by alwayslfc » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:29 am
Liverpool beat the reigning champions away, thrashed by a bottom club, thrashed the league leaders, lost to not so well known Portugese side. It's all a yoyo performance. I hope it is true that Pool are just too inconsistent due to too many mediocre players in the side and Kenny is working with a team mostly with players who are not the men he would have wanted except for Suarez and Carroll.
Now I hope the reason behind the inconsistency can be explained from a football logic perspective only. And I hope it is not due to some other SINISTER reason. What sinister reason? In one part of the world, many people are convinced that many of these games are rigged due to the cancer of gambling and owners' greediness etc. Sometimes a strong team playing a weaker team and the strong team is expected to win handsomely and the whole world would bet on them to win, the unexpected result of a draw/defeat would result. The bookies would earn their millions from the gamblers because the bookies fixed the match.
Sometimes the owners could be involved esp. when they've just spent millions in buying a PL club and they want to recoup some of their millions back. So when their side play a weaker team and most gamblers would bet on his team to win, he would used proxies to bet on his side to lose/draw. This is too easy for him as he would get his manager to get his team to avoid victory. This way he could win millions in one game.
So certain games (not all) are fixed by owners and/or bookies to make money out of naive gamblers but the eventual champions would still be the best team as they would not fix a mediocre team to win the EPL.
I'll probably get a lot of ridicule and scolding from you lot and I find it hard to believe either, but sometimes when results just don't make sense, I do begin to have my suspicions that it could be true though I hope it's not.