The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[The Fury]

Ka-pi96 said:

The Fury said:

I always wonder about this one. Because... well, footballers aren't the most intelligent people and well, sometimes, they just don't know. Especially if they are younger footballers who don't know all the rules.

Well betting on your own team isn`t really that bad. Providing you`re betting on them to win of course. Then there`s just an extra financial incentive to play well, I don`t see a problem with that.

Betting on your team to lose however... that just reeks of match fixing.

It might come down not to just wins or loses but other things, which is what a lot of match fixing actually is. Like number of yellows, corners, throw ins etc. Things that are essentially easy to fix. Place a bet on yourself to get a yellow card in a game, do a few too many hard tackles until you get one. But betting on yourself just because you don't know the rules is a little different to being paid to do it by someone else.