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Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Last week Mervyn Westfield, the Essex bowler, was jailed for spot fixing during a match against Durham. He then claimed that Pakistan player Danish Kaneria was the middle man between him and the illegal bookmaker.

A few weeks back we have footballers making racists remarks and look at the fallout from that.

And over the weekend we have boxers brawling in the press conference rather than the ring.

All incidents of different types but whatever message must this send out to kids watching sport and being influenced by sporting heroes?

The match fixing was particularly disappointing for me. I happen to know both players and to think that they could go out to bowl wearing their Essex shirts and then cheat for the sake of a few thousand pounds makes me very angry.

Greed, pure and simple.