Football is Fixed-City

[Thaksinssoldier]

You do realise that many of these millionaire footballers are gambling heavily?

Didi Hamann recently admitted to losing £300k in one night alone. One very well known player has carried on playing when he should have been easily able to retire but can't afford to and has remortgaged his house twice to pay off gambling debts.

Many years ago I knew of one former international who owed an amount equivalent to a year's salary or more to one casino alone. And I know of another current international whose club are aware of a significant gambling issue and believe that he may be compromised because of that.

There's also a very established premier league manager(who we just may have played recently) who was rumoured to have gotten a managerial position at a top club purely because he owed the owner of the club a massive amount of money from gambling and he was hired as essentially free labour to work off his debt.

It's rampant.

But there's also larger ramifications. For decades we moaned about cartels keeping clubs out. How did people think this was happening, aside from transfer laundering?

 

[Thaksinssoldier]

And a certain white haired knobjockey of a Cockney who had to take virtually unpaid employment in the North East of England because the chairman cleared his hefty gambling debts

beat me to it :-)

 

[Indaparkside]

What about red knapp the bent twat had accounts in his dogs name and gets off with it he owns horses etc if there ever was a bent **** he is def one apparently he lives in the 2nd most affluent area in the world on house prices.

 

[Jazzman]

You do realise that many of these millionaire footballers are gambling heavily?

Didi Hamann recently admitted to losing £300k in one night alone. One very well known player has carried on playing when he should have been easily able to retire but can't afford to and has remortgaged his house twice to pay off gambling debts.

Many years ago I knew of one former international who owed an amount equivalent to a year's salary or more to one casino alone. And I know of another current international whose club are aware of a significant gambling issue and believe that he may be compromised because of that.

Yes I do realise this, and yet I find it hard to believe that a Bayern Munich vs City game should have been fixed. I would think something like this would take place in lower profile games, not in what would have been one of, if not the, most important game of world football on that day.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Just seen they've claimed City vs Bayern in 2013(the 3-2) was fixed.

Nothing to back it up on their feed, but have it at 98 out of 100 fixed games.

Any thoughts on it?

Yeah, why didn't they mention that the game was on my birthday?

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Yeah, why didn't they mention that the game was on my birthday?

Naturally they assumed everyone would know

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Yes I do realise this, and yet I find it hard to believe that a Bayern Munich vs City game should have been fixed. I would think something like this would take place in lower profile games, not in what would have been one of, if not the, most important game of world football on that day.

But most money is staked on big games therefore more is at stake for bookies and gamblers.

In fact that game was perfect for a betting coup; both teams had qualified anyway so as long as we didn't take top spot off them, what had either team to lose? City win 3-2 after being behind at half time, some people make a killing and everyone is happy.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

But most money is staked on big games therefore more is at stake for bookies and gamblers.

In fact that game was perfect for a betting coup; both teams had qualified anyway so as long as we didn't take top spot off them, what had either team to lose? City win 3-2 after being behind at half time, some people make a killing and everyone is happy.

You do love a conspiracy! :-)

 

[Ban-jani]

i'm more inclined to believe that was down to pellegrini's & his coaching staff's incompetence, rather than him being bent.
to even begin to think that guardiola was/is involved in match fixing is plainly ludicrous.

it also, to me, seems extremely far-fetched that a club, or both clubs, of such stature would be involved in fixing games.
the ramifications if found out would be ruinous to the club and, as such, it's unthinkable that at any high-level employee would, or could, be involved.

betting patterns are highly monitored and analysed. betting companies won't cough up if it looks dodgy.
the only possible fix i can think of, bearing in mind it couldn't be too obscure a bet if large amounts were to be wagered, is:
"city to be behind at half-time"
something one rogue defender (or keeper) could have had a huge say in by ensuring the opposition got a couple.

With the image our owners are trying to instill I have to agree with this and say there's no way we'd be involved.

 

[lazza]

We were 2 down and getting pummelled. Maybe the turnaround which was quite astonishing

Well, for starters, we scored first, so we weren't ever two down. And Bayern were down to 10 men for a lot of the game, so perhaps understandably faded towards the end of the game. And our 2nd and 3rd goals came from mistakes by two different Bayern players. AN unexpected turnaround for us (knowing City) possibly, but hardly astonishing.