Can someone explain why a former Premier League captain talking candidly about pre arranged betting on games they were involved with barely gets a mention anywhere outside of The Sun, yet footballers from another country betting on games that dont involve them makes widespread headline news? http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...us-Lundekvam-blows-lid-on-football-fraud.html It's such a case of diversion via aportioning blame elsewhere that it almost becomes laughable.
Because he sold a story to the Sun to fuel his cocaine and alcohol addiction from the sanctity of his home in Norway where he cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed in this country? I did hear on the radio that Wilshire is being investigated after his comments on Twitter that he bet on a match he was involved in (I think it was Frimpong to score), although he has said it was a joke
Yeah, I bet we'll never read a story like that in the British media within hours of the story breaking. if we did, it'll really prove that the foreigners are innocent.
Obsessed... I'm not going to look into the case in detail because it's the Sun (ffs) but I'd imagine betting on the first throw in isn't seen as a scandal (except by the sun of course) because it means nothing. Whereas your beloved Italian clubs have done far worse.
Id guess it doesnt mean nothing if said player puts the ball out for the first throwing while having a few k on the bet
Well FIFA think its big enough to have an investigation. Ex.Southampton player Claus Lundekvam has made such claims to match fixing.
I meant it means nothing to the match, it's not like teams were fixing results and winning titles doing it.
I'd say 50 people being arrested for match fixing was a tad more serious than a bloke making illegal bets on when he took a throw in.
And where has that happened? Obviously you're not referring to Italy, where the arrests were for making bets on football matches - nothing more, nothing less. For in Italy it is illegal for professional footballers to bet on football.
According to most sources, some were arrested for illegal betting, some were arrested for criminal match-fixing... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011–12_Italian_football_scandal Before you come back, I only ever watch Italian teams if they're playing English ones in the Champions League, I know barely any of those involved and I really don't give a ****.
Let's start with Masiello, who admitted scoring an own goal because he was being paid hundreds of thousands of Euros to do it.
No he didnt. He scored an own goal and then said he'd been offered 50,000 euros to score an own goal. He didnt get paid.
Shall we bypass the debate about the amount, and just go with the comments about admitting ensuring his team lost by scoring an own goal (despite your claims a few posts ago that all that happened in Italy was some bets were placed by players on games), and the bit where he said he accepted payments for another game and then later tried to return them. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-Masiello-match-fixing-confession-leaked.html
