澳大利亚橄榄球球员下注10澳元队友被禁赛8场

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澳大利亚足球联赛AFL的一名球员Heath Shaw下注队友第一个进球，赌注是10澳元，被发现后被禁赛8场。
今年橄榄球联赛还禁赛过Ryan Tandy


Sport-AFL player banned after bet on team mate
Fri, 15 Jul 08:32:00 2011

The Australian Football League banned a player for eight matches on Friday after he was found to have placed a A$10 bet on a team mate to kick the first goal in a match.

Australia has moved to draft federal legislation to combat gambling-related corruption in sport and has been weighing up long jail sentences for offenders.

A betting scandal involving sacked prop Ryan Tandy rocked the National Rugby League this year, with police charging the player and a prominent agent over a suspicious betting plunge surrounding a penalty kick.

The AFL, custodians of the popular indigenous football code Australian Rules, banned Collingwood defender Heath Shaw for 14 matches, with six suspended, after investigators found he had bet on his captain Nick Maxwell to kick the first goal of a match against the Adelaide Crows earlier this year.

Shaw, who was also fined A$20,000 ($21,000), had shared a A$20 cash bet with a friend and was discovered after investigators noted a betting plunge on Maxwell to kick the first goal.

Maxwell, normally a defender for title-holders Collingwood but who played as a forward against the Crows that day, was fined A$10,000 because three of his family members had laid bets totalling A$85, the AFL said.

"There's a clear message here to players, coaches and officials, that if you do breach the AFL's betting regulations, the chances are you will get caught," AFL operations manager Adrian Anderson told reporters.

Sports gambling, worth A$2.8 billion in Australia in 2008, has exploded in the country in recent years, prompting local politicians and sports officials to demand it be reined in amid fears local leagues will be devastated by corruption-related scandals.

($1 = 0.932 Australian Dollars)

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League won't ban exotic bets
July 17, 2011 12:00am

General manager football operations Adrian Anderson said the AFL had considered banning exotic bets - such as who kicks the first goal of a match - but added: "It would be a disaster. It would push betting underground".

Shaw was suspended for 14 matches, (six matches suspended) and fined $20,000 for sharing a $20 bet with a friend on defender Maxwell to kick the opening goal against the Crows in Round 9, at odds of $101.

Maxwell was sanctioned $5000, with a further $5000 suspended, for recklessly disclosing inside information to his family, which led to three account bets totalling $85 being placed on him kicking the first goal of the match.

AFL players are not allowed to bet on AFL matches, nor to provide inside information that may affect betting odds.

Despite AFL boss Andrew Demetriou telling footy fans in Cairns that gambling "is one of the great threats to our game", the league does not intend to sever ties with betting agencies.

Anderson said the AFL had detected the indiscretions only because of the mechanisms in place from deals with betting agencies.

"Setting up an integrity program to detect these breaches was an important step to check inside information - and prevent a situation of more serious forms of corruption," he said.

"If we banned exotic bets it would push betting underground and our integrity policy would be toothless."

Bookmakers also declared that having a legal agreement with the AFL (and other sports) to detect betting infringements was clearly working and that to ban exotic betting would leave the sport powerless.

Alan Eskander of Betstar said he applauded the AFL and its investigators "for taking it so seriously and for their swift and harsh punishment".

"Integrity of the game is paramount.

"There is some absolute rubbish being spoken by people who want exotic bets banned. It is just flawed logic.

"The only reason this (Magpie incident) has come out is because exotic betting has mechanisms in place to detect such transgressions. Because this betting option is legal, the AFL can access information and weed out problems.

"Without this legal set-up, exotic betting would go to the black market and that would cause a significant threat to the integrity of the sport.

"What the AFL has done should be a deterrent to all players. It also should give the public faith that anything untowards is picked up quickly, acted upon fiercely and that the integrity of the AFL and the bookmakers remains at the highest level," Eskander said.

Matt Tripp of Sportsbet said banning exotic bets "would just send punters off-shore".

"Unregulated exotic bets would flourish and sporting organisations such as the AFL would not be able to monitor bets as they can now."

He said he and other betting agencies were not concerned about exotic bets because "we, and most others, allow a punter to win a maximum of only $500 on an exotic bet".

"It wouldn't be worth professionals having a crack because even with different names and betting with different organisations, the amount to be won wouldn't be worth the effort - and that's providing their bet was successful," he said.

Tripp said he and Michael Sullivan of Sportingbet (the two biggest corporate bookmakers in Australia) visited Federal Minister for Sport Mark Arbib six weeks ago to consult on sports betting.nte