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Originally Posted by sharkstevie
lol their was no doubt about Lee. He is pure filth as a human being. He got let off lightly.
Please post the list of matches Higgins has thrown "clear evidence of him agreeing to fix matches" in a sting operation does not = throwing matches. I don't believe he was stupid enough to go through with any of the stuff that happened in the video because of his reputation in the game, he clearly wanted out of that situation asap imo and their really is very little suspicious activity from him ever in betting markets, whereas Lee was dumb as f*ck with the way he went about things.
And he didn't have another meeting with the set up guys or it would have been taped too! He was guilty of not reporting it is about the sum of it in my view.
He doesn't have to have actually thrown a match to be punished - just like you don't actually have to kill someone to go to jail if you plan it. As for other betting patterns, I don't know - these are only public in rare cases but the bookies see suspect patterns all the time.
This may not be clear cut but I read through the basic public facts at the time and thought h was very likely to be guilty. Not 99.9% like Lee, but still a high number. I can tell you something for 100% certain though, if I was in the position he claimed to have been in then I'd let the snooker authorities know as soon as I could. It's a no brainier, for his benefit as much as anything else but he didn't do this even though he knew that he was supposed to. Very odd.
Given he didn't report it then he was very lucky to get the benefit of the doubt as he was basically caught red handed agreeing to fix a game.