Posts Tagged match fixing
John Higgins cleared of match-fixing
Posted by Peter Webb in Bet Angel on September 8th, 2010
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/8973869.stm
It increasingly looks to me like newspapers are trying to get stories out of sportsmen by setting them up to talk about match fixing. Despite the fact Higgins never did fix anything, it did a lot of damage to him and snooker. His guilt it appears, is not to report the incident.
I suppose the decent thing to come out of this is that sports men and women will be very nervous about meeting strangers or even contemplating meeting them. Maybe they will also report with more frequency these sorts of occurrences. My guess is that finding himself a long way from home and in uncomfortable circumstances Higgins felt he needed to be a yes man to ensure a trip home. I think it may say more about journalists than it does Higgins.
Massive match fixing probe launched
Posted by Peter Webb in Bet Angel on November 20th, 2009
German prosecutors have launched a probe into around 200 football matches. They suspect a number of matches, including champions league and Europa league matches, have been targeted by criminals who bribe players and officials to fix games. The criminals made money by betting on the results. Matches under investigation were played in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Croatia, Slovenia, Turkey, Hungary, Bosnia-Hercegovina and Austria.