Match Fixing: A Threat to Sports

The provided text discusses the serious issue of match-fixing in various sports. It explores the detrimental effects on athletes, organizations, sponsors, and fans. The essay examines how match-fixing erodes public trust, discourages investment, and creates a negative image for sports. From an ethical standpoint, it highlights the betrayal of values and principles central to fair play. The marketing implications are discussed in terms of lost revenue, brand damage, and dwindling fan interest.

Contemporary Sport
Issues Critical
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Match Fixing...............................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The contemporary issues which are related with the sports activity are linked with
managing all the activities which are related with sports. There are various issues which are
related with sports like matching fixing. Under match fixing outsiders takes his batting on the
basis of the informations which he had granted with the help of internal sources. This report will
contains about the contemporary issues with sports and this is also linked under the unfair trade
practices (Carpenter, 2012).
Arguments are made on Match Fixing
The organisations which are dealing with the sports activity there is always a match
fixing between the parties when the matches are not completed or there results are stopped from
announcing to the general public. The vital reasons is to get the play-off from all the match
fixers. But all the players are performing the activities in bade ways at the international levels so
that they can get the benefits in the future times. This can be related with better draft pick or an
easy opponent in the process of play off. The players can also not perform well in order to rig the
systems of handicaps.
The fixing of matches are motivated by the gambling and they requires transferring of
money in order to achieve it. It is a deal between the players, referees and the team officials.
These transfers can be founded easily and this can be lead by the prosecutions of the sports
league or the laws which are made in relation to gambling. In the case if these loose the match
than they had the advantages for the future times which are very much critical to be chosen. The
substitutions which are driven by the coaches are designed in order to increase the chances where
the team will be lose in relation to that their key players are suited out, injuries to any of the
sports persons etc. In relation to giving the orders the players underperform at the international
levels. These are the main factors which have been alleged.
Match fixing is related with fixing the results in advance about which team will win and
which will loose the game. This can also be described as sports fix that involves the fixing of
small events or task in the match. This can be easily gambled but they are not decisive in
analysing the last and the final outcomes (Feustel, 2014).
Various other names are related with this aspects like race fix, game fixing, hippodrome.
The competition is under the big questions if it is in any race than it is known as race fixing. The
games which had been lost are often named as the thrown games. When the team lost their
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games at the international levels or they are not able to obtain high scores than they are able to
obtain the advantages in order to achieve the competitive positions. This is known as the team
had tanked the game and actually they were supposed to have thrown it if they were not
successful on their part. In the pool hustling methods the concept of tanking is called as the
dumping. In the sports activities where the handicap systems are existing and they had the
capacity to get abused. The concept which is linked with tanking is also called as sandbagging.
The main motivations which are linked with the fixing of matches are called as gambling.
Agreements with the Gamblers
If there are agreements with the gamblers than they can achieve financial gains. The very
much infamous is about North Americas was called as the black scandal of the year 1919. In this
there was a match fixing by various team members of Chicago as they had fixed the result of the
world test series.
One of the vital examples of gambling is related with the fixing of the races in game of
motor-sports at the Tripoli grand in this the lottery which had to be wined was evaluated by the
cars which were successful in winning the races which were held between the motorcars.
Protection from manipulation:
If the pre matches betting are evaluated effectively than there are chances that the match
which has been fixed can be easily detected. It is also possible to find out the current situations if
there is any manipulation practise in the matches by analysing the betting in the internal markets
(Rodenberg, 2014).
Issues which are related with match fixing and there marketing implications in relation to
games like football and cricket
Lack of transparency: If there is match fixing than people will not show there interest in
playing the games as they know that the results are already fixed in advance thus they will not
waste there time by involving themselves in these types of activities.
Player Safety: There is no safety of the players who are involved in the max fixing as
they know they the final results are being decided in advances thus they had no choices and there
is no safety as the other team players will have the fight is they were winning the match but were
not successful at the end.
Marketing Implications
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If there is match fixing in any game than it creates a bad image in market and persons
will not like to invest their hard earned money in these games as they know that the results rae
already decided in advance thus there will be no enjoyment in playing games like cricket,
football, volleyball etc.
Ethical perspective of the issues from writers view points.
According to Breuer (2013). There are various implications for the sports organisation as
no one is taking charge of sponsoring them as they have created there bad images abort match
fixing and people know about it they had already analysed who will be the final winner in this
thus no one is showing there interest.
According to Feustel, (2014) If the organisations are involved in match fixing than it will
decrease there profit ratios as there will be less no of respondents. This match is played in order
to achieve personal gains.
CONCLUSION
In some countries match fixing is the main crime because it diverts the minds of the
players who are performing for the country. Match fixers approach one or more players
internally for losing the match in any fields which are related with sports. It is the best
entertainment which are related with the sports. Large number of people spent huge amount of
money in various sports like cricket, football, badminton at national and international level.
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REFRENCES
Books and Journals
Carpenter, K. (2012). Match-Fixing—The Biggest Threat to Sport in the 21st Century?.
Internacional Sports Law Review, 2, 13-23.
Hill, D. (2013). The Insider's Guide to Match-fixing in Football. Anne McDermid & Associates
Limited.
McNamee, M. (2013). The integrity of sport: Unregulated gambling, match fixing and
corruption.
Rodenberg, R. M., & Feustel, E. D. (2014). FORENSIC SPORTS ANALYTICS: DETECTING
AND PREDICTING MATCH-FIXING IN TENNIS. Journal of prediction
markets, 8(1).
Forrest, D. (2013). Match fixing: An economics perspective. In Match-Fixing in International
Sports (pp. 177-197). Springer International Publishing.
Breuer, C., & Hallmann, K. (2013). Dysfunktionen des Spitzensports: Doping, Match-Fixing und
Gesundheitsgefährdungen aus Sicht von Bevölkerung und Athleten. Bundesinst. f.
Sportwiss..
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