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[Top Londoner]

Matthew Le Tissier has confessed that he attempted to beat the bookmakers with an audacious betting scam in a Southampton match against Wimbledon in 1995.

The former England and Southampton striker was blessed with an abundance of natural talent on the football pitch, but it let him down in spectacular fashion when he plotted to make £10,000 from deliberately kicking the ball out in a Premier League game some 14 years ago.

Le Tiss, who now works as a Sky Sports pundit, and a fellow teammate hatched a plan to win on the spread betting market on the time of the first throw-in.

‘The plan was for us to kick the ball straight into touch at the start of the game and then collect 56 times our stake. Easy money’ he says in his autobiography Taking Le Tiss.

‘Spread betting had just started to become popular. It was a new idea which allowed punters to back anything from the final score to the first throw-in.’

‘It was set up nicely. The ball was to be rolled back to me and I would smash it into touch. It seemed to be going like clockwork. We kicked off, the ball was tapped to me and I went to hit it out towards Neil Shipperley on the left wing.’

‘As it was live on television I didn’t want to make it too obvious or end up looking like a prat for miscuing the ball so I tried to hit it just over his head. But with so much riding on it I was a bit nervous and didn’t give it quite enough welly.’

‘The problem was that Shipperley knew nothing about the bet and managed to reach it and even head it back into play.’

‘I have never run so much in my life. If there had been Pro Zone analysis back then my stats would have been amazing for the next minute as I charged around the pitch desperately trying to kick the ball out of play.’

‘Suddenly it was no longer a question of winning money. We stood to lose a lot of cash if it went much longer than 75 seconds before the ball went out.’

‘Eventually we got the ball out on 70 seconds. The neutral time meant we had neither won nor lost. I have never tried spread betting since.’

[olgitgooner]

Fucked up link. Sorry

[DB10_TH14]

Plus the game in England is apparently Liverpool v Debrecen - how much fixing does it need and what are the profit margins like on Debrecen to lose at Anfield?

probably the bin dippers winning 1-0 would have been pretty decent odds, its normally pretty easy to see instances in other sports betting when a fix could be going on due to the unusual high volume of cash in the market. i seem to remember a tennis match with davydenko (when he was half decent) he was up a set and the other guy was fav for the match

[DB10_TH14]

Matthew Le Tissier has confessed that he attempted to beat the bookmakers with an audacious betting scam in a Southampton match against Wimbledon in 1995.

The former England and Southampton striker was blessed with an abundance of natural talent on the football pitch, but it let him down in spectacular fashion when he plotted to make £10,000 from deliberately kicking the ball out in a Premier League game some 14 years ago.

Le Tiss, who now works as a Sky Sports pundit, and a fellow teammate hatched a plan to win on the spread betting market on the time of the first throw-in.

‘The plan was for us to kick the ball straight into touch at the start of the game and then collect 56 times our stake. Easy money’ he says in his autobiography Taking Le Tiss.

‘Spread betting had just started to become popular. It was a new idea which allowed punters to back anything from the final score to the first throw-in.’

‘It was set up nicely. The ball was to be rolled back to me and I would smash it into touch. It seemed to be going like clockwork. We kicked off, the ball was tapped to me and I went to hit it out towards Neil Shipperley on the left wing.’

‘As it was live on television I didn’t want to make it too obvious or end up looking like a prat for miscuing the ball so I tried to hit it just over his head. But with so much riding on it I was a bit nervous and didn’t give it quite enough welly.’

‘The problem was that Shipperley knew nothing about the bet and managed to reach it and even head it back into play.’

‘I have never run so much in my life. If there had been Pro Zone analysis back then my stats would have been amazing for the next minute as I charged around the pitch desperately trying to kick the ball out of play.’

‘Suddenly it was no longer a question of winning money. We stood to lose a lot of cash if it went much longer than 75 seconds before the ball went out.’

‘Eventually we got the ball out on 70 seconds. The neutral time meant we had neither won nor lost. I have never tried spread betting since.’

TL on the ball as usual

[Top Londoner]

Cheers DB_TH.
Was sure that he told the story on Sky Saturday too.

[Chippy]

Anybody want to read the Daily Mail link at the beginning of the thread about the bin dippers game?

[northbank123]

Plus the game in England is apparently Liverpool v Debrecen - how much fixing does it need and what are the profit margins like on Debrecen to lose at Anfield?

probably the bin dippers winning 1-0 would have been pretty decent odds, its normally pretty easy to see instances in other sports betting when a fix could be going on due to the unusual high volume of cash in the market. i seem to remember a tennis match with davydenko (when he was half decent) he was up a set and the other guy was fav for the match

But presuming that the Mousers were innocent ( ) betting on 1-0 doesn't really make sense as it's hardly within Debrecen's control to keep it down to 1 goal.

Spread betting just lends itself so easily to crime. Surely nowhere near as enjoyable to bet on and much easier to fix.

[DB10_TH14]

Plus the game in England is apparently Liverpool v Debrecen - how much fixing does it need and what are the profit margins like on Debrecen to lose at Anfield?

probably the bin dippers winning 1-0 would have been pretty decent odds, its normally pretty easy to see instances in other sports betting when a fix could be going on due to the unusual high volume of cash in the market. i seem to remember a tennis match with davydenko (when he was half decent) he was up a set and the other guy was fav for the match

But presuming that the Mousers were innocent ( ) betting on 1-0 doesn't really make sense as it's hardly within Debrecen's control to keep it down to 1 goal.

Spread betting just lends itself so easily to crime. Surely nowhere near as enjoyable to bet on and much easier to fix.

in article someone posted from the mail, the bin dippers where meant to score 3

[StuartL]

Will probably be something like first throw in rather than a "game fixed"

Put a huge wager on Gervinho's first touch then.

[northbank123]

Will probably be something like first throw in rather than a "game fixed"

Put a huge wager on Gervinho's first touch then.

[1989]

If we play Santos against Bayern surely it would be deemded as match fixing?

[DB10_TH14]

If we play Santos against Bayern surely it would be deemded as match fixing?

what bout if santos and gervinho where on the pitch at the same time

[Top Londoner]

If we play Santos against Bayern surely it would be deemded as match fixing?

what bout if santos and gervinho where on the pitch at the same time

Euthanasia, for Le Prof ????

[I Hate Hleb]

If we play Santos against Bayern surely it would be deemded as match fixing?

[I Hate Hleb]

If we play Santos against Bayern surely it would be deemded as match fixing?

what bout if santos and gervinho where on the pitch at the same time

Then it would be classified as Suicide.