Football fraud: Rather than venting behind closed doors, Expose it

It is that time of the season whereby all sorts of stories, accusations, allegations and conspiracy theories about match fixing and games being sold comes to fore. It is very tight at the top and at the bottom and indications are already there that some parties feel aggrieved and have already started churning out ‘stories’ of untoward events. It looks like it is going to go down to the wire, and as is expected every decision and every result will be scrutinised with stories and opinions formed. Sometimes justifiably so and sometimes unjustifiably so. Football is a sport of emotions and sometimes when our teams lose or do not get favourable results, we tend to look for excuses and for a scapegoat.

Over the past few weeks, there have been accusations and suggestions that some matches have been fixed, or some officials are helping some teams to get results. The other week, some teams, that are sitting precariously at the bottom positions won games scoring an avalanche of goals in their games, and there were ‘stories’ of cheating. For purposes of this piece, I will call them ‘stories’ as they remain unsubstantiated.

At the top half, some teams have benefitted from the rub of the green and got a favourable decision here and there and once again ‘stories’ came out that they were ‘buying’ results. Unfortunately I’m not party to such allegations, atleast until they are proven, and I sometimes feel that our frustrations as football supporters have the better of us and we make up ‘stories’. I might be wrong: but I feel that if someone has genuine suspicions that some matches have been fixed or the BPL or officials are conniving with some teams to fix results, then they should speak up and present some evidence.

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