Betting has always had the potential to be both corrupt and corrupting.

The 1970s/80s and 90s are rife with stories of jockeys agreeing to rig certain races in far flung places where they would all be in on it often with the owners and friends and family.

Before the days of computerised systems to spot and report anomalies there weren’t that many checks.

Agree that betting on your own team to lose deserves fairly harsh sanction.

Funny how attitudes over time have changed though as there was a lot of player betting on the Botham’s Ashes series and that seemed to be accepted as being okay not least on the famous Headingley test.