| Have you ever left a football match feeling the result was so unfair or bemusing that it must have been fixed? You could be right...  Match fixing is rapidly spreading: MATCH FIXERS PLAY ON A LOSER Match fixing is emerging everywhere football is played and can no longer be disregarded as one-offs. More often than not match fixing occurs in less prominent leagues and lower divisions and bets are set on teams to loose. It is all about calculating the odds. MATCH FIXING DATA BASE Play the Game has started a match fxing database. It tracks incidents of match fixing in football globally based on media reports.
We hope it will help establish patterns in match fixing and we invite you to help us developing it further.  PROFESSIONAL REFEREES TO COUNTER MATCH FIXING Sepp Blatter suggests that professional referees could put an end to match fixing. In England, the FA has a group of paid referees and so far no instances of match fixing. But in light of recent match fixing scandals, a refereeing career is short and may not pay enough to prevent future scandals. The betting industry is affected by match fixing: THE CHINESE GAMBLE SO MUCH ON FOOTBALL THAT NO ONE WANTS TO WATCH IT Chinese football has become a showcase of what happens when match fixing is allowed to continue for too long. Fans and sponsors have almost given up on the sport, and in a new attempt to turn the tide, the China Foolball Association (CFA) and the Chinese police set up a task force in October 2006 to stamp out football corruption. BETTING IS ALSO THREATENED BY MATCH FIXING Match fixing is an old practice that has become easier because it is possible gamble on losers. The fixing of matches has become easier and is rapidly becoming a serious threat to the sport.  Match fixing is a tactical game: MATCH FIXING TACTICS Declan Hill, former journalist and current Oxford University academic spoke in detail at the latest Play the Game conference about the mechanisms involved in fixing a football match, and the vast sums of money that can be made if a match is fixed well. | 
