A Primer on Match Fixing in the Wake of the Cameroon World Cup Allegations «

 

"While the most obvious kind of fixing is done to ensure that one team loses, the wide variety of bets available allow for a variety of different opportunities. Sometimes, merely winning or losing isn’t profitable enough, especially when a minnow is taking on a relative powerhouse; the weaker team will have to lose by a number of goals to overcome a handicap, a goal spread similar to the point spreads we know from the NFL.

Many of Perumal’s purported fixes were not for a particular side but instead for the total number of goals scored in a match. Many bookmakers also allow you to bet on all kinds of minutiae and events within a match. You can often bet on the possibility that a player will get sent off, or that a penalty will be converted. Even subtleties like the number of corner kicks in a match are up for grabs. In one sample incident, England international Matt Le Tissier admitted 14 years after the fact that he attempted to cash in on a 1995 bet that the ball would go out of play for the first time inside of the first minute of a match between his Southampton side and Wimbledon, only to miskick his attempt to do so. And that was before the advent of worldwide in-running live betting over the Internet on matches."

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A Primer on Match Fixing in the Wake of the Cameroon World Cup Allegations «