Match rigging. This is something that has crossed mind many a time. Lets be honest, it happens in horse racing and at the dogs (which is why i rarely bet on these). There was the thing with bruce grobalaaaaar and john fashinu in the footy which im sure everyone remembers. I guess what im trying to say is, are sporting events rigged more than what than we and the officials realise? This kind of thing could be happening weekly.
I'll tell you a funny story from 2 years back.
Whilst at uni, me and my flat-mate got a part-time job at an online betting exchange. It was a pukka job, and there were some real charactars there.
Anyway, in the second week we were there, one of the other members of staff was on the phone to a big player in the horse racing industry. Between us we made out the conversation went..."yeh, horse x has been sitting in the field for the past week eating grass and hay, it doesn't stand a chance of winning.."
Me and my mate then log-on to betfair, and see this horse trading at 1.43 (around 4/9) for a win, and 1.26 for a place. we both lay it largely (on the uni computers ) and then leg it down to the bookies to watch it. it was a shitty race at Wolverhampton, and the horse came last.
Is this classed as cheating though??
i have a bit of experience in dog racing as my dad used to be a trainer, the simplest way to stop a dog winning is to feed it an hour before the race, no need for drugs or punch in the nuts as people used to say happened, just a few sausages does the trick, luckily these days once a dog reaches the track, usually a couple of hours before the racing starts, the track puts them in kennels where ONLY the kennel hands are allowed into, also the manager of the track is the only one who knows which dog is where and informs the kennel hands what dog from which kennel goes into what trap at what time so noone knows what dog to mess with, that has stopped pretty much all the fixing in dog racing so you can waste ya hard earned cash free of worry
youve only got to go back a couple of years,when a midweek charlton game was abandoned,turned out to be nigerians who had heaped a load of money on the game being abandoned,theyd somehow got the keys to the floodlight room.
I'll tell you a funny story from 2 years back.
Whilst at uni, me and my flat-mate got a part-time job at an online betting exchange. It was a pukka job, and there were some real charactars there.
Anyway, in the second week we were there, one of the other members of staff was on the phone to a big player in the horse racing industry. Between us we made out the conversation went..."yeh, horse x has been sitting in the field for the past week eating grass and hay, it doesn't stand a chance of winning.."
Me and my mate then log-on to betfair, and see this horse trading at 1.43 (around 4/9) for a win, and 1.26 for a place. we both lay it largely (on the uni computers ) and then leg it down to the bookies to watch it. it was a shitty race at Wolverhampton, and the horse came last.
Is this classed as cheating though??
i have a bit of experience in dog racing as my dad used to be a trainer, the simplest way to stop a dog winning is to feed it an hour before the race, no need for drugs or punch in the nuts as people used to say happened, just a few sausages does the trick, luckily these days once a dog reaches the track, usually a couple of hours before the racing starts, the track puts them in kennels where ONLY the kennel hands are allowed into, also the manager of the track is the only one who knows which dog is where and informs the kennel hands what dog from which kennel goes into what trap at what time so noone knows what dog to mess with, that has stopped pretty much all the fixing in dog racing so you can waste ya hard earned cash free of worry
youve only got to go back a couple of years,when a midweek charlton game was abandoned,turned out to be nigerians who had heaped a load of money on the game being abandoned,theyd somehow got the keys to the floodlight room.