Re: Bold Predictions [Men,OG]

Chris Bolus (chrisB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
with editing...
: On 20 Feb 2006 13:22:45 -0800, uy205@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Roy A.
: Fletcher) wrote:
: I don't understand your assertion on this. The Premier League has no
: play-offs, so there would be no benefit to throwing a game or conceding
: goals to affect league position. Maybe for the teams in lower leagues,
: who have promotion playoffs, but not the Premiership.

Should have been clearer. I was talking about football, not hockey.
And about the relegation nonsense that occurs at all levels of
English football.
The friendly betting that occurs among football fans in Victoria
ends at about three-quarter season. Then they start swearing
about positioning and "buddy relations", which they use to
refer to the nasty business of the top teams determining who
goes to the relegation round.

But my point remains that creative losing is present in all
sports. The nastiest example of this was the American women's
skating team where Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding were told
that they were to finish second and third so the ordinals would
determine that Kristy Yamaguchi would finish first. In the
next year, 1994 Olympics year, Tonya Harding was told that she
was not to challenge Kerrigan for first. She was instructed to
finish second to make it more difficult for the Russian skater
to gain ordinal points. Her reaction to this is history.

Regards. RAF
.

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