Snooker hits a new low..

[Kev]

He is using the old "i was afraid for my life so just went along with it" excuse

Fair play to the lad i'd use that one too.

Did you hear the voice of the guy who was negotiating the deal? That was Jigsaw from Saw, I'd be scared too.

He just played along to avoid ending up in a Hostel style torture situation in an Eastern European warehouse.

He's legit, I believe him.

[skel1983]

He is using the old "i was afraid for my life so just went along with it" excuse

Fair play to the lad i'd use that one too.

Did you hear the voice of the guy who was negotiating the deal? That was Jigsaw from Saw, I'd be scared too.

He just played along to avoid ending up in a Hostel style torture situation in an Eastern European warehouse.

He's legit, I believe him.

lol

Worst excuse ever the Russian Mafia haha, daft cunt, so why were you there in the first place and how come your bent manager had three of four meetings with these people in Scotland regarding throwing frames prior to travelling to Ukraine? Am sooory if he was so scared fair enough agree to it and that be it but the way he was suggesting ways to launder the money is a fucking joke yes John looked like he wanted to be out of there asap..

I agree that video could easily be edited, but his manager is bent as they come he has all the Scottish players under his wing and the worst one was Maguire and Burnett about 18 months ago who happen to be best mates and practise partners when there was lots of money for 9-3 to Maguire and the Bookmakers contacted the Snooker Authorites about this all bets for the match were suspended, and there is an ongoing enquiry regarding this, the funny thing was Burnett has the easiest black to make it 8-4 but the fact that he over missed it by so much made even more blatant it was fixed!!! Here is the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv_W0OziQa8

Love Maguires face he has just won the match but it looks like he has just found out his wife has died or something similar lol I think he is thinking what a tosser why the fuck did he miss that by so much!

Al so News of the world are saying they are revealing more next week with the Higgins affair.

[HattonTheHammer]

He is using the old "i was afraid for my life so just went along with it" excuse

Fair play to the lad i'd use that one too.

Did you hear the voice of the guy who was negotiating the deal? That was Jigsaw from Saw, I'd be scared too.

He just played along to avoid ending up in a Hostel style torture situation in an Eastern European warehouse.

He's legit, I believe him.

lol

I think they audioed the voice mate but if they didnt i also would give higgins a friggin medal for not shitting my pants the moment he started talking

What annoys me about this is, is that john higgins didnt do this to cheat the sport and mug the fans off. He did it for his familys well being and it should be the muppets with no lives that set him up that face the ultimate penalty

[skel1983]

He is using the old "i was afraid for my life so just went along with it" excuse

Fair play to the lad i'd use that one too.

Did you hear the voice of the guy who was negotiating the deal? That was Jigsaw from Saw, I'd be scared too.

He just played along to avoid ending up in a Hostel style torture situation in an Eastern European warehouse.

He's legit, I believe him.

lol

I think they audioed the voice mate but if they didnt i also would give higgins a friggin medal for not shitting my pants the moment he started talking

What annoys me about this is, is that john higgins didnt do this to cheat the sport and mug the fans off. He did it for his familys well being and it should be the muppets with no lives that set him up that face the ultimate penalty

wtf? 5 million he made already not good enough? Jesus christ you for real? He did it in pure greed the fat cunt, do you realise the knock on effect this will have on the sport sponsorship will be pulled tv deals gone, players lives ruined and careers possibly down the swanny, not saying this will happen but Snooker is already on the way out this could put a nail in the coffin.

You say he was looking out for his family? They guy is world number one and worth 5 million quid he is a fat greedy cunt who has fucked the sport over royally. This is one instance that was caught on camera how many other matches or frames has he thrown? He should be banned for life imo

[HattonTheHammer]

Did you hear the voice of the guy who was negotiating the deal? That was Jigsaw from Saw, I'd be scared too.

He just played along to avoid ending up in a Hostel style torture situation in an Eastern European warehouse.

He's legit, I believe him.

lol

I think they audioed the voice mate but if they didnt i also would give higgins a friggin medal for not shitting my pants the moment he started talking

What annoys me about this is, is that john higgins didnt do this to cheat the sport and mug the fans off. He did it for his familys well being and it should be the muppets with no lives that set him up that face the ultimate penalty

wtf? 5 million he made already not good enough? Jesus christ you for real? He did it in pure greed the fat cunt, do you realise the knock on effect this will have on the sport sponsorship will be pulled tv deals gone, players lives ruined and careers possibly down the swanny, not saying this will happen but Snooker is already on the way out this could put a nail in the coffin.

