Sport is made for betting

Spain leading Scotland 2-0 after 55mins, you'd think there was no chance of the best team in the world giving up that lead against a relative minnow like the Scots.... £166k matched at 1.01 is a lot of money sweating a result now that Scotland have scored two goals to equalise. And just as I post this, Spain have again taken the lead, but there's still plenty of time on the clock. Belgium scored twice in the closing minutes to come from behind against 10-men Austria, and looked like they pinched the game 4-3... but someone forgot to tell Austria, who scored in injury time to level it up at 4-4. That's a lot of cash at short odds down the drain. Short-odds layers are grinners once again.

Not a new story this, but one I haven't covered. Not a betting scandal as such, just where two teams thought it convenient to arrange a result to let one team go up. Full article You'd have thought this sort of stuff was confined to dodgy countries and lower leagues, but no, even the good ones in Europe has these 'relationships of convenience'...