We've had some discussions here regarding fix matches being real or not, but today something astonishing happened where I was watching today's game that made me start to believe this narrative about fix matches being true.
Today someone came in where we were watching the Crystal Palace vs. Liverpool community shield game, a fan of Manchester United, and joined our table of discussion. As the discussion was on going, the supporter said his friend gave him the Liverpool vs. Crystal Palace match to bet as a fixed FT draw. Most of us did not believe it until he showed us where he staked the game, and at that point Liverpool were already leading by 2:1, so he said he was about to lose #100,000 (Nigerian Naira), but he's not worried because there was an agreement they had that if the game did not play, his friend is going to refund him. Particularly, I do not totally believe in a possible fixed match of a thing, but to my gratest surprise, I couldn't believe how the game ended in a 90-minute draw.
According to the guy, he said this is not the first time, that he's friend trust he's source, whereas he never disclosed any information to us upon our efforts trying to get more info.
Any similar experience?
We live in a world where any thing is possible, so I do not doubt things like this whenever I come across them, match fixing is as real as it can be, and I believe that if there was not such thing as match fixing, even the term "match fixing" wouldn't have been in existence.
So for the fact that we have a word as "match fixing" and it has a meaning, it simply means that it does exists, the questions should be who and or which team are into match fixing.
Even big clubs are interested in making money, Infact, they are the ones who even need more money than the smaller players because buying players is quite expensive.
So if some of this top football clubs will engage their self in match fixing, I am utterly not surprised, but all the same, maybe it's also a coincidence that that match played out exactly the way that gambler was told the match will play out, what if it's all coincidence and not that the match was indeed fixed?