Can you still remember the days every time a football game was just a football game? I mean, it had been a real contest between two rivals along with the fans had no vested curiosity about the way the game can do while using bookmakers. These were the periods when fans were real fans and not betters. they were the times if you knew that match fixing will never happen because there was no financial reason to take action. These days, its an extremely different story altogether. In many ways, sport now exist as a result of betting.

While horse racing is definitely an activity that relied on betting, it is currently overshadowed by major sports with mass appeal that is drawing in a lot of interest in the bookmakers. With horse racing, the unknown factor from the horse made it something exciting and thrilling and it added that unpredictable factor that's suited to betting.

When you are looking at regular sports, you know the human factor is going to be involved along with the lure of lots of money will always be at play. When South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje was caught inside match fixing scandal it shook the world of cricket and sport all over the world. Many are convinced that it was just the tip from the iceberg anf the husband copped it for sboarena lots of other people. With Australians Steve Waugh and Shane Warne also implicated, the problem was quickly swept under the table to avoid wasting face with fans.

How deep and how wide match mixing really goes no-one will truly know. The question is whether it really belongs in sport where athletes can fix games. Is it changing sport forever? Is it changing sport for your better? Yes, its driving a great deal of money into sports in case its dirty money it might just hurt sport permanently and reach a place where fans lose their confidence in the honesty from the contest.