You say he was looking out for his family? They guy is world number one and worth 5 million quid he is a fat greedy cunt who has fucked the sport over royally. This is one instance that was caught on camera how many other matches or frames has he thrown? He should be banned for life imo

It really wont mate

Higgins is hardly a character that the sport has to mantain. If this was o`sullivan id probably be in agreement.......but higgins??

no chance

[skel1983]

lol

I think they audioed the voice mate but if they didnt i also would give higgins a friggin medal for not shitting my pants the moment he started talking

What annoys me about this is, is that john higgins didnt do this to cheat the sport and mug the fans off. He did it for his familys well being and it should be the muppets with no lives that set him up that face the ultimate penalty

wtf? 5 million he made already not good enough? Jesus christ you for real? He did it in pure greed the fat cunt, do you realise the knock on effect this will have on the sport sponsorship will be pulled tv deals gone, players lives ruined and careers possibly down the swanny, not saying this will happen but Snooker is already on the way out this could put a nail in the coffin.

You say he was looking out for his family? They guy is world number one and worth 5 million quid he is a fat greedy cunt who has fucked the sport over royally. This is one instance that was caught on camera how many other matches or frames has he thrown? He should be banned for life imo

It really wont mate

Higgins is hardly a character that the sport has to mantain. If this was o`sullivan id probably be in agreement.......but higgins??

no chance

Higgins aint a character, hahahaha he is the World Number 1 hahahaha 3 time world champ, it was front news of the national paper.

This is very very serious snooker is on it's arse as it is thats why Barry hearn was brought in, Snooker could be finished if BBC pulled the plug it's gave over.

[HattonTheHammer]

wtf? 5 million he made already not good enough? Jesus christ you for real? He did it in pure greed the fat cunt, do you realise the knock on effect this will have on the sport sponsorship will be pulled tv deals gone, players lives ruined and careers possibly down the swanny, not saying this will happen but Snooker is already on the way out this could put a nail in the coffin.

You say he was looking out for his family? They guy is world number one and worth 5 million quid he is a fat greedy cunt who has fucked the sport over royally. This is one instance that was caught on camera how many other matches or frames has he thrown? He should be banned for life imo

It really wont mate

Higgins is hardly a character that the sport has to mantain. If this was o`sullivan id probably be in agreement.......but higgins??

no chance

Higgins aint a character, hahahaha he is the World Number 1 hahahaha 3 time world champ, it was front news of the national paper.

This is very very serious snooker is on it's arse as it is thats why Barry hearn was brought in, Snooker could be finished if BBC pulled the plug it's gave over.

If BBC did pull the plug it would naturally go over to sky where it would be given the kind of radical makeover that darts has benefited from

There are plenty of ways to get snooker back to the masses and one start would be to introduce a 5red tournament ala:20twenty cricket

[Fenster]

There's a big difference between Higgins saying he can throw a frame in some independent pisspot invitational tournament in Russia and throwing a game at the world championships.

Is he wrong? Yes. Has been caught out? Yes. Does he need to be punished? Yes. But there's no proof he's ever actually thrown a game.

The bookmakers are absolutely shithot on irregular betting patterns. That's the reason Burnett fucked himself missing sitters against Maguire. The bookies were already on his case before it started. They must have cleaned up with Davis beating Higgins, there were no mentions of huge losses.

[Kev]

I'm with Hammer I don't really see the big deal to be honest.

The general public only cares about snooker for one month a year, but for players it's their livelihoods all year around.

Take that guy who agreed to lose to Stephen McGuire 8-3. I doubt he makes fuck all from playing snooker, and to him it's a welcome wage top up.
I expect loads of players are doing it, far from damaging the sport it's probably how the business model works, betting syndicates investing in the players and sport in order to profit from betting, it's win win.

Apart from outrage at how this has tarnished the sport, if nobody knew what exactly is the harm? Think about it before telling me I'm nuts, I mean really who has been hurt.

It's an offence but against who? The bookies? Fuck who cares about them, they make their money fleecing people.

All of the sports like snooker, darts, greyhounds, horse racing etc are sports just synonymous with betting and that lifestyle.

There is nothing sacrosanct or virtuous about puttings balls in holes on a beize table it's just a pointless activity really and these guys are just trying to make a bit of extra money on the side. After all having to win your wage is hardly a secure career model.

John Higgins has obviously dug a hole for himself but I hope he gets away with it.

When Bruce Grobbelar and John Fashanu were exposed for corruption nobody made ridiculous pronouncements that it would kill the sport of football, of course it wouldn't.

All this has done is get more people talking about snooker, all publicity is good publicity as they say.

For me the real immorality is on the part of the News of the World who once again sets somebody up so they can profit financially from the resulting fall out.