Is Corruption Common Occurrence in Football Matches?

Football – a beautiful game that gives fans a great spectacle and unique emotions. The best championships are followed by millions of viewers around the world. Football for many fans is a kind of religion.

Football fans rarely contemplate or attempt to drive away thoughts of fixed matches. It’s difficult to accept the fact that your favorite sportsmen or coaches can take a game or enter into an agreement with a rival.

Most skeptics believe that over the match-fixing betting syndicates are large and football agents. At the same time suspicious of the game are more probable in minor leagues or championships unpopular. It is generally accepted that high-level bribery or fraud cannot be. However, even in the most prestigious tournaments very strange match happen. “Turbetity” of the game can be quite easy to track by the illogical large bets in betting shops. It is difficult to explain to a six-figure bet on the correct score 3:5 or the winning team, which lost 0:3.

Surprisingly, suspicious matches occur at the highest level. Every football fan remembers the incredible comeback Liverpool in the Champions League final. British after the first inning “burned” 0:3, but were able to even the score and snatch victory in a penalty shootout. Of course, in football anything is possible, and often these fractures occur in the game. However, the strong suspicion is the fact that with the score 3:0 in favor of Milan bookmakers continued to take bets on the victory of the Italians. Typically, in such cases, the predictions of course, it was not possible to prove a conspiracy to win longer accept (leave totals, handicaps, etc.), but the bad feeling of enchanting game remained.

Professional players and coaches almost unanimously confirm the existence of match-fixing, adding coyly that they themselves never in such did not participate. The legendary Spartak Moscow player Andrei Tikhonov in an interview said that “fixed matches” exist and will exist, if people will not fight with them for real.

Given the major impact on the sports bookmakers, we can confidently say that the history of questionable matches will be continued. Prove the guilt of the players or a third party very difficult. “Strange” behavior of the players on the court can be the result of poor concentration or lack of motivation. Also at the level of the game can affect the physical and mental condition of the sportsman. That is why the structures involved in the investigation of match-fixing, often come to a standstill. Suspicious bets are a litmus test for bad games, but most of collusion with impunity.