing and the international who is match fixing. To my knowledge no internationals are match-fixing.

The editorial choice is a choice between the 4th division footballers who are matchfixing and the constipated Benetiz saying something nasty about Ferguson for the 20th time this season, or Ronaldo saying he isn't going to Real again. I'm far more interested in the matchfixing scandal than either of those two non-stories.

In any case, the story only broke today so it wouldn't be in today's papers. I'd be disappointed in Southend fans if they weren't interested (and appalled) by it. This questions the integrity of the very product we watch every week. Why aren't you all interested in it? Or is the thought that it might be rigged to painful to consider?

This is a far bigger story than the Champions (sic) League.

 

[chapperzUK]

I don't think it is a case of choosing between covering the 4th division player who is match fixing and the international who is match fixing. To my knowledge no internationals are match-fixing.

The editorial choice is a choice between the 4th division footballers who are matchfixing and the constipated Benetiz saying something nasty about Ferguson for the 20th time this season, or Ronaldo saying he isn't going to Real again. I'm far more interested in the matchfixing scandal than either of those two non-stories.

In any case, the story only broke today so it wouldn't be in today's papers. I'd be disappointed in Southend fans if they weren't interested (and appalled) by it. This questions the integrity of the very product we watch every week. Why aren't you all interested in it? Or is the thought that it might be rigged to painful to consider?

This is a far bigger story than the Champions (sic) League.

Which is what I said. They have a higher profile than 4th division players.

Remember the Italian match-fixing scandal that had high profile clubs such as AC Milan docked points and Juve relegated.

 

[C C Csiders]

They will face life bans, apart from the acca backer, who will probably get a still relatively severe sentence. Tony Kay of Sheff Wed in the 60's got a life ban for betting on a game he was involved in.

Similarly, I feel the players who deliberately smashed the ball out of play from the kick off to win on the spread for time of first throw in should've had the book thrown at them to. Was it a Charlton game in the Prem?

 

[Thorpe Groyney]

Similarly, I feel the players who deliberately smashed the ball out of play from the kick off to win on the spread for time of first throw in should've had the book thrown at them to. Was it a Charlton game in the Prem?

The team that kicked the ball out was, surprise surprise, West Ham United.

 

[Davros]

in the Sun today.. but oddly not in with the sport, on about page 20... wierd!

 

[Uncle Leo]

I don't think it is a case of choosing between covering the 4th division player who is match fixing and the international who is match fixing. To my knowledge no internationals are match-fixing.

The editorial choice is a choice between the 4th division footballers who are matchfixing and the constipated Benetiz saying something nasty about Ferguson for the 20th time this season, or Ronaldo saying he isn't going to Real again. I'm far more interested in the matchfixing scandal than either of those two non-stories.

In any case, the story only broke today so it wouldn't be in today's papers. I'd be disappointed in Southend fans if they weren't interested (and appalled) by it. This questions the integrity of the very product we watch every week. Why aren't you all interested in it? Or is the thought that it might be rigged to painful to consider?

This is a far bigger story than the Champions (sic) League.

No need to get your knickers in a twist just because not everyone is replying to your thread.

 

[Napster]

Maybe the solution is to pay the players more?

 

[Pubey]

It just goes to show you can't be too careful

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

The team that kicked the ball out was, surprise surprise, West Ham United.

Relegate them to the Blue Square!!! This club are scum, end of...;)

 

[BoyWonder2]

They will face life bans, apart from the acca backer, who will probably get a still relatively severe sentence. Tony Kay of Sheff Wed in the 60's got a life ban for betting on a game he was involved in.

Similarly, I feel the players who deliberately smashed the ball out of play from the kick off to win on the spread for time of first throw in should've had the book thrown at them to. Was it a Charlton game in the Prem?

Harchester United did that on Dream Team.

Anyways, I think its shocking really. Betting on your own team to lose when you are playing. Surely thats linked in with match fixing. I'd be disgusted if this was a Southend United player that did it. I feel for the Stanley fans, this is very disappointing. Quite decent sums being bet as well, expect the £5 accumalater one.

 

[Manchester Shrimper]

"Mannix is alleged to have placed stakes to the value of approximately £4,000; Mangan £3,500; Harris £2,000; Williams £1,000; and Cavanagh on a £5 accumulator.":D

Cavanagh's going down in style at least!?

Wonder what else he had on his coupon.

 

[BoyWonder2]

Was good to hear that at the Accrington Stanley vs Chester match over the weekend the players involved in this, and that game, where booed.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Was good to hear that at the Accrington Stanley vs Chester match over the weekend the players involved in this, and that game, where booed.

They actually played?

 

[BoyWonder2]

They actually played?

Yeah, some of them did. A reporter from Gillette Soccer Special was at that game and mentioned it.