FEARS OF FIXES IN BULGARIAN FOOTBALL
1 May 2009
Regional bookies halt bets
Bulgarian bookmakers have decided to stop taking bets on
several games in the Bulgarian football championship
amid fears that they could fixed, Bulgarian-language
daily 24 Chassa and The Sofia Echo reported this
weekend.
Eurofootball stopped taking bets for the
April 25 2009 second division game between Volov Shoumen
and Svetkavitsa Targovishte football clubs, while
Sportingbet did the same with the first division game
between Lokomotiv Plovdiv and Minyor Pernik scheduled
for the same day.
The two leading bookies did
not say why they closed the books on the two games but,
according to 24 Chassa, this is usually done when games
start attracting suspiciously high bets, prompting
doubts that results could be fixed.
Speculation
about fixed results surfaced after the Lokomotiv Mezdra
vs Levski Sofia first division game on April 23 2009
which Levski won 3-1. Levski is one of the two top teams
in Bulgaria, always a contender for the title, while the
small team of Lokomotiv Mezdra made its debut in the
country’s top division this year with mixed performance.
Bookies stopped taking bets an hour before the game on
suspicions of a fixed final result. Only Bet365
continued accepting bets for a 3-1 win for Levski.
The bet for a 3-1 win for Levski went down from its
usual for such games, 12/1 to 4/1, which according to 24
Chassa showed major wagering interest in this specific
result. Indeed, Lokomotiv Mezdra surprisingly opened the
score against Levski in the fourth minute. Levski turned
the game around in the second half.
The clubs
denied all allegations of fixing.
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