Just get it into your thick skull that all is not what it seems in sport mate. Let that sink in as you climb into your single bed tonight.
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You can’t even come up with one 
You’re in over your head here mate
It kills you not to have the last word.
Why would i divulge what i know to a clown like you? Just get it into your brain or what passes for a brain in your skull that all is not as it seems with sports. Just because you’re clueless on most issues doesn’t mean someone else is equally so, or someone from rural Limerick for example. I’m not getting into it in detail but you’ll take that as some kind of victory that i’m bluffing. There’s enough people here that know i’m not bluffing. But don’t tell him why this is lads.
Now have the last word and try to make it a good one.
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So you think he has 10 other world sporting organisations who have been systematically hiding match fixing? Fuck it so, if he has this will he fascinating to hear and I’ll happily apologise to him.
The article makes the point, tennis is quite unique in how easy it is to fix compared to other sports
This is more of a reason for it to be fixed. I know of at least one universities game that was fixed in recent years. @maroonandwhite also mentioned a football league game on here before that had a freak result where the losing team weren’t all that fussed - although that was more throwing the game that it being fixed.
No sport is 100% clean of match fixing but what i’m saying is that GAA would have minuscule cases of this in relation to what’s going on is my point. Agree that it will have happened more than once in our sacred sport too.
It can happen at any sport. I am not surprised to hear this is happening in Tennis. The money for the guys outside the top players is crap. Some of the tournaments on the Challenger tour cost the players more to get too than there is prize money.
Murray was saying last year that there should be a prize fund set up that all the top earning players pay a certain percentage into and then that fund is used to top up the prize money for the lower tournaments on the tour. I can understand some lad battling away on the challenger tour earning a pittance being offered 50 grand say to throw a game here or there. On that sort of money they could get a coach for a year.
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People + money = corruption.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s sport or business.
I was reading about that Irish fella getting to the final round of qualifying the other day and I was wondering what kind of wedge would you get for that so I looked it up. The answer is nothing. You get €6k if you win the first round proper. €6k!!! It’d hardly pay your flights and accommodation. Poor bastard is ranked like 199th in the World and I’d say losing a fortune every year just by playing. If someone offered the likes of him €10k to take a dive when he likely wasn’t going anywhere anyway it’d be hard to say no.
I think ya have that wrong there, that very low. Thats what he might have got for getting so far in the qualifiers. If you make the main draw of the Australian open and loose in the first round you get $34,500 Aussie dollars and when converted into real money is €21,777. Which is still low. I think Mcgee said that the got €40,000 for reaching the first round of the US Open last year.
2015 Wimbledon Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Prize Money
Amounts in Pound Sterling with US Dollar equivalents. Percentage indicates the increase in Pound Sterling when compared to 2014.
Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Singles
Winner – £1,880,000 ($2,935,000) 7%
Runner-up – £940,000 ($1,468,000) 7%
Semi-Finalists – £470,000 ($734,000) 7%
Quarter Finalists – £241,000 ($376,000) 7%
4th Round – £127,000 ($198,000) 9%
3rd Round – £77,000 ($120,000) 8%
2nd Round – £47,000 ($73,000) 9%
1st Round – £29,000 ($45,300) 7%
I don’t know where I got that from so
3 nice posts on Friday. Unreal stuff altogether like
The only reversing Rafa has done in Australia is out of the tournament first round.
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Britians Andy Murray in a battle here in the second set
omg!
jesus that Mauresmo is some rotten looking yolk