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 32
... lose a game against a strong team that really wants to win is not particularly hard , but for a strong team to lose credibly against a weak team is actually very difficult . Give the ball to an incompetent but honest team and there is ...
... lose a game against a strong team that really wants to win is not particularly hard , but for a strong team to lose credibly against a weak team is actually very difficult . Give the ball to an incompetent but honest team and there is ...
Page 264
... lose that game . Yeah . We told them for lose , we cannot lose this game . Already our first game , it was a drawn game . So we cannot afford to lose the second game . They tried and tried . But we did not give in . Stephen was telling ...
... lose that game . Yeah . We told them for lose , we cannot lose this game . Already our first game , it was a drawn game . So we cannot afford to lose the second game . They tried and tried . But we did not give in . Stephen was telling ...
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... lose above the spread , by two clear goals . Presumably , it is generally easier for fixers to convince players who expected to lose anyway to lose . Three , after all the hysteria , after all the investigations , after all the team ...
... lose above the spread , by two clear goals . Presumably , it is generally easier for fixers to convince players who expected to lose anyway to lose . Three , after all the hysteria , after all the investigations , after all the team ...
Contents
PART II | 5 |
The Arrival of the Locusts | 77 |
A NORMAL WAY OF BUSINESS | 87 |
Copyright | |
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