Jacob Whitehead

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Are England fun again? Will Ronaldo ever be dropped? · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

the number of yellow cards, the number of corners, and spot fixing is effectively manipulating any of that latter group.

It can be much easier for fixers to organise spot fixing than match fixing because rather than potentially having to get a whole team in on it to concede X number of goals, you only really would need one player to deliberately get a yellow card or to potentially contribute towards having a large number of corners.

And there can be pretty lucrative markets to do with this just because of the specificity of some of the potential outcomes.

Yeah, there are a few.

I mean, to start with a number of sports.

I remember I did a series about fixing earlier this month and I spoke to one expert who said it's in every sport, in every continent.

Now, the only reason that we can't find it is because we may not have the monitoring systems yet.

Now,

While we might not have found those examples in every sport, there's been dozens, especially in lots of US sports.

There's one really interesting case in football recently, which happened in the Australian A-League.

And that was to do with the team in total earning a total number of yellow cards or conceding a certain number of corners.

And when you go through, I got access to the court documents of these, and you can sort of see the mechanisms through which this really unfolds.

So there's a ringleader who was in contact with a Colombian source.

And then the ringleader, the captain, who was actually a former Chelsea trainee called Ulysses de Villa, was then recruiting other players who they gave nicknames to, like the butcher.

They're communicating via emojis.

And all three players ended up pleading guilty to the offences in that case.

The second two, I suppose, less integral members have already been sentenced and De Vere is currently awaiting sentencing now.

But it just shows, I guess, how easy it is for this kind of corruption to overtake a football club.

And just how much of a growing concern is spot fixing in sport?

Definitely a growing concern, mostly because of just this evolution of both the gambling market and the data market who have been selling that information to the bookmakers.

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