Maybe it was just doctors investigating to see if he really is a little bit downs.
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What if football was all fixed.
- Thread starter Paxtonloudmouth
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Maybe it was just doctors investigating to see if he really is a little bit downs.
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Paul Walsh
Unfortunately it always has been. Sport has had the fix in since the 18th century. Can only get worse as the morals of professional athletes drop lower.
Gilzeantoscore
Justin Edinburgh
How can you say with any certainty that 'nobody knew'?
Gilzeantoscore
Justin Edinburgh
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... Watching Grobelaar at the time I called it as a fix. He was deliberately jumping over shots. In my view as a fan, you can tell, you feel it in your gut. I got the same feeling watching WBA versus Arsenal.
Yiddo
Cecil Poynton
People automatically assume that match fixing means the outcome of a game when really most of it is someone getting a yellow or red card or maybe a penalty. I can't see results being fixed as you would have to have some skill to score 90th minute screamers week in and week out to get the win / draw you have supposedly rigged.
Klinsmania
Bobby Zamora
Given some of the scum's results over the years, and some of the dodgy penalties, dubious off-side goals etc I would not be at all surprised if some games at the highest level are fixed.
clownfoot
Goran Bunjevcevic
Hate to agree with anything Chelsea orientated, but the semi final against Barca was very suspicious. I'm sure a fan of every club in the world would have some instance where they felt they were beaten due a dubious decision. I feel, given enough license to carry out an investigation, people high up in either UEFA or FIFA will have profited from some decisions in the past. I'm not talking on the pitch, more when players are getting fines, or not getting suspensions in a disciplinary
Mumorn
Vic Buckingham
Scandalous.
Gilzeantoscore
Justin Edinburgh
Ha, ha. Yeah right how can matches be fixed? Anyone who believes that, must also believe in fairies at the bottom of the garden. What about the 1984 UEFA Cup semi final Anderlect V Aston Villa. It was provento be bent. The ref admitted it. I don't know how people can even question the credibility of this. Although the funny thing is, at that time, even if the ref, both linesman and the opposition goalie had taken bribes... I'd still expect Germany to win. :ross:
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milo
Jack L. Jones
Absolutely. It is nearly always **** up rather than conspiracy.
You would have rigged the result long before then so as to not worry about having to score a 90th minute 30yd screamer.
That said i don't think football is fixed but I'm sure there are some pieces of action within the game that can be, and are, fixed.
clownfoot
Goran Bunjevcevic
I agree, but it would only take one instance of cheating and the whole thing falls down. Say a world cup match was fixed, the biggest competition in the sport, how would football regain credibility?
Italian football was in the doledrums for a long time because of corruption. I think many fans would turn away from watching if there was proof of any snide behaviour. It would be pointless paying to watch a match that the outcome is already decided upon. Very WWE-ish
There are different levels of fixed
- FIFA/UEFA -> massive corruption, contract/hosting awarding (proven), protectionist attitudes towards their marque brands
- Local Leagues -> again, something likes Cheat$ki's record of drawing non PL sides in cups over the last 7 odd years makes an interesting idea for review
- In game -> Ref's obviously pressured by crowd, managers like SAF who the ref knows will use the media to spacegoat them, tends to make 50/50 decisions go 70/30 (or something like that)
- Outright fixing -> where player/team is actually coerced or bribed to change result.
I think the first 3 are very common, last one less so in the top tier leagues. Outside of 3 or 4 leagues, e.g. in Asia, absolutely widespread.
To the OP's question, the only way I would stop watching Spurs is if I knew systematically Spurs management and players were directly involved. If we are just the victims of said system, it would hurt my love for the game, but not my club.
- FIFA/UEFA -> massive corruption, contract/hosting awarding (proven), protectionist attitudes towards their marque brands
- Local Leagues -> again, something likes Cheat$ki's record of drawing non PL sides in cups over the last 7 odd years makes an interesting idea for review
- In game -> Ref's obviously pressured by crowd, managers like SAF who the ref knows will use the media to spacegoat them, tends to make 50/50 decisions go 70/30 (or something like that)
- Outright fixing -> where player/team is actually coerced or bribed to change result.
I think the first 3 are very common, last one less so in the top tier leagues. Outside of 3 or 4 leagues, e.g. in Asia, absolutely widespread.
To the OP's question, the only way I would stop watching Spurs is if I knew systematically Spurs management and players were directly involved. If we are just the victims of said system, it would hurt my love for the game, but not my club.
Gilzeantoscore
Justin Edinburgh
People would be amazed at just how little it sometimes costs to fix matches. The ref for the Anderlecht Aston Villa UEFA CUp semi was bought off with prostitutes.
Outrageous. Perfectly legitimate goals disallowed, fouls that weren't called, dodgy offside decisions, the Koreans played dirty... Clearly FIFA instructed the Refs to favour the hosts.
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Rorschach
Sonny Walters
Or maybe pictures of him with prostitutes
