How Soccer Match-Fixing Actually Works

Good that Moses is being open and honest rather than in denial.

Jesus Saves
if price is right

£60,000 to fix an Eastbourne v Bromley game?

Sounds very amateurish. The risks of trying to match fix a lower league game with 5 players must be enormous. All meeting in swish London hotels. Drawing attention to yourselves.

Why not just find out where the goalie lives and pay him a visit one day? Job done and no one knows.

I would very much appreciate it if they could, next season, bribe some United players to intentionally win a game!!

I'd say you need goalie heavily involved, in fact don't think you can be sure of doing the process without him or her on payroll.

Remember a few years ago when immediately after a game kicked off Clarifge booted the ball clean out of play for a throw in???

This is from a Foxes forum from 2010

Following the recent 'spot fixing' betting scandal in cricket, I was browsing through the Steve Claridge interview in the Fox 2009 summer special when I read this;-

'..... there's an interesting thing about Iwan. A couple of the players were trying to work a bit of a scam on throw-ins straight after kick offs. They would bet on a throw in the first minute or something. A certain player aimed the ball out for a throw but Iwan went up to head it, got clattered by a defender and broke a rib. He missed the play-offs. Iwan was out there trying to make it look real, somebody under hit the ball instead of over hitting it and poor old Iwan was out for the rest of the season.'

Funny, it never really clicked with me the first time I read it, but match betting was obviously rife then, as it probably is now.

What if Iwans absence had cost us?

It wasn't banned then, so yeah they had a go.

Players betting on next manager and threatening to
go on strike if temp manager didn't get job..

Throw ins, bookings, even last goal scorer, backing the goalie
and trying to win a pelanty... Didnt pay off.

Amazing, and apologies to Moses if I am wrong he was involved and making money around fixing matches and now he makes money by doing the reverse, or is he giving his time for free.

I know an ex Forest player who got a telling off from his team mates for stopping a very early throw in from happening. This would be late 80s, early 90s. Were traditional high st bookies taking those kind of bets then?

Even the game Claridge mentions would be nearly 30 years ago. The markets then were really thin.

Maybe the markets were in the far east

Pretty sure Le Tissier was involved in a incident where he was meant to put ball out for a early throw in and underhit it, was a spread bet and rest of players weren't in on it.

That East Fife five Forfar four game needs looking at.

I will never forget when bookmakers first turned up at professional football.
The players , and in particular one well known centre forward backed himself about an hour before the game to get the first goal
the game was one of those micky mouse texaco cup games poorly attended and more than boring
0-0 at the death,extra time then into penalties
the same centre forward grabs the ball and says hes taking the first pen
scores his goal and celebrates telling everyone he backed himself to score the first goal
afterwards he got educated , no payout, first 90 minutes only counted
those were the days

Another time got a draw in the F A Vase at the other end of the country
we had a couple of ex-pros who we signed the week or so before
turned up at the ground and there was a bookmakers sign on the bar in the clubhouse
and beside it a board saying we were 9/4 to win
so i asked at the bar where we could get a bet on and the barman pointed to a guy sitting at a table in the corner of the room

I shot back in the dressing room where the lads were getting changed
told them we were 9/4 and within five minutes I had over £350 quid whip round in my pocket
manager didnt need to give a team talk
Went back in the clubhouse and asked  for 350 at 9/4 , bookie said he doesn't take over 20 quid from people with a southern accent
the lads won 6-2 , didn't tell them until afterwards

Never mind all of that irish....where the fook have you been, a couple of us were actually concerned and asking afte you...me included, fook knows why

The BBC made a film of the biggest match fixing scandal in England, it's on you tube, they all got jailed, it's on you tube if anybody wants a look, it's called "the fix" strangely enough. A mate of mine was in the jail with goalie.

Don t mind these silly stories its organised corruption ..pro sport is not sport.

invariably there is at least one moron involved somewhere either placing the bets or on the pitch that makes it highly sus and it gets flagged within a few games max. They could have it go on under the radar for a lot longer and make way more money if they had a clue what they were doing.

Quantum Entanglement between teams

Invite a Referee to come to your country to train a few local Refs and referee a couple of high profile friendlies.

Pay him excessively. Put him up in a 7* hotel. Make sure he gets laid by something well out of his league.

Tell him you really liked working with him and ask if he'd be interested in coming again. Then leave him hanging.

Next time he refs at your place make sure the girl/boy who did him is there and says hello before kick-off.

Skënderbeu were banned from European football during the 2016–17 season for 10 years over match-fixing allegations. The decision was unprecedented in UEFA's history, both for the length of the ban as well as the fact that UEFA's conclusions were based primarily on statistical analysis of betting patterns.

Former Athlone Town goalkeeper Igor Labuts has won an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport against a ban imposed after he was alleged to have played a part in match-fixing. In September 2017, the Latvian was banned by the FAI for 12 months for breaching rules relating to manipulating matches and gambling.

I was following both these matches with the markets open. The most obvious match fixing I've ever seen with people dumping 6k sums into the markets laying unders at evens in the 88-90th minute. In the Athlone game the CH played a hospital backpass which was a thru ball for the striker. Keeper came out of his box and the striker got there 10 yard before him and passed it into the net. The CH was done for fixing before. The keeper was investigated before but not done.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/mar/19/match-fixing-skenderbeu-albania-uefa-report-ban

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2020/0717/1153977-former-athlone-keeper-labuts-cleared-of-match-fixing/

Does anyone remember Brian Clough talking about match fixing when he was playing?(He was not involved)

Fixed odds coupons got banned as match
fixing was rife

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_British_football_match-fixing_scandal

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