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Snooker Match Fixing – A history

December 17, 2008 / The_Teach / One comment

This week saw another alleged match fixing row in snooker. This time between two Glaswegians, Stephen Maguire and Jamie Burnett.

I am not the person to decide whether this latest case has any truth and the decision of course will be left to World Snooker, should they decide to investigate.

To fill you in if you haven’t heard the story here goes, major bookmakers cancelled betting on the correct scoreline of 9-3 in favour of Stephen after irregular betting patterns occured on that scoreline. The match itself finished 9-3 in favour of Stephen. Of course Burnett vehemently denies match fixing and has gone on record on the BBC saying the same – video here: Jamie Burnett Match Fixing Allegation.
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UK Championship Snooker Firmly Underway

December 15, 2008 / The_Teach / One comment

Through all the hullabaloo over the Mosconi Cup at the weekend I failed to mention that the UK Championship Snooker was on as well!

The second most prestigious tournament in the World Snooker calendar is being shown live on the BBC in the UK and on BBC interactive with table choice. In addition you can watch a snooker live stream also courtesy of the BBC, I believe that due to contractual issues this stream is only available to UK viewers.

Currently the live streams are:

Steve Davis v Ding Junhui

Ronnie O’Sullivan v Joe Perry

If you are outside of the UK then I am sorry that you can’t see it. However, I have posted some unofficial (I must stress unofficial) videos posted on YouTube of this years Championships. They are unofficial snooker videos but are of a reasonable quality:

Steve Davis v Ding Junhui (Part 1)

Stephen Maguire v Jamie Burnett (Part 1)

Controversy

Although no statement has been made from World Snooker yet, betting was suspended on the Stephen Maguire v Jamie Burnett match after irregular betting patterns on a 9-3 victory to Stephen. Ironically the match did finish 9-3 so more information will certainly be requested.

All of the YouTube videos above came from:

http://uk.youtube.com/user/snoookerfan92

You can find the full draw here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/7774168.stm


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