Reddit reviews The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime
We found 7 Reddit comments about The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Reddit reviews The Fix: Soccer and Organized CrimeWe found 7 Reddit comments about The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Everyone in this thread should go buy and read The Fix by Declan Hill. It's a great book (I'm only half-way through it), but he talks about corruption in soccer and how it relates and functions like organized crime.
Asia is by far the worst and is one of the most corrupt areas with many matches fixed and leagues in the dumps now. Yes, there are mentions of Italy, but like people in this thread talk about, your naive to think it's the only area this happens. It's huge in the former Yugoslavia-nations of Russia, Ukraine, etc.
History has shown that the same activities take place in England, in some cases, involving the biggest teams (ie. Man United, Liverpool, etc). Very likely not recently, but the author mentions ties in the past that big England teams were involved in so it's not rare to exclude them from the discussion.
Note: Reading this book will MESS up your mind. You'll never look at football the same again. Once you know every small way a game can be thrown (which the author discusses), and you can recognize odd patterns that are normally present in matches that are fixed (author analyzed statistics), you will definitely be affected. You've been warned.
After reading this I would not be surprised if sports-fixing does take place. When considering the sheer amount of money involved the likelihood that all of the games and all of the players are 100% clean ethically (or medically) is almost nil.
That being said, I do not have anything to prove corruption among the officials or the NFL administrators. If something were to come to light it would not surprise me in the least though.
No, no. It's rigged. The Brazil flameout came as a surprise to a lot of people. By the time you get to even the quarter finals a lot of the matches go to penalties simply because the teams are so evenly matched at that point. For Brazil to be beaten 7-1 is so outside the norm that something had to be going on. I can't figure out what, though. If you're really interested, read The Fix by Declan Hill.
There's a whole book that covers this and other nefarious involvement in football called The Fix by Declan Hill. I haven't read it in years but I really enjoyed it.
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Read this... which includes a fixed match at the 2006 World Cup.
https://www.amazon.ca/Fix-Soccer-Organized-Crime/dp/077104139X
I've heard it said that the best way to fix corruption in FIFA is to ditch Addidas for Puma. Actually, he said it was probably the only way. The author of ... hang a sec ... Declan Hill
Read my other comment. Don't be gullible; just because you don't know it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Read "The Fix" for further info.