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World Cup betting likely to touch billion pounds

(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-05-30 06:40

The ability to continually place bets throughout a game increases the chance of gamblers running up bigger debts as they chase a winning result.

On a larger scale, soccer's world governing body FIFA has been forced to set up a new company to detect suspect betting patterns in response to a betting scandal that broke in Germany last year.

Referee Robert Hoyzer was found guilty of fixing matches in a two-million-euro ($2.58-million) betting fraud case which has embarrassed the World Cup hosts.

Vaughan Williams said the game was now more transparent than ever before.

"Everything you do now is monitored," he said. "They know where you bet, how much you bet. Before, when it was just in a shop it could never be controlled.

"(Cheating) was there before, you just didn't know about it."

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