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the battle against match-fixing - can it be won?

Published on 2012-02-09 18:10:00

Some damning stats in this article from BBC Sport. This is a fight FIFA are no more likely to win than the Occupy groups are to takeover the world's financial districts or someone to achieve world peace....Report shows match-fixing rife in Southern and Eastern EuropeThe true scale of match-fixing, racism and violence in European football has been revealed in new statistical research due to be released on Tuesday.FIFPro, the worldwide union for professional footballers, conducted a survey of thou

Offshore betting tax and levy bill introduced in the Commons

Published on 2012-02-07 18:54:00

A long-touted, but never developed until now, Bill to bring offshore betting from UK residents into line has been introduced in the Commons by @matthancockmp. The crux of the plan is to stop the big High St bookies skiving offshore and avoiding paying tax and levy on wagers which pass through their servers in havens like Gibraltar with a much kinder tax rate. Almost all the big betting firms now run their online and/or telephone betting operations outside of the UK, paying tax and levy only on t

Betfair dropping out of South Africa.. for now

Published on 2012-02-07 17:53:00

If you're living in, or planning to visit, South Africa after next week, you'll have a problem trying to use Betfair. With sports betting licences now being granted to foreign companies (Ladbrokes and Sportingbet are two of the early licensees), the world's biggest betting exchange are in the process of applying for a traditional sportsbook licence. While that is in progress, they will be blocking access from within South Africa, in order to keep on the right side of local authorities.Betfair to