How corrupt is football?

[Duncan’s Pigeon Loft]

Betting on the first throw in or sommet like that. Cant remember if he actually did it, or said he knew about it though.

Yes he did put the bet on, the plan was to welly it in to touch straight from the kick off but he missed.

I think the bet was to have the first throw in inside 30 seconds or something, but if it happened between 30 and 60 seconds it was seen as ‘neutral time’ so he wouldn’t lose money. Something like that anyway.
I remember him saying he’d never ran round so much in that 30 seconds trying to put the ball out

 

[Duncan’s Pigeon Loft]

He did;

Matthew Le Tissier admits being part of attempted betting scam at Southampton

Matthew Le Tissier has revealed that he once attempted to play a part in a £10,000 betting scam while a player with Southampton – but, ever the perfectionist, failed when trying too hard to make it look convincing.

www.telegraph.co.uk

could have saved me some typing!

makes you wonder how many other occasions similar things have happened. I remember the old Wimbledon always used to welly it in to touch by the corner flag straight from the kick off.

 

[PhilM]

You only need to look at the whole refereeing situation, with the PGMOL outright and defiantly protecting their own because they want to maintain the closed shop.

There has been constant mistakes with VAR, yet there is no accountability of those involved because those in charge are a select group of ex-referees.

Where is the accountability? Where is the transparency? We have a day where all three penalties are admitted as mistakes (amongst a long list of others)...

... but are they reprimanded? This situation alone is not corruption in its purest form, but it certainly opens up the question of how the situation could be influenced.

Make a dodgy decision and it looks like the norm with no punishment for those involved. I know for a fact that the referees are influenced by internal statistics.

 

[jaycee]

could have saved me some typing!

makes you wonder how many other occasions similar things have happened. I remember the old Wimbledon always used to welly it in to touch by the corner flag straight from the kick off.

That could be to do with an old Cambridge tactic,when the likes of Dion Dublin was there,the manager used to get the ground staff to basically waterlog the corners then hit them with long balls,the ball wouldnt run out of play as easily and they employed fast wingers to get there and cross

 

[daza_1973]

Corrupt, blatantly stage managed and morally bankrupt.
Our game v's Utd at home made this glaringly obvious to anyone with eyes.

 

[NewRadical]

I would say there are various corruptions going on.

Keep certain teams in Europe / at the top seems institutional.

I think certain decisions are given as almost scripted entertainment to keep a game interesting. Or to keep a number of teams in the hunt for a title / European qualification / relegation.

Then their are the odd events currently going on or rumoured to happen with Wigan and Sheffield Wednesday to do with going into administration and it possibly causing relegation.

Something that struck me as odd was the Tottenham vs. Watford game when the referee's (Michael Oliver) watch / communication device stopped working for 3 minutes. Only 2 minutes of added time was given.

 

[Methuselah]

You only need to look at the whole refereeing situation, with the PGMOL outright and defiantly protecting their own because they want to maintain the closed shop.

There has been constant mistakes with VAR, yet there is no accountability of those involved because those in charge are a select group of ex-referees.

Where is the accountability? Where is the transparency? We have a day where all three penalties are admitted as mistakes (amongst a long list of others)...

... but are they reprimanded? This situation alone is not corruption in its purest form, but it certainly opens up the question of how the situation could be influenced.

Make a dodgy decision and it looks like the norm with no punishment for those involved. I know for a fact that the referees are influenced by internal statistics.

This, exactly.

 

[fabricsince1985]

It doesn't need to be corrupt. The rules of FFP or the top clubs spinning off and having their own meetings, trying to cut their own deals to secure more income for themselves allows them to secure and guarantee their status. They know City are at the top table, FFP ruling on that was to deter any other clubs from even bothering. Thankfully, it didn't get upheld.

Liverpool winning is good for the story. But in all honesty it was always going to be a case of 'when' not 'if'. The referrees are not corrupt, they're just subconsciously biased towards the bigger clubs.

 

[The binman chronicles]

When you have a rule that states clubs can only spend what they earn to lock in the advantage they already have through current success or location then it's corrupt as can be.

And don't even get me started on the referees/VAR/FA discipline panels.

 

[Methuselah]

Where a vast amount of money is involved as in, particularly, European football, including English football, then corruption is inevitable. It will always be so.

 

[Tubey]

You'd have to be mad to vote no.

It's not even a conspiracy surely? After Blatter, Platini etc.

Not to mention Collina, which remains to this day the most blatant act of corruption I've seen in football.

 

[Tin-Tin]

Very

 

[PaulPowersTash]

He did (claimed it failed but he went through with it and felt comfortable enough to admit it in an autobiography)

Matthew Le Tissier admits being part of attempted betting scam at Southampton

Matthew Le Tissier has revealed that he once attempted to play a part in a £10,000 betting scam while a player with Southampton – but, ever the perfectionist, failed when trying too hard to make it look convincing.

www.telegraph.co.uk

I remember years ago at Maine Road Niall Quinn would receive the first pass from the kick off and hoof it immediately into the stands - every single time. I could never understand or work out why at the time he did it?
Allegedly there was some big bets made on the first throw in of the game within 15 seconds. Everyone was in on it. No harm done, didn't change the outcome of the game or the result and everyone was a winner!

Remember when we had a spate of the flood lights failing at games?

In reply to the OP's original question. Yes. I believe without doubt that today's game is corrupt. It always has been (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_fixing_in_English_football)

However, today's fixing isn't, in the main for personal gain by the players, it's for the benefit of the business that is Premiership football. To me VAR is conclusive proof that the outcome of a game has been decided before the two teams even get to the dressing rooms. It's not even subtle. It is in your face blatant. For me it's 100% that football is fixed.

 

[NathDogg]

As bent as a 9 bob note, especially at the top of the game - uefa, pgmol, premier league, fa - backhanders going on all over the shop.

 

[degsy]

It used to be laughed off as tin foil hat stuff but corruption has been proven at the very highest level of the game (only when it pissed on the shoes of America's government...)

Corruption has been proven at some of the world's biggest clubs in Serie A.

We have pundits such as Le Tissier admitting his part in match fixing - but broadcasters don't care.

It's not tin foil hat stuff to think corruption exists in a multi billion pound industry.

But just how corrupt is the game?

Almost every country has had a Referreeing scandal
The Premier League twigged that you can get caught if one or two Reffs are bent. But if all the Reffs are inside the tent peeing out its not a problem - hence PGMOL...allegedly. without prejudice, etc.