Although the three Pakistani cricketers have been fingered together with their agent who, as in the murky world of football, orchestrated the criminalities, the real crooks remain untouched in Mumbai sitting on their betting market riches. These markets are illegal and underground. They pay no tax. They coerce, threaten and, as Bob Woolmer and Hansie Cronje found out, often take their mafiosi activities further.
The estimated annual betting turnover on cricket matches in the shadow Indian markets is estimated as $50 billion annually...
... on a peripheral sport globally like cricket.
In comparison, the illegal territories involved in the massive corruption of football spreads much wider - China, Antigua, Gibraltar, Tel Aviv, London, Moscow, Thailand, Macau, Eire, Georgia, Denmark, Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam etc etc etc.
Furthermore, one major match in one of the top leagues might gross $2.5 billion in the underground.
The annual global figure must run into TARP proportions...
... on a sports betting market.
Additionally, from the point of view of the fan, it doesn't greatly matter whether a particular delivery is a no-ball or not.
It doesn't influence the match result - it is the equivalent to John Colquhoun's boast about making money on the spread markets by arranging for the ball to be kicked into touch straight from the kick off having sold seconds on the time of the first throw-in on the spread markets.
No, in football the major corruption is based on the match result and, to a lesser extent, the total goals market.
The impact of this criminality is massive.
In a court of law, numerous parties would have claim against the perpetrators of match-fixing - fans, leagues, authorities, other clubs, legal betting companies, tv broadcasters, other bettors and the advertisers who have their products besmirched by the greed of the great and the good.
But don't take our word for it, listen to Pierre Cornu, the lawyer tasked with fighting corruption in football on behalf of UEFA.
He states: "I don't think that we will be able to eradicate this problem. We don't pretend. It's just everywhere. It's like drug trafficking. There will always be drug addicts. The only way to not bring people to court is the legalise drug trafficking."
He continued that corruption risks damaging "the very soul of sports" and will jeopardise funding for football. Cornu claims that the criminalities are arranged via corrupt match officials although, at a club and English international level, it is agents and players alongside referees who are the orchestrators of the deconstruction of the beautiful game.
Exactly who regulates companies like Goldchip (a betting vehicle targeting England games fronted by Steve Smith and Michael Owen)?
Michal Krejza, head of sport unit at the European Commission, claimed he is powerless to act because he has "very limited intelligence" on the problem and is hamstrung by treaties which ban the EU from dictating nations' sports rules.
This is how FIFA under Blatter, Warner, bin Hammam, Blazer etc are able to corrupt globally to the advantage of their own wallets and it is how Richard Scudamore at the Premier League is able to market his corrupted product without any fear of external regulation.
According to the Telegraph (which broke the Cornu revelation), "These extraordinary admissions came minutes after a representative of the Polish Presidency of the EU pleaded for greater co-operation to tackle corruption, including reforming member states' legal codes and giving referees short notice on which matches they are due to officiate."
This would have a major impact.
A major fiddle was attempted on a Carling Cup match this season.
One club via their primary agent controlled both the opposing goalkeeper and the match referee and money from the corruption surfaced at the betting company that sponsors the dodgy team abusing all other participants or observers of the event.
Despite a penalty being given, the manipulators were left with Bad Egg on their faces.
Although we have much information on this match, including some from somebody who has knowledge of the scam, to whistleblow to the FA, UEFA, the PGMOB (who 'allowed' the match official to be placed) would be fruitless.
The criminalised club obviously have some considerable control over the choice of match officials as the above official has also been given the influential 4th Official slot at EPL games involving the said club on two occasions already this season.
In total our official has had appointments at five matches involving EPL teams this season - three of these matches involve our criminalised club!
And the man's historical decision-making on matches involving this club have been detailed on these pages in the past.
Of course, it is merely the same as the world of international finance.
Last week, MF Global became the biggest financial collapse since Lehman Brothers.
The Economist: "MF's demise comes less than two years after it was intentionally transformed from a dull instituitional broker to an ambitious investment bank" by ex-Goldman Sachs operative Jon Corzine.
Mr Corzine was even spoken about as a prospective treasury secretary under Obama, following in the footsteps of the two ex-Goldman Sachs mercenaries who would have been his predecessors.
There was a staggering 40-fold leverage on the speculative activities of MF Global- this is equivalent to getting your bookmaker to offer you $4 million exposure to the markets on a cash security of just 100K.
And, inevitably, over $700 million has disappeared never to be found again.
The Economist: "That a primary dealer could be so leveraged may well prompt questions about the New York Fed's scrutiny of firms it routinely deals with."
That certain allegedly respected individuals in the British game could be so corrupt may well prompt questions about the Premier League's and the FA's scrutiny of clubs and individuals it routinely deals with...
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