Football isn't that easy to fix to be honest. Certainly not

subtly, and that goes for players and officials.

Unless you have the whole of one team bought off, that is.

Mind you, that's just results. I'd imagine the one way a referee could influence betting would be timing and/or number of fouls conceded. Perhaps the same with cards.

But a referee can only make a contribution - send a player off, give a penalty (but then you at least need the play to be in a certain situation before you can even do that). But he still cannot be 100% sure of deciding the result whatever he does, really. Unless it is ridiculously obvious and silly like disallowing every goal from one team, and giving a goal to the other team when it went nowhere near the goal.

Not easy easy to fix as 1 v 1 individual sports - for example, boxing and tennis. I guess the reason why we don't get many scandals these days in those two sports is because they earn so much from it anyway. Even golf would be tough. Best ones are the 1 v 1 sports where all you have to do is ensure you are worse than the other guy.

Posted By: Steve in Holland on September 7th 2010 at 15:44:18

Message Thread

Thinking of crooked sportsmen (NCFC) - Firstnews, Sep 7, 15:38:48
- if the refs started making loads of dodgy calls (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 7, 15:58:31
  - IBM Tiltpad tastic (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Sep 7, 18:09:51
    - i thought you would be (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 7, 18:17:34
      - repeat tiltpot! (n/m) (NCFC) - pants, Sep 7, 18:24:37
- The Serie A scandal of 2006 involved referees didn't it? (NCFC) - Ottosson Foxtrot, Sep 7, 15:55:34
  - Check out Robert Hoyzer in Germany (NCFC) - APB, Sep 7, 16:03:25
    - And he got 2 years 5 months im Knast... (NCFC) - APB, Sep 7, 16:08:00
- Football isn't that easy to fix to be honest. Certainly not (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Sep 7, 15:44:18
  - Remember its rarely the result of the match that is fixed (NCFC) - DiscoDaleGordon, Sep 7, 16:15:31
    - Le Tissier didn't even manage to do that when he was trying ! (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Sep 7, 16:22:59
    - in russia, greece, italy etc it is (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 7, 16:16:33
  - loads of tennis scandals (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 7, 15:56:59
    - Tennis is massively easy to fix (NCFC) - duke of york, Sep 7, 16:32:18
      - the problem is when in play markets (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 7, 16:39:00
        
        Yeah, that would be pretty obvious (NCFC) - duke of york, Sep 7, 16:42:54
        
        yeah and plenty more since (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 7, 16:48:50
        
        What did you make of Muggy's collapse? (NCFC) - duke of york, Sep 7, 16:54:53
        
        yeah very odd (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 7, 17:02:47
        
        Needs a good coach (NCFC) - duke of york, Sep 7, 17:14:01
        
        the gonzo and berdych matches he was never gonna win (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 7, 17:44:43
        
        There seems to be fewer mugs around at the moment than there were a couple of years ago (NCFC) - Huge Small, Sep 7, 17:24:50
        
        nah murray's draw was very good (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 7, 17:47:39
      - Or just retire because you "feel ill" (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Sep 7, 16:33:23
        
        Yeah, though quite a few bookies (NCFC) - duke of york, Sep 7, 16:35:31
        
        betfair do after the first set (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 7, 16:40:21

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