How corrupt is football?

[PaulPowersTash]

How much did you win?

I had £20 on it and another £20 for United to win at 15/8.
It was stupid of me not to do it as a double.

 

[H.H.]

I had £20 on it and another £20 for United to win at 15/8.
It was stupid of me not to do it as a double.

Nice one, a wins a win.
I have now stopped doing doubles and have started only doing "safe "bets as singles.
Last few games I've just been doing "Kane to score anytime," now quids in.
I also had United to win at just under 2-1 (although I lost on my Silva to score any time.)

 

[PaulPowersTash]

Nice one, a wins a win.
I have now stopped doing doubles and have started only doing "safe "bets as singles.
Last few games I've just been doing "Kane to score anytime," now quids in.
I also had United to win at just under evens (though I lost on my Silva to score any time.)

I know exactly what you mean. The great thing about betting on football is that there is only three possible
outcomes of the game (unlike horse racing). Once you start mixing it up with doubles and the like
you make it many times more difficult for yourself. The same reason why the bookies love
the ACCA's customers. Sticking to singles is sensible punting.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Criminal proceedings launched against Fifa president

Authorities investigating an alleged covered-up meeting between the Fifa president and the Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber has requested criminal proceedings be brought against Infantino

www.independent.co.uk

A Swiss special prosecutor has commenced criminal proceedings against Fifa President Gianni Infantino.

A court concluded last week that Lauber had covered up the meeting and lied to his supervisors while his office investigated corruption allegations surrounding the football governing body.

 

[anxiouswarrior]

Exactly this:
The amazing thing was that the bookies were giving 5/2 for a penalty to be awarded in the game to either side.
Talk about printing your own money!

Erm do the berts never get penalties , over last few years aided by the oil well they have had plenty and you know it bertie

 

[summerisle]

 

[Chris O'Connor]

Criminal proceedings launched against Fifa president

Authorities investigating an alleged covered-up meeting between the Fifa president and the Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber has requested criminal proceedings be brought against Infantino

www.independent.co.uk

A Swiss special prosecutor has commenced criminal proceedings against Fifa President Gianni Infantino.

A court concluded last week that Lauber had covered up the meeting and lied to his supervisors while his office investigated corruption allegations surrounding the football governing body.

Yes it's in all the press now, I posted similar in the football thread (taken from various media sites but they're all basically the same story).....

Here we go again, the FIFA corruption circus is back in town

The Swiss authorities have launched a criminal investigation into FIFA president Gianni Infantino regarding his dealings with the Swiss attorney general Michael Lauber in 2017.

FIFA was embroiled in the biggest corruption scandal in its history in 2015 one that was to snare Blatter and Michel 'backhander' Platini in it's net, and Lauber was in charge of the subsequent investigation on events in 2017.

Apparently Infantino had dealings with him which contravened the guidelines and the supervisory body which oversees Lauber has concluded the meetings seriously violated his official and legal duties They were found to have met three times in a fifteen month period the last of which which neither could recall and no notes were taken.

The new special prosecutor Kleiber has already found possible infractions which include abuse of public office, assisting offenders and incitement to these acts.

FiFA have said these meetings were just normal and proper etc . rather reminiscent of their line when the [Poor language removed] hit the fan last time around.

It's all on the media sites, although it'll no doubt go under the radar today with the huge news from St James' Park that Mike is there to stay for the foreseeable ..

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Travel bans could force clubs to drop out of European competition, says Uefa

A new regulation would involve a club forfeiting a tie if their national or local government applied travel restrictions that affected their opponents

www.theguardian.com

UEFA sticking it to the smaller nations as per usual

 

[catcherintherye]

Travel bans could force clubs to drop out of European competition, says Uefa

A new regulation would involve a club forfeiting a tie if their national or local government applied travel restrictions that affected their opponents

www.theguardian.com

UEFA sticking it to the smaller nations as per usual

It doesn't help smaller nations, but in all honesty this could be any nation. If we get a 2nd spike, and all countries whack on another travel ban (or quarantine for 2-4 weeks on return) thats a major fork in the road of European football. You'd imagine reveues are going to be massively down as well. That could happen to any country too.

 

[kev]

 

[MondayHater]

You can’t have that amount of money in the game without it being corrupt. Some people have done a lot worse for a lot less money

 

[brigadier]

Should of had a man sent off in the first half , you could see the ref felt sorry for them.