Le Tissier

[nevillew]

What's the difference? Whether it is conceding a throw in or conceding a goal its the same thing.
Hopefully the police will be investigating it with a view to charging him with fraud or whatever it is.

We slaughtered them 4 throw ins to nil ?

[jayohaitchenn]

Oh fuck off jonny, you utter twat.

I agree with DMR, Le Tiss is a hero.

[ghanimah]

No, because the result of the game would not be altered by hoofing it out in the first 30 seconds.

But the match is altered by hoofing it out, what if Le Tiss had not done that? It's perfectly possible that the ball would have been won in the first 30 secs of play and the other team had gone and immediately scored. (yes yes I know I'm on 'butterfly effect' territory now)

But the point is, it's still defrauding bookmakers (I appreciate they don't always get sympathy) and fans. Basically a player has admitted he'd rather line his own pocket fraudulently than play for the team.

[DV]

What's the difference? Whether it is conceding a throw in or conceding a goal its the same thing.

Its really not, is it...

[DMR]

Whilst we can all have a laugh at him fucking it up, its not actually funny is it? Its match fixing, end of.

It makes it worse that he thinks its funny, that he didn't do anything wrong and that he has made some more money out of it by selling the story to a paper.

Behave yourself

[jonny72]

Where do you draw the line then? What about a free kick, or a corner, or a booking, or a goal?

The line is pretty clear nowadays, any player placing a bet on a game they are involved in is looking at a six month ban and I'd imagine it would be a lot longer if they were found to have influenced any part of the game as well.

Just because it was Le Tissier, only a throw in and he fucked it up doesn't make any difference to me.

[Fred Elliot]

Behave yourself

It made me laugh


thats why I posted it !

[Jamiesfuturewife]

These days Le Tissier reminds me of a poor man's Phil Tufnell.

Im glad Im not the only one that thinks that!! hahahaha!

[pauld]

What's the difference? Whether it is conceding a throw in or conceding a goal its the same thing.

Conceding a goal will alter the course of the match, conceding a throw-in from kick off is very unlikely to. Conspiracy to obtain property by deception maybe, but it's not match-fixing. I'll bet a shiny new 50p nothing gets done about it though

[Spencer_White]

I hate to say it. But Johnny is right. This is match fixing.

Very shocked. Still see Le Tissier as a legend, but this is out of order.

I dont agree with a lot of these spread bets. They really are far too tempting to individual sportsmen and I think this sort of thing has been rife in football and cricket for 15 years now.

[Luci]

Im glad Im not the only one that thinks that!! hahahaha!

And me!  But Tuffers is much more ace

[Spencer_White]

If you want to know how damaging this sort of spread betting is in sport then just look at cricket.

They have been fighting it for 20 years. Disgraced Hansie Cronje couldnt fix a match. He was getting out for between 31-40 runs, after how many overs, this sort of thing. National hero to zero. Once you get bookmakers and betting syndicate's involved with players there is no end to the corruption.

Cant believe how simple some people's views on here are on this subject. 

[DMR]

I'd rather have what you deem a simple view than blow anything and everything out of proportion like your good self.

[reeves4england]

It's wrong, he shouldn't have done it, it may have altered the course of the match, but it is not the same as match fixing - where you deliberately lose or concede X amount of goals.

It was a stupid thing to do, and it's stupid to come out and admit it.

[Spencer_White]

Match fixing, in terms of fixing a result is impossible in team sports. A much more cost effective way is bribing the poorly paid refs, as Marseille were caught doing in 1993, and Juventus in 2006.