Spot Fixing?

[GordoninPortsmouth]

there was an article in the Daily Mirror this morning comparing Cricket with WWE Wrestling

talking about fans attending events with a fixed outcome, can't get much worse than that !!

Slightly less homo erotic than the WWE

Jimmy Anderson is trying his best.

[sussexpob]

there was an article in the Daily Mirror this morning comparing Cricket with WWE Wrestling

talking about fans attending events with a fixed outcome, can't get much worse than that !!

Slightly less homo erotic than the WWE

Jimmy Anderson is trying his best.

Someone had to take up the mantle now Brett Lee retired

[yorker_129-7]

So, who cares about the match tomorrow? Any other series this tight would have been brilliant, but this just all feels wrong now. Pakistan have out-stayed their welcome, and I for one won't be sorry when they've cleared off and we can get back to what should be an excellent winter of cricket ahead.

[SaintPowelly]

So, who cares about the match tomorrow? Any other series this tight would have been brilliant, but this just all feels wrong now. Pakistan have out-stayed their welcome, and I for one won't be sorry when they've cleared off and we can get back to what should be an excellent winter of cricket ahead.

I agree, except cricket will be haunted by this - regardless of whether Pakistan are involved in the match or not.

India-Australia
Australia-Sri Lanka
Australia-England
SA-Zimbabwe

and any other international fixtures (that I cant remember without researching) will still be tainted by this, so Im not expecting a great winter of cricket and until the trio are dealt with fully and the game can move forward (if it can) I expect alot of players just 'going through the motions'

[Alviro Patterson]

What would you do in this situation?

Imagine you are a club cricketer (there may be a few on this board). You go out to bat at the start of the innings and a guy in the crowd offers you £100 to get out in the first over. What would you do?

a) Get yourself out and take the money. It's only a club game after all and you will have plenty of other innings.

b) Tell him where to stick his money. Honesty is the best policy.

Some cricketers reckon they'd fix matches for a tenner

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/spo ... 008313048/

[Aidan11]

So, who cares about the match tomorrow? Any other series this tight would have been brilliant, but this just all feels wrong now. Pakistan have out-stayed their welcome, and I for one won't be sorry when they've cleared off and we can get back to what should be an excellent winter of cricket ahead.

Don't worry, it will be all over by tonight. The match, that is. No doubt the controversy will roll on for weeks until we get pasted in the first Ashes test.

[englandmad666]

Im sorry to all those pakistan fans who love the game and just want to watch cricket, but after this tour the PCB and the pakistan team needed to be suspended until all investigations are complete and finished.

What butt said the other day made my blood boil, i was sat there reading it on a beach in egypt and i felt cheap and dirty for still supporting the pakistan team in there efforts to continue the tour, if its true i apologise but its just a pack of lies and for a member of the pcb to try and drag englands players into it who in fairness have been very dignifed and just tried to play cricket well its outrage.

End this tour today and kick them out.

[Aidan11]

Coming Soon to Pakistan TV this Autumn -

MAJEED'LL FIX IT

Based on the BBC TV show made famous in the 70's by Jimmy Saville, this show is based on similar lines but with a twist. Instead of youngsters going round abbatoirs to find out how dead horses get turned into cat meat, this show rewards young talented cricketers (and some old ones) for proving they are up to the task required of their host.

At the end of the show they are all rewarded with a "I Fixed it for Majeed" badge.

Allegedly, of course.

[Albondiga]

I guess it would also come down to how you would feel about betraying your team mates.

I think it's more a case of betraying yourself.

There is a saying "" every man has his price"" ------ to that I would add that ""but you could never afford me""

[sussexpob]

I guess it would also come down to how you would feel about betraying your team mates.

I think it's more a case of betraying yourself.

There is a saying "" every man has his price"" ------ to that I would add that ""but you could never afford me""

I guess your price to be about 324 pounds?

[D/L]

I guess it would also come down to how you would feel about betraying your team mates.

I think it's more a case of betraying yourself.

There is a saying "" every man has his price"" ------ to that I would add that ""but you could never afford me""

I guess your price to be about 324 pounds?

Unless I very much miss my guess, I'd say that Albondiga, like myself, would deal only in guineas, SP.

[Durhamfootman]

I guess it would also come down to how you would feel about betraying your team mates.

I think it's more a case of betraying yourself.

There is a saying "" every man has his price"" ------ to that I would add that ""but you could never afford me""

I guess your price to be about 324 pounds?

Unless I very much miss my guess, I'd say that Albondiga, like myself, would deal only in guineas, SP.

nicely done boys

[Albondiga]

I guess it would also come down to how you would feel about betraying your team mates.

I think it's more a case of betraying yourself.

There is a saying "" every man has his price"" ------ to that I would add that ""but you could never afford me""

I guess your price to be about 324 pounds?

Unless I very much miss my guess, I'd say that Albondiga, like myself, would deal only in guineas, SP.

nicely done boys

D/L has said it all really --- you couldn't afford him either.


I don't want to labour the point but just where did you get 324 from?
Is it
Number of days in a year minus Sundays plus Bank Holidays or something similar ????

[st_brendy]

Wow. I've just noticed that I started this thread off. I didn't even realise that.

[sussexpob]

D/L has said it all really --- you couldn't afford him either.


I don't want to labour the point but just where did you get 324 from?
Is it
Number of days in a year minus Sundays plus Bank Holidays or something similar ????

Its from a show called Peep Show..... obviously a cultural reference that flew over everyones head.