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| − | Can you still | + | Can you still recall the days when a football game was only a football game? I mean, it turned out an actual contest between two rivals along with the fans had no vested desire for the way the game will perform while using bookmakers. These were the periods when fans were real fans and never betters. these folks were the periods if you knew that match fixing won't ever happen because there was no financial reason to do so. These days, its an incredibly different story altogether. In many ways, sport now exist because of betting.<br><br>While horse racing has always been a sports activity that relied on betting, now it is overshadowed by major sboarena sports with mass appeal which is drawing in plenty of interest in the bookmakers. With horse racing, the unknown factor in the horse got something exciting and thrilling also it added that unpredictable factor that is suited to betting.<br><br>When you are looking for regular sports, you know that this human factor will be involved as well as the lure of big money will almost always be at play. When South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje was caught within the match fixing scandal it shook the field of cricket and sport throughout the world. Many are convinced that it was only the tip in the iceberg and copped it for a lot of other folks. With Australians Steve Waugh and Shane Warne also implicated, the matter was quickly swept beneath the table to avoid wasting face with fans.<br><br>How deep and how wide match mixing really goes no-one will really know. The question is if it really belongs in sport where athletes can fix games. Is it changing sport forever? Is it changing sport for your better? Yes, its driving plenty of money into sports but when its dirty money it may well just hurt sport permanently and reach an area where fans lose their confidence in the honesty of the contest. |
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Can you still recall the days when a football game was only a football game? I mean, it turned out an actual contest between two rivals along with the fans had no vested desire for the way the game will perform while using bookmakers. These were the periods when fans were real fans and never betters. these folks were the periods if you knew that match fixing won't ever happen because there was no financial reason to do so. These days, its an incredibly different story altogether. In many ways, sport now exist because of betting.
While horse racing has always been a sports activity that relied on betting, now it is overshadowed by major sboarena sports with mass appeal which is drawing in plenty of interest in the bookmakers. With horse racing, the unknown factor in the horse got something exciting and thrilling also it added that unpredictable factor that is suited to betting.
When you are looking for regular sports, you know that this human factor will be involved as well as the lure of big money will almost always be at play. When South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje was caught within the match fixing scandal it shook the field of cricket and sport throughout the world. Many are convinced that it was only the tip in the iceberg and copped it for a lot of other folks. With Australians Steve Waugh and Shane Warne also implicated, the matter was quickly swept beneath the table to avoid wasting face with fans.
How deep and how wide match mixing really goes no-one will really know. The question is if it really belongs in sport where athletes can fix games. Is it changing sport forever? Is it changing sport for your better? Yes, its driving plenty of money into sports but when its dirty money it may well just hurt sport permanently and reach an area where fans lose their confidence in the honesty of the contest.
