Pakistani cricket scandal

[anotheoldgit]

Since it now seems to be acceptable to duplicate questions, I will ask about the Pakistani cricket scandal

In view of this cheating for betting purposes, and the now recent horse.racing inquiry into how a horse who had in her three previous starts, had been beaten by 22 lengths, 75 lengths and 88 lengths, yet won her latest race by 19 lengths..

http://www.guardian.c...01/am-i-blue-hereford

I will ask again, how is it that cricket can come under investigation for irregularities, and horse racing can have it's stewards inquiries, yet in football no matter how strange a match officials decision, or why a player allowed in a goal, or created a penalty etc, it is all accepted?

[BertiWooster]

Perhaps the horse thought that prince harry was the jockey , and it didn't fancy the look of his spurs

[Canary42]

I fail to see what point you are making.

Football has had its legal charges for cheating (e.g. several Portsmouth employees still under investigation in respect of transfer fee payments).

Furthermore the football equivalent of stewards enquiries is the FA and FIFA meetings/rulings which occur regularly in respect of match officials' decisions (e.g. appeals against red card) and players aberrant behaviour (e.g.Matthew Clarke, Howard Forinton and Scott Rickards fined and suspended for betting irregularities) and Clubs mismanagement (e.g. Leeds United and Nottingham Forest have both been charged following a mass confrontation between their two sets of players on 15th August).

[Ankou]

its sometimes difficult to create or detect cheating in football i think. look at that rugby bloke with the blodd capsule, who'd have thunk it eh.

their is money to be made on the oddities that can be manipulated, 1st throw in, 1st corner, or a corner at the exact minute etc and it is well known that some players were instructed to kick a ball into touch at a specific time. its difficult to prove it though aint it.

anyhow, bruce grobbelaar and john fashanu were found out years back, so football is not immune.

[andy-hughes]

A team game like football is far harder to 'fix' than cricket, where, as alleged, one player can pre-arrange to bowl in a certain way. For a football game to be fixed in a similar way - fouls, corners, etc. you would need the collusion of more than one player, and that's when it gets complicated, and far more likely to be exposed.

The queries in football are far more complex, and down to a split-second decision made at the time, which can be debated afterwards, and often is.

A 'no ball' in cricket, especially as obvious as the ones allegedly bowled by the players under investigation, are far more easy to assess.

[Gromit]

there have been investigations into refereeing decisions and betting irregularities

http://www.goal.com/e...efereeing-and-betting