Absolute farking gold.
First cast the beam from thine own eye.
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What do the police have to do with it? Has a crime actually been committed?
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Defamation?
If only his name was Bernie Wood
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My old man worked with computer systems his entire working life. Despite now being in his 80’s, he remains my go-to person for computer issues. In other words, he’s not your stereotypical computerphobe of that vintage.
At some point in the very early days of the internet (around 1995) I was in his office, waiting for him to finish and give me a lift home. To fill my time, he introduced me to a thing called “AltaVista”. In an hour or so I learnt more about what my favourite musical acts were up to than a whole year of buying Q, NME, Juke and Rolling Stone would’ve taught me.
In the car home I extolled the virtues of this new “Internet” thing. Dad was far less thrilled, firm in his belief that (being effectively one big, unpoliced anarchy) it would eventually end up doing far more bad than good.
He was 100% spot-on.
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1.) Not sure any one was actually named as specifically having done it. “I heard XXX player was involved” is different to “XXX player was involved.”
2.) (Happy to be corrected, IANAL,) but I though defamation was a civil matter.
There was a list of names doing the rounds which ironically did more to show that this was probably all bullshit simply because of the names on the said list.
Yeah, you could be right, I’m not sure, hence the punctuation in my reply.
As I understand it, fixing of games is a criminal act. Hence police involvement.
The Victorian Government introduced new match fixing legislation, which came into effect on 24 April 2013. The Crimes Amendment (Integrity in Sports) Act 2013 (Vic) creates a series of new offences under the Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) ( Crimes Act ) in relation to corrupting the betting outcomes of events or event contingencies (i.e. essentially something happening or not happening – see further below) on which it is lawful to place bets.
If a player is found guilty of an offence under the crimes act, their AFL player contract must be rescinded and the player de-listed. No doubt Stephenson was spared such a fate “because he is only a kid”
Spreading malicious stuff on the internet/ twitter, it must be legal. Trump has done it just about every day for the last 2 years.
As I understand it, it was alleged that certain players bet on games, not actually fixed matches.
The same social media they use to write stories that are not true? Amazing how deeply the hypocrisy runs in this industry.
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Note well, influencing an outcome that can be bet on is a crime, not just throwing a game which makes a soccer goalie so susceptible to outright match fixing. For examples in AFL, betting organisations often run bets over who kicks the first goal or who gets more than a certain number of goals. These can be combined into multis. This is what Stephenson was doing.
“…in relation to corrupting the betting outcomes of events or event contingencies (i.e. essentially something happening or not happening…”
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Reading Ed’s comments just make me so angry. “There’s defamatory comments in this ,forget about the harrassment…”. After the whole Sarah crap how can he smugly sit back and say that? That Sarah interview was the lowest part of the saga and he absolutely revelled in every minute of it. Why doesn’t our club demand a Victoria Police investigation into him? (Rhetorical question. They dont have the balls.)
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Fancy that, Eddie adopting the whole team, man what a man!
Fk off Ed
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Bloke’s a flog, but fmd no way would he have let our club cop the reaming it did if he were president. Collingwood even has positive tests for PED’s, and they are still teflon. We didn’t test positive to ■■■■, yet we are the drug cheats. Go figure.
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you’ve been a great crowd, try the veal.
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Such a ■■■■ club, would so love to sink them in a big game.
We’d be a chance to beat them if it wasnt for Clenbeutorol.
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I understand that. What I’m saying is that (from what I’ve seen on BF, though I may have missed something,) it’s only been alleged that players bet on matches, not that the players actually did anything to influence any results (which, as you point out, would be a criminal act and would probably involve police… except if you’re Stephenson.)
The purpose of the investigation Eddie references is to “determine the source of the rumours,” not actually to determine whether or not players actually did bet, much less determine whether or not the players actually fixed matches (or certain outcomes within a match,) the latter of which may warrant police involvement.
My point is that (at this stage) there doesn’t seem to be any crime committed, so no cause for police involvement, so I was wondering why they were involved.
■■■■ off and eat some more pork rinds you fat ■■■■. You didn’t care about defamation and rumours during the Asada saga.
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Me thinks the triple chinned cnt protests too much
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