Australia's Biggest Match Fixing Scam - Sports Bizarre
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Yes, welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Before we get into another episode, Titus O'Reilly here. I just want to remind you, if you want, you can become a Bizarre Plus member. Not only do you get access to over 100 episodes in our back catalogue that are only exclusive to members, we have new episodes coming up all the time. Once a week, we have a bonus ep. If you're interested in becoming a member, just simply click the link in the show notes and you can sign up today. It's Sports Bizarre. We're going to go full weird and bizarre in a way you will not see coming. The gloves are off.
The hunt
for the weirdest.
Hang on a second. This is so bonkers. You can't be doing that. Strangers. This is nuts. Yeah, this is borderline psychotic. It's only going to just increase on the show. Most unbelievable. This guy's the greatest villain of all time. There's a lot going
on. Can't keep up. Stories to ever occur. I'm
learning a lot today. Hold on to your hands because we're just getting
started. In the world of sport.
That's the worst script I've ever heard. Well, it's not over. Oh, hello. I've gone too early.
Sports Bizarre. Tells a member of the media to suck it and keep on sucking it. Rupert joined a local circus and was learning the art of swallowing live snakes. Threw the ball down, mounted his horse and rode away and never played again.
It's time for the leaders of the hunt. Get the whiteboard out or I refuse to go any further. It's Titus O'Reilly and Mick Molloy. Hello everybody and welcome to the latest episode of Sports Bazaar with me, importantly, Mick Molloy. And Titus has put pen to paper this week and come up with a sports bizarre. This one is a funny, weird one. A one-off or a sale of a series? It's a one-off.
I like your
one-offs. The series are great, but every so often you just need a short, sharp. You need a palate cleanser.
Although we did the Infantino series. The minute we wrap that up. That just keeps coming. So I think we'll do a bonus set for our Bizarre Plus members, updating on the last couple of weeks on Infantino in the next week or so because that's gone bonkers. Well, you want to get behind the curtain. Yeah, so become a Bizarre Plus member if you want to do that because FIFA just keep adding. They always will. They'll end up a 50-part series by the time you and I finish up.
The Argentinians are in full support of him though. Yeah, they
are. It's just not a
surprise.
So we do FIFA, we do these, and we do international sport, we do historical sport. We cover it all. This one we're drilling into soccer once again, but soccer in a way you would not expect because where we are going is we are going and doing a story about a soccer club based in Dingley.
Well, there's a Dingley in Melbourne, but I'm guessing it's not that Dingley. It is that Dingley. Good Lord. I never thought I'd say this, but are we just about done, are we? Yeah. Are we running out of bizarre sports stories?
We are very much not. Dingley.
Dingley.
Home of the Dingley Powerhouse. It's an outer suburb of Melbourne. It's not sexy. It's not a sexy suburb. It's called Dingley. It's Dingley, which is not known for sport in any major way. It's not. Well, it's now home of the Hawthorne Football Club. Hawthorne Football Club. Their training centre. But there's no big stadium there or big team base there.
It's a flyover suburb.
We're also going to the VPL. If
we've got any Dingley
listeners. No, I love Dingley. I'm just explaining. Even people in Dingley. You're having a go. I'm a huge fan. We're also going to the VPL. Now, you might say, what the hell is the VPL? It's the Victorian Premier League. It's been renamed to the National Premier League of Victoria. But it's a semi-professional soccer league.
Oh, wow.
So we're in Dingley in a semi-professional soccer league. Who
else is in the league? Give me some names.
Oh, Green Gully. We've got to get into a bunch of them coming up. All right. Are players paid? It's only semi-professional. So some are, some aren't. So it's not high level. The thing you've got to remember about this is in Melbourne, and you know this, but for anyone listening who's not from Melbourne or not from Australia, in Melbourne, Australian rules football is king.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:48
2
What is the Southern Stars FC and why did it attract Asian attention in 2013?
6:48–19:12
3
How did Zia Yunan’s free‑coach offer spark the match‑fixing scheme?
19:12–24:56
4
What role did the Malaysian/Asian betting market play in the scam?
24:56–30:09
5
How did SportsRadar detect irregular betting patterns on Southern Stars games?
30:09–30:11