Posts Tagged ‘betting’
Shamrock Rovers fan and MNS presenter Con Murphy provides a balanced round-up of the eL betting outrage, and gives some interesting personal context.
We’ve had a (probably brief) break from the hysteria over Gary Dempsey’s €20 bet, but Stephen Kenny finds space to air a little common sense and put things in perspective in today’s Indo.
So, St Pat’s player Gary Dempsey has issued a statement admitting that he placed a €20 bet against his team in a game he didn’t play in. Is this really the basis for the moral panic of the FAI and the media?
More juicy off-the-pitch action to eclipse coverage of the football… Keith Fahey, arguably the league’s best footballer in 2008, is predicting a mass exodus of talent in the wake of a financially disastrous season. And the Irish Daily Mail is reporting allegations of match-fixing against some players at Fahey’s club, St Pat’s.
Monaghan United have come out all guns blazing over allegations that their drubbing of Longford was a fix.


