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| − | Can you still remember | + | Can you still can remember the days each time a football game only agreed to be a football game? I mean, it had been a genuine contest between two rivals and the fans had no vested curiosity about how the game can do with the bookmakers. These were the periods when fans were real fans and never betters. these were the times if you knew that match fixing won't ever happen since there was no financial reason to do this. These days, its an incredibly different story altogether. In many ways, sport now exist because of betting.<br><br>While horse racing happens to be a sport that trusted betting, it's now overshadowed by major sports with mass appeal that is drawing in a great deal of interest from the bookmakers. With horse racing, the unknown factor with the horse caused it to be something exciting and thrilling plus it added that unpredictable factor that is suited to betting.<br><br>When you are looking for regular sports, we all know that this human factor is going to be involved along with the lure of a lot of money will always be at play. When South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje was caught in the match fixing scandal it shook the joy of cricket and sport all over the world. Many claim that it was just the tip with the iceberg and sboarena the man copped it for a great deal of other folks. With Australians Steve Waugh and Shane Warne also implicated, the matter was quickly swept within the table to save face with fans.<br><br>How deep and how wide match mixing really goes no person will truly know. The question is whether or not it really belongs in sport where athletes can fix games. Is it changing sport forever? Is it changing sport for that better? Yes, its driving a great deal of money into sports in case its dirty money it may well just hurt sport permanently and reach a spot where fans lose their confidence inside honesty from the contest. |
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Can you still can remember the days each time a football game only agreed to be a football game? I mean, it had been a genuine contest between two rivals and the fans had no vested curiosity about how the game can do with the bookmakers. These were the periods when fans were real fans and never betters. these were the times if you knew that match fixing won't ever happen since there was no financial reason to do this. These days, its an incredibly different story altogether. In many ways, sport now exist because of betting.
While horse racing happens to be a sport that trusted betting, it's now overshadowed by major sports with mass appeal that is drawing in a great deal of interest from the bookmakers. With horse racing, the unknown factor with the horse caused it to be something exciting and thrilling plus it added that unpredictable factor that is suited to betting.
When you are looking for regular sports, we all know that this human factor is going to be involved along with the lure of a lot of money will always be at play. When South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje was caught in the match fixing scandal it shook the joy of cricket and sport all over the world. Many claim that it was just the tip with the iceberg and sboarena the man copped it for a great deal of other folks. With Australians Steve Waugh and Shane Warne also implicated, the matter was quickly swept within the table to save face with fans.
How deep and how wide match mixing really goes no person will truly know. The question is whether or not it really belongs in sport where athletes can fix games. Is it changing sport forever? Is it changing sport for that better? Yes, its driving a great deal of money into sports in case its dirty money it may well just hurt sport permanently and reach a spot where fans lose their confidence inside honesty from the contest.
