03-12-2014, 10:48 PM
Malcolm John Wrote:that is by far the biggest league in football, match fixing in that league would be by far the most difficult of any league in the world to achieve.
This is wrong on both counts. There have been cases of fixing in the world cup and champions league in recent times - both bigger stages than the EPL.
Anyway there are so many layers and levels of fixing it is hard to put it all under the word match fixing. A bit like when people put all drugs under the same umbrella, you can hardly class a joint the same as heroin.
The same with match fixing, you can have a manager playing a much weakened team from his squad on purpose to "surrender" the game. Or you can just simply have everyone involved in a big mafia operation to produce a pre determined result like this.