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Under-20 Bolivia-Argentina match under investigation by European police
European police investigation into a huge football match-fixing and betting ring has reopened questions about an under-20 friendly between Argentina and Bolivia two years ago. The game, played in Córdoba in December 2010, was mentioned in the European investigators' inquiry. Read full article
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Feb 06th, 2013 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0hand of god and all that,
once corupt, always corupt.
and a bad day for football.
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still
we beat brazil 2-1.
Poorball always has been and always will be corrupt. But the poor and uneducated will insist on watching it, so there is nothing anyone can do.
Feb 06th, 2013 - 10:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Just remove argieland from all international “competition”. A minimum 80% drop in corruption at a stroke!
Feb 06th, 2013 - 11:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Argentine officials dismissed links between the 2010 match and the investigation. ”This issue doesn't exist for the Argentine Football Association...”
Feb 06th, 2013 - 11:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Sounds familiar.... Oh right, the “issue” of the Falkland Islands and their population doesn't exist either. There are no islands. There are no people. Everyone lies - except the Argies.
People should be careful. As far as I can tell this corruption inquiry has a lot of ground to cover.
Feb 07th, 2013 - 03:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who knows which country is next.
“under-20 Friendly match”
Feb 07th, 2013 - 04:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0I am sure that's the most important match being investigated and never happen in England..suuuure
“The head of Europol has urged football authorities in Britain not to be “naïve” or “complacent” enough to believe the problem of match-fixing does not extend to games in this country as a Liverpool match was last night alleged to have involved an attempted fix”
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/under-suspicion-liverpool-match-against-debrecen--targeted-by-fixers-8480650.html
Did you even read your link? It was the Debrecen keeper that was involved.
Feb 07th, 2013 - 07:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think it would be difficult for match fixers to persuade premier league players simply because they are already paid so much. The cost benefit analysis doesn't add up. Referees may be more susceptible but they don't exactly live in poverty either.
Fixing lower league matches would also be difficult to profit from because bookmakers would quickly notice large bets on a game that would usually have been ignored. They carefully monitor betting patterns.
This seems to be most prevalent among teams on the periphery of Europe when they are playing a major club
I don't think this is restricted to football either. A report this morning on drug taking/fixing in Australia and remember the cycling scandals?
Feb 07th, 2013 - 08:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0As Argentina`s media do publish this “tree” because the match involves our league, don´t miss “the wood”: most of the matches have been discovered in Europe, England inclusive. (Comment just for the haters, sorry ElaineB)
Feb 07th, 2013 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/match-fixing-champions-league-game-1585390
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/match-fixing-champions-league-game-1585390
I think a relevant point has been made, it is hard to bribe the over-paid Premiership players (not impossible, but less likely) and the one game being investigated in the UK is a Champions League match with a Hungarian team.
Feb 07th, 2013 - 02:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Match fixing is rife in some sports - cricket is a perfect example where the initial investigation showed it as being endemic in Pakistan and then spread to some other countries.
Personally, I think the fact that you can bet on pretty much anything without sufficient regulation just feeds this problem.
I'm not poor, so I don't watch Poorball. It seems poor people like sports where the guys drive around at 120mph in school zones, beat up their wives, go whoring whilst their wives are sick outside night-clubs.
Feb 07th, 2013 - 04:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I prefer good sports, that educated people watch.
I could not be described as poor in any way but I enjoy going to watch Chelsea from time to time. I have also attended a few games in Argentina, though the football was pretty poor especially the Boca game I saw. The fans were far more entertaining than anything happening on the pitch.
Feb 07th, 2013 - 06:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That said I prefer rugby and cricket. Polo and basketball are great to watch live too
@12 I'm not sure why you'd want to watch poorball if you were also into real sports.
Feb 07th, 2013 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The key indicator of economic poverty is typically having SkyTV, poor people always have SkyTV and you can typically tell the level of someone's educational poverty because it is proportional to the size of their TV screen. People in a state of educational poverty normally watch poorball and talent shows on loop, and so they buy a huge TV.
Interestingly the business model for SkyTV is to essentially get as many people on benefits to pay as much of their benefits as they can on watching TV that includes 50 minutes of adverts for every 10 minutes of programming. It would likely be cheaper if the government negotiated some kind of bulk purchase for everyone on benefits, which is all of their subscribers and just pay for it out of the exchequer directly. Sort of like a license fee.
I'm sure you have a small tv and no sky subscription, but you really should stop watching poorball, it's dreadful.
aparently Australia has it bad.
Feb 07th, 2013 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0LOL. You are right about the disproportionate sized TVs. I don't know what that is about.
Feb 07th, 2013 - 07:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'll still enjoy a game of footie when I can.
13 Shed-time
Feb 08th, 2013 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So the flip side of the coin is you watch Dirty Desmond's channel 5 on a tiny screen to help make you feel secure when you watch the sex shows?
Come on, answer truthfully!
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