Tiktukno - summary of today's events in sports, 19.1 (Sport1)
A cold Saturday, March 2000, a field that is no longer played on.
On the grass, two groups are tired of life.
The guest finished the season even before Sukkot, the host is desperate for points at the bottom of the league.
It was one of the weirdest games I've ever seen in my life.
The guest did everything to give the host.
Except for scoring an own goal.
So much so that at one point the visiting captain, a player with a magnificent international record, got nervous about the incompetence of the host team, and burst into his team's 16 square with the ball, in a desperate attempt to lose the ball so that someone would score a goal.
It did not work.
Deep in the extra time, one of the visiting players entered the square, handed the captain inside the five-point box, and the poor man - who really wanted to help - had to pass the same brakeman twice and the goalkeeper once before he realized that no one would even be able to steal from him, and he had no choice left, but push the ball in.
The guest, who tried very hard to give the game away, won without a choice.
It's been a few years.
This time the hostess from the previous story was already at sea, and in front of her was a group that had already disappeared.
The whole world knew that this time the one who needed the points would win, huge sums of money changed hands, everyone marked a strong "2" on the game.
In real time, the radio broadcaster on "Shirim and Sha'ir" (there used to be such a program, what do you know), found himself shouting, at about the 20th minute, something along the lines of "The linesman, the referee and the right defender of the host look like they are doing it on purpose".
how did it end
The guest was unable to score, and towards the end one of her players made a penalty that ranged from "strange" to "absurd".
The host won the penalty, and contrary to everything that was said that week - won the game.
Scary to think how much money the bookies made on this game.
And of course, how is it possible without a good friend, no matter what denomination, who is convinced that all NBA results are determined by the whims of the analysts sitting in Vegas.
The man, who runs a neat notebook that compares the lines given to the games of the best basketball league in the world, has been trying for several years to systematically track the expected sales of games in the NBA.
He was not able to buy a villa in Caesarea from this, but at least he was able to instill in his circle of acquaintances the two sayings of the Shafer "Yota is dead" and "Jack Nicholson is dead", in recognition of two of the groups that brought him down more than all of them.
These three stories, along with many others, surfaced after I watched the shocking investigation (not really) by "Zeman Emet" in the corporation surrounding the sale of Israeli soccer games.
Who would have guessed that in the age of the Internet, when half of the teams are controlled in one way or another by less pleasant types, there are still game sales, as if we are in the 60s and 70s, and soon an Etzioni committee will be convened "to investigate the rumors regarding giving money payments to tilt games in the National Football League".
Sales were, are and will be, in all sports and in all places.
But it was impossible to say that in the investigation, and therefore the entire cover was dramatic: for field security reasons, the secrecy of the interviewees who told how they received envelopes of cash or a vacation at Shaul's estate on the northern border was kept secret, the voices were distorted, faces were pixelated, and threatening sound was added to each scene.
What is said and what shall we say, fine drama.
Here is a wild bet: since this investigation did not innovate anything, nothing will happen around it either.
Just nothing.
An investigative committee will not be established, the police will not intervene (however, there are football fans who can be blown up outside the stadiums, like this week at Teddy, which is much more important and easier), the association will not lift a finger (who will be given a radius here, Chico Mehbatim?), and legal gambling They will continue to be ruled by an indifferent monopoly, whose merchandise, in an age of such accessible information, tempts quite a few people to take the risk and check out the illegal options.
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Do you want a solution to the lack of ability of the police and the association to handle it?
Here is one that will improve the situation a little: list the legal gambling in Israel.
Take the sting out of the illegal factors.
You will force the "Sports Betting Settlement Council" to make an effort to give betting ratios that are comparable to those of the leading betting houses in the world, thus leaving the money "white".
Obviously, when less money flows into the illegal gambling, it will be possible to have less influence (relatively speaking, we are not naive) on the results of the games.
The Israeli fear of the privatization of legal gambling is incomprehensible.
The gambling industry finances football all over the world.
The Council for the Settlement of Sports Betting pours money into football here, and without reading agreements with other league managers, it is enough to see that a significant part of the teams advertise betting houses on their game shirts (40% of the Premier League teams, for example).
Add to that the fact that the money that gamblers invest in illegal gambling is money that the state does not earn tax on, and here is another good motivation to legalize the whole business (after all, the money is spilled anyway!).
The taxes can be designated as a return investment to Israeli sports.
Just like the Gambling Council, only in many times larger amounts.
And there are quite a few more reasons, and it is possible to sit down in a professional, qualified, analytical way and examine the viability of such a move and its scope and the short and long-term effects on the economy, etc.
But apparently they didn't just give a ratio of 1.05 in Wiener that nothing would happen.
Too bad.
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