( Mustafa Bayrak’ın Amerika’nın en büyük 4. Spor medyası olan Bleacher Report için kaleme aldığı makalenin orijinal versiyonudur)
When first football games played in Britian one hundred fifty years ago, it was pure football; no refree, no bad words, no racism, no match fixing.
Years passed, game improved, audience and money increased, so competition has become sky high. This brought some big challenges and problems to the game. Regulations got stricter and stricter, due to unwanted events (like holiganism) occured in the football.
Now, a lot of problems solved for our saucy football, but there is one thing waits for solution, no doubt, it is match fixing.
We saw some big examples on this topic. One of them is Marseille, in 1993 l'affaire VA-OM happened and Marseille President Bernard Tapie found guilty of match fixing against Valenciennes to guarantee that his club can rest first-team players ready for the upcoming Champions League final. Team relegated to the second division and pushed out of other year's UEFA and FIFA organizations.
