Monday plays.........

Pescara to win @-102, halftime over 1.5 @+120 - this is the time of year where IOU's are issued in Italy (or a better way of putting it, UOMe's). theres a reason for the major line movement; and in Serie A......    learned this a long time ago,  never, ever go against huge line movements in Italy,  and if you see a draw with juice? 

Another Italian FIXture....helps to explain the line move, so I'll have to roll with Pescara!

GL in Norway...hope it was just a bad line on Viking and not something fishy up there. Didn't play it.

Cheers

I always wondered though, if a game fix was real how do they put it on? Do the players know and lay down? Or do the refs throw out some outrageous calls? Never really understood how it would actually work with 11 guys on the pitch. This isn't basketball where the refs can completely steal a game.

dog, jka 

mngambler - first of all, congrats on the win. how the h*ll that stayed under I have no idea; the flow went exactly as I thought, the chances were right there for the taking, thats why theyre both getting relegated.  I dont know where you heard/saw the 'over' was based on line movement, it sure wasnt here in this thread.

Loose -   saw a good chunk of the replay but not the ending. didnt suprise me the least if thats what ya say happened. LOL.   blew the whistle early?   sheesh.  perhaps he didnt want to cancel his dinner reservation and needed to leave early.

rewinds, i hate using the word "fix", cuz it detracts from the beauty of the sport and it isnt as rampant as the media likes us to believe. and Yes it does happen tho; but in Italy there are certain aspects, which is too long to type up here that usually comes into play at seasons end every year..but rarely is it the players whom start those ideas, this comes from higher up the food chain.  getting 11 men all on the same page will blow up in ur face and end their careers in a heartbeat, hypothetically, if you want to control the outcome of a match the ref is the one person you need in on your idea. cuz they are the ones whom have complete control over the flow of the game. but again, Id prefer to steer clear of that topic. 

The authorities always catch the cheaters, just look it up, they caught them when they cheated.  Not one instance has match fixing happened and they didn't catch them.  Like Ronnie says, the times it happened before, the people were caught.

Ron, dont be naive into thinking just cuz it doesnt make the headlines, or no one gets caught means it doesnt exist. it ya understood Italy youd know what the point i was trying to make.