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Or should I say tsrif?
Yet.
Off topic, Forget bungs, this is explosive
The same individual, who used to manage a high profile team, had also fixed a game, Mr Pagliara claimed. The manager’s representatives yesterday described the allegations as “completely false”. In several instances, he admitted that he had personally paid the officials “bungs” to secure deals.
Having seen the latest video, some people are going to prison.
Cardiff City football club launched an investigation into a player transfer after auditors discovered evidence of unexplained payments, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/27/exclusive-cardiff-held-inquiry-into-deal-with-sam-allardyces-wes/
Those damn bean counters....
Who would win in a fight out of John McDonnell and Hilary Benn?
Now what was it that Big Sam said on the video....
Match fixing takes this to a whole new level.
Mr Pagliara, an unlicensed agent who was banned from football for five years in 2005 for match-fixing.
And which game was it that he fixed ?
I'm officially fearful for West Ham's chances this season
Just ask those Pakistani players, who were convicted not for match fixing, but spot fixing.
It will be a bit disappointing if all they have is the word of the banned agent, as all the rest will just say he is a proven liar and all round dodgy guy.
Panorama messed it up when they did the same sting in 2006, they got all the agents blabbing and got the cash ready to bribe a very very famous manager and then the story leaked and said manager pulled out of the deal.
But I think it is unlikely BPL matches have been fixed. Too much scrutiny. Lower leagues without the cameras much, much safer.
BlackKnight of colour.What can you expect from oiks.
I tried and failed to get my grammar school to switch from rugby to football. The head took little notice of the petition I raised.
I knew of someone who was earning over 600k a year, and he was fleecing his expenses for an extra £200 quid a month.
Sometimes it can be a power thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes#Measurement_of_the_Earth.27s_circumference
Just think, all matches are determined with a score of at most half a dozen goals, most times a single goal is enough to win.
The referees have the power to give a goal to a team through a penalty or to aid them as close as possible to the goal posts with a variety of means, of even to cancel a goal from the opposite team and to keep them away from the goal posts.
Then you have the goalkeepers who can be bent to look the other way.
Then you have the other players to play a bad game.
And finally the coatch who can sabotage his own team.
That's why I prefer basketball.
In that sport the referee has less power, and since the winning score is so high and with no goalkeeper it's much more difficult to fix a basketball match.
Also again three is big number of the over / under in high scoring sports, so again the ref can affect that by calling fouls / turns overs etc.
And no, that's how Arsenal always play for the first 83 minutes.
Just as we don't call the County Championship the ECC.
https://twitter.com/suttonnick/status/780882786299371520
Imagine how strong Cameron's position might now have been, had he extended his 'renegotiation' to 12 months, rather than three weeks...
A similar consideration might now apply to the timing of the exercise of A50 ?
It's not impossible to fix a basketball match, it's just more difficult than in football.
(Sorry)
Just finished reading a book I think you would enjoy, if you haven't already read it. 'Tribe. On Homecoming and Belonging' by Sebastian Junger. I know you have talked about the beneficial effect of religion on wellbeing. While this book is not directly about religion, it definitely deals with interesting examples of strong sense of belonging that comes from terrible external dangers, such as nature (for primitive tribes), war and natural or manmade disasters.
Hope you enjoy. About a 2-3 hour speed read.
If we want progress, there has to be risk. And that's fine, as long as people get to chose the level of risk they want to take.
That was the real scandal over the Space Shuttle: NASA had conned themselves it was a safe, production system, wherein it was still a prototype even to the the final flight.
You can bet on number of corners, fouls, red cards, yellow cards, ect.
Not just who wins.
A player can help you to get the right number in exhange for a price, it's another form of match fixing but still match fixing.
Say you bet 100k on player X to get a yellow card at match Y, and the player X agrees to get a yellow card in exchange for half of the profits, it's still match fixing.
Name names.
Edit: link doesn't seem to work but the title explains it all
BUT, I simply stated as an example of a footballer who has lost a lot of money on gambling. Michael Owen is another. Chorpa, Gillespie and Etherington being other famous examples. There was a well documented culture in the England team of a few years ago of footballers losing incredibly sums of money.
Point being even footballers on mega mega money can end up with bugger all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Behaim#/media/File:MartinBehaim1492.png
Did old Chris have this in mind as he departed Spain?
Labour continues to sprint towards the cliff edge...
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/sep/27/sam-allardyce-arrogant-clot-england-manager
"Whether that means he deserved to lose his job is another matter entirely and, even as a non-Allardyce fan, having questioned his relationship with Curtis more than once, it is still not entirely straightforward understanding what the FA has seen in those secretly taped recordings to warrant the guillotine.
Presumably, the relevant people have decided it is untenable for an organisation that stands in judgment on others to employ someone who just informed two undercover reporters, posing as representatives from a football agency based in south-east Asia, that it is “not a problem” to get round the rules of third-party ownership, despite the practice being banned in 2008. Yet that quote is referring to the fact that when Allardyce was managing West Ham they signed Enner Valencia despite him being precisely in that position. The ownership agreement ended when the transfer went through and West Ham signed him “whole”. Something similar happened with Manchester United and Marcus Rojo. It is not a problem, as Allardyce says, getting round it.
He should not expect a great deal of sympathy but in the grand scheme of managerial scandals it is certainly a few notches down from the passage in Joey Barton’s newly released autobiography about.......
Compare that with Allardyce’s response when asked about paying people to secure business. “Oh, oh, you’re not – do not,” he says. “I haven’t heard that. I haven’t heard that, you stupid man. What are you talking about? You idiot. You can have that conversation when I’m not here. Allardyce is so aghast by the suggestion he leans back and drapes a napkin over his face. Later he gives the man who brought it up, his long-term friend and football agent Scott McGarvey, another going-over. “You slipped up tonight. You can’t go there any more. You can’t pay a player, you can’t pay a manager, you can’t pay a CEO. It used to happen 20 odd years ago, 30 years ago. You can’t do it now. You can’t do it now. Don’t ever go there.” None of which really falls in line with the caricature of the man who regards rules as optional. If this sounds like a defence of Allardyce it is merely to give that part of the story some extra prominence given the Telegraph buried the quotes somewhere near the bottom of the 2,000-word article that has brought him down."
They where also involved in other match fixing scandals on the continent a few years ago.
Depending on your view of the degree of corruption within FIFA, that may or may not be the reason why we still don't have video replays in football.
In basketball it's much easier to call fouls on a team tighter, give them more free throws or get an important player in foul trouble. It's much easier to affect the score in a consistent and subtle manner.
The world top basketball better worked out that a number of refs were bent in the NBA several years ago, because his high sophisticated models would not line up with the real world events. Only when he did incredibly detailed analysis thinking he had a flaw in his model did he realised what was going on, and this is despite watching every game by eye he hadn't seen anything dodgy.
Never mind.
Haralabos Voulgaris has made a career for the past 10+ years as the world top basketball bettor, it is known his analytics / game modelling is superior to even used by the pro teams and he has been interviewed about his on several occasions, explaining how and why it works.
https://twitter.com/Football_Fours/status/779576909084721152
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rachel-reeves-brexit-immigration-riots_uk_57ea791ee4b00e5804ef5ae0