29Jul

The Normalization of Corruption: Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump’s Destruction of the Beautiful Game

The Selling Off of FIFA to the Kushner Family and Donald Trump is the end of credibility in the World Cup and FIFA This is the end. The proposed plan to sell off a section of FIFA to a group of investors led by Donald Trump’s son-in-law is the end of the credibility of Gianni Infantino’s FIFA. How can we take such an organization seriously? Remember the Folarin Balogun red card scandal where Donald Trump phoned up Gianni to get the one game suspension...

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24Jul

The Odd Odds Movements: Three Games in the World Cup had massive shifts in gambling odds

While the world focused on 'Red card gate', Donald Trump, Gianni Infantino and the scandal around Folarin Balogun, there were three games at the FIFA World Cup tournament that had strange, massive odds movements. Funny, you should mention that…. The New York Times’ Jacob Whitehead has just come out with an excellent article about betting irregularities at the FIFA World Cup. It came out the very day that I was posting an article on the same subject. The team at the...

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11Jun

The Seven Secrets of Why There Will be Match-Fixers at the World Cup: Part 3 – No one is stopping them

The match-fixers were at the last men's FIFA World Cup in America. They will be back. There are more teams. The gambling market is larger. And no one is stopping them. Match-fixers approached players on the Swedish team before the 3rd place match in the 1994 FIFA World Cup Finals It was - theoretically - the second most important game at the tournament: The 3rd place match on July 16,1994. The game was between Sweden and Bulgaria. It was a...

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21May

The Seven Secrets of Why There Will be Match-Fixing at the World Cup – Part 2

Match-fixing has a long, ignoble history at the FIFA World Cup. The fixers are intelligent, well-resourced and well-connected. Some of the football officials are deeply corrupt. There have been fixers coming to almost every FIFA international tournament since at least 1991. They have approached hundreds of players, coaches, and referees. In 1995 at the World Youth Championship in Doha, Qatar. Two young Portuguese players had been invited up to a room to discuss an interesting proposition by two attractive young Malay...

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11May

The Seven Secrets of Why There Will be Match-Fixing at the World Cup – Part 1

Of course, there will be match fixing at the FIFA World Cup - Why wouldn’t there be? Sports gambling/betting, corruption, under-paid players, its all legal! Match-Fixing at the World Cup So what you want, we can deliver to you. After this match, I have a game in the Under-20 World Cup… So Under-20 World Cup first two games they will play, so after the third game, they will do for us because XXXX is our team (names...

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02May

Sportradar, the ‘Nice Mafia’ Problem, & Another Dark Secret at the Heart of the Gambling Industry

Sportradar is facing massive pushback after two controversial reports on their business practices It’s big. It’s huge. If the short sellers’ reports by Muddywaters and Callisto are true, this is the end of Sportradar. There is no possible way for the company to survive. Note, please, the - if these reports are true - part. However, the vultures are circling. America being America, class action lawyers have set up shop trawling for customers. Three different sets of government regulators are - purportedly -...

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16Mar

What Tim Donaghy’s Scandal Reveals About America

An exclusive interview with Tim Donaghy, the NBA referee who gambled with Mafia-connected bookmakers - Sports betting, NBA tanking, US Corruption It is the $64 million dollar question.   The audience, mostly sleepy tennis executives and sales people on an early Sunday morning in the near-empty conference center, leaned forward, when I asked it to Tim Donaghy.   Tim Donaghy, the former National Basketball Association (NBA) referee who had worked with gamblers connected with organized crime, and I were on stage together this weekend. ...

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10Mar

Why US Sports Are Going to Fail

American sports leagues are dancing with the devil. Their commercial interests with bookmakers are clear conflict of interest. This blog is a podcast episode I did recently with The Protectors Podcast. Enjoy! But do note - the transcript is loosey-goosey! Today joins us to break down the wave of recent standards. From college athletes running books with the Mob to NBA coaches and players allegedly providing insider information and even major league pitchers accused of manipulating outcomes pitch...

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26Nov

Journalist Attacked on the Streets of Kuala Lumpur

Haresh Deol was assaulted by two masked men after investigating the corruption in Malaysian Football. It is difficult to overstate the corruption in Malaysia. Today, it got worse. My friend and colleague #Haresh Deol was attacked on the streets of Kuala Lumpur by two masked men. It was an assault on a superb journalist doing really good investigations. Keep strong, brother Haresh. https://twentytwo13.my/calls-mount-for-answers-after-brazen-assault-on-twentytwo13-editor-haresh-deol/

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10Nov

We are all the Turkish Football League Now: Why the Match-Fixing Tsunami Continues in Sports

Sports around the world are in danger: Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, NCAA, UFC and soccer/football in 33 countries. Here are the facts that no one else will tell you. “When you want to fix, go to the country where it is easiest.” It was the day after a major Champions League game. The final round of the old-formatted, group stages where most teams had nothing to play for. I was talking to one of the biggest Asian match-fixers. He told...

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