Sporting Stains..

Match fixing and its poor cousin 'spot fixing' are not the sole preserve of cricket.

IPL and cricket have been filled in chat rooms and news bulletins since few weeks. The purpose of this blog is to tell the world that spot/match fixing is not only the part of cricket.

 Lets look into some major 'fixings' in other sports.

While critics are crucifying cricket and IPL,lets not forget the fact that cheating in sport has been in vogue since the day Manchester United and Liverpool collaborated to fix their match in April 1915.
Lets study about some cheating in other fields other than cricket :-

* When a racer was ordered to slow down.

Three time F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel is not used to finishing second. Cut to the Malaysian Grand Prix,this year.



His Red Bull team-mate Max Webber was leading the pack despite clipping rather 'slowly'.

 When Vettel tried to change the script by overtaking him,his team management instructed him to stay behind Webber. 

Vettel defied the orders and snatched a hard-fought victory. But he was publicly rebuked and had to apologise for coming first ! 

Moral : The only formula in Formula-1 is to never drive the management up the wall.

* When an ace opted for disgrace.

The professional tennis circuit has been subjected to occasional shocks of cheating by the highest ranked players. The strategy has always been to let an unsung player win by withdrawing midway under the pretext of injury.

Nikolai Davydenko,twice semifinalist at the French Open and the U.S Open and World no. 4 in 2007 , was suspected to have deployed this tactic in a match against an upstart Argentinean. 

After winning the first set 6-2,Davydenko lost the second set 3-6 and,in the third,he conveniently proclaimed a leg injury and forfeited the match.

Curiously,a $7 million were wagered on a Davydenko defeat. ATP smelt a rat, and made sure the bets were called off.

Last heard,Nikolai was trying to launch a detergent by the name 'Denko Stain Champion'.

* When footballers kicked off a scam.

Cricket is not clearly the most corrupt game. If one goes by the revelations of Europol,nearly 380 football matches were fixed in Europe in the last decade. Turkey and Germany hold the distinction for the most suspect games.

The incident that takes the cake was conjured up by a Tamilian named Anthony Santia Raj. Santia created a fake National Team claiming to represent Togo and he set up a friendly match versus Bahrain. Togo went down 3-0 to Bahrain. 

Those who bet on Bahrain's victory raked in the moolah.
Meanwhile the real Togo team,on reading a report about the match,raised an alarm. 
As a result,the fakesters were shown the red card and thus ended the saga of free kicks for the fixers.

Trust...

* Trust takes an year to build,a second to break and forever to repair.

* I don't trust words. I trust actions.

* Trust whom you love and love the ones you trust.

* The best proof of love is trust.


* Whether it is friendship or relationship,all bonds are built on trust.

* Trust is like an eraser. It gets smaller and smaller with every mistake.



* Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.

* As soon as you trust yourself,you'll know how to live.

* Trust-once you get it,its priceless. Once you lose it,you are useless.




* Pistanthrophobia is the fear of trusting someone.





* Trust is like a paper. Once it is crumbled,it can't be perfect.

* I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.