20-11-2013, 10:12 AM
Danny Jarman Wrote:As someone who has worked in the industry for some time I can tell you this happens alot. All over the world from Australia to England. Some teams are even owned by businessmen as satellites for their own betting interests.
The Austrian leagues have always been deemed "high risk", but it's the tip of the iceberg.
The Fenerbache and Turkish scandal showed us a peek through a crack in the wall.
Interesting Danny. For some years now I've assumed that football clubs were owned as both money laundering outlets and gambling franchises. In the UK as well as elsewhere.
Wherever huge amounts of money are involved, crookedness is present and well.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14