I was with a friend today who was in a hurry to place his bet on some numbers that were sent to him for some football matches that he believes are fixed. I'm a bit confused how fixed matches work.
Are fixed matches real? Do the coach and players of teams were matches have been fixed, do they consent to it? If you were in a team were your next fixture has been fixed, what will be your reaction?
Are fixed matches real? Do the coach and players of teams were matches have been fixed, do they consent to it? If you were in a team were your next fixture has been fixed, what will be your reaction?
They are most definitely real but chances are they only affect a very small percentage of any professional sports league. If you can imagine that professional players are meant to be the very best and are hired based on that skillset, yet the main way of rigging a competition would be to intentionally lose. If you keep losing as both an individual or a team player then eventually you will end up competing only in the lower and less profitable ranks of the game. It is usually pretty obvious when teams or solo players have intentionally attempted to rig a game, because they are usually favorites and have to make some rather silly mistakes in their usually solid game play to let the opponent win, if you do that enough times it comes under a lot of scrutiny.
If you do that in a big sport where people can easily detect if you intentionally did such mistakes you'll be questionable, fixed games mostly happened with small / unpopular competitions, money can manipulate those on the lower leagues, while with big leagues and popular sports, medias are everywhere a mistake will surely be eyed for questioning and players/teams are all liable if proven.
Most of those professional stars are fully aware of the consequences in case involvement with kind of illegal things has been proven.,
A tough call for them as they will risk their fame and reliability just for the sake of some money, unless it's worth taking everything for granted.
