The Fix: Soccer and Organized CrimeThe Fix is the most explosive story of sports corruption in a generation. Intriguing, riveting, and compelling, it tells the story of an investigative journalist who sets out to examine the world of match-fixing in professional soccer. From the Introduction Understand how gambling fixers work to corrupt a soccer game and you will understand how they move into a basketball league, a cricket tournament, or a tennis match (all places, by the way, that criminal fixers have moved into). My views on soccer have changed. I still love the Saturday-morning game between amateurs: the camaraderie and the fresh smell of grass. But the professional game leaves me cold. I hope you will understand why after reading the book. I think you may never look at sport in the same way again. |
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Page 112
... bookmakers ( whom the law still calls criminal ) are at a competi- tive disadvantage against the really dishonest bookmakers . There is no one to police the industry and the immoral bookmakers will survive and thrive . One of the ways ...
... bookmakers ( whom the law still calls criminal ) are at a competi- tive disadvantage against the really dishonest bookmakers . There is no one to police the industry and the immoral bookmakers will survive and thrive . One of the ways ...
Page 176
... bookmakers on either side of the planet . But now they have to be quick ; it is rare that one bookmaker will be out of line with the worldwide betting odds for longer than ten minutes . This is the public argument that gambling ...
... bookmakers on either side of the planet . But now they have to be quick ; it is rare that one bookmaker will be out of line with the worldwide betting odds for longer than ten minutes . This is the public argument that gambling ...
Page 177
... bookmakers around the world , and with a few elementary precautions , no one is the wiser . Two , while a bookmaker or an “ early warning system ” can tell that the odds may have shifted in the illegal Asian market on a particular game ...
... bookmakers around the world , and with a few elementary precautions , no one is the wiser . Two , while a bookmaker or an “ early warning system ” can tell that the odds may have shifted in the illegal Asian market on a particular game ...
Contents
PART II | 5 |
The Arrival of the Locusts | 77 |
A NORMAL WAY OF BUSINESS | 87 |
Copyright | |
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