New Worst Betting Scandal Unlocked 

POV: You are a microphone stand

When you generally have $500 on a player getting a yellow card, but it randomly jumps to $25k twice and coincidentally the player gets a yellow card…that’s highly suspicious

Zealand is growing the moustache to keep the same skull to hair ratio that he had when he started the channel

Comes for the Paqueta break down. Stays for the Roman history.

I love with the boom arm in the shot it looks like we are the ones holding the mic towards Z

Ban them for life. The fact they're being paid what they're being paid and they still feel the need to "gamble" on themselves or their teams or whatever is just wrong. Make an example out of them and then blackball them from everything if it is proven true.

the ultimate plot twist is if he’s being blackmailed to throw games

About the whole "if refs take bribes once they can never referee again" thing, boy let me tell you about Felix Zwayer in Germany who got sentenced by the court for sports in Germany for taking a bribe (despite him denying that till this day) and still to this day is a Bundesliga and UEFA/Fifa referee.

Wearing a club Brugge shirt brought to you by unibet

“Turn on all 8 of my brain cells…” Damn you have 8? Lucky

What's crazy is that this kind of betting scandal has now reached Australia - Macarthur FC's Ulises Dávila, Kearyn Baccus and Clayton Lewis have all been arrested for the same reason. As an Adelaide United fan who openly opposes betting sponsorship, this kind of thing getting as far as the A-Leagues is shocking and downright infuriating. Much like the Paquetá case there are some pretty obvious examples as well - One quote from a detective superintendent was "It’s pretty clear when you know what you’re looking for... it’s extremely obvious it’s occurring."

This was announced initially last summer (killed city move) and it was Betway (west hams sponsor) who flagged it to the FA

Zealand looking like my uncle who is no longer allowed at family gatherings

just to give you a heads up, if he is found guilty of the charges levelled against him, then once the F.A. has concluded its own proceedings, it will then refer the case to police so they can begin the criminal proceedings, as one of the charges involved in this is fraud, not to mention some of the other stuff also falling under legal purview.

The Jontay Porter of football

Im from Brazil, and im 100% sure Paqueta is involved in this. Last year an investigation found out that on the 2022 Brazilian league season, 5 players had done the same thing, they were paid by a group of people who did the bets on lots of different Betting platforms. So yeah, there's a precedent.

"Players should be able to bet that their own team will win" - I disagree, a manager might be satisfied with a draw and employ defensive tactics, and then a player that's made a bet to win might play overly offensive creating defensive risks that jeopardize the draw

The problem with betting on your team to win, are the games where you don't bet on anything. The results of those matches affect the odds of the matches you do bet on. If you play professional soccer, you shouldn't bet on professional soccer. And you really shouldn't bet on any match your club is participating in.

This is the third case of a Premier League player being accused of betting within a very short space of time. When Tony got his punishment I was really hoping they’d launch a Calciopoli-style investigation, because at the end of the day, whatever the motivations or headspace, a player bet against his own team. Now we have someone accused of spot fixing, if he’s found guilty we *really* need to check if this is an epidemic in the Premier League.

Season ticket holder at West Ham: Missed a couple of things in the vid that makes it way more mental including this dropping on the new managers first day 😂 Seen him get 100 stupid yellow cards. Including a yellow that meant he missed the europa league qf. No way he is making money out oft it. Makes no sense financially. Even so. It would not be done on betway for profit. It would be some black market thing. I think it is more likely he has someone trying to get him into trouble. Maybe an enemy he has made in his hometown. Paqueta island.

I remember the day this happened. Some lad in Twitter spotted a strange odds surge on Paqueta to get a yellow when he previously had never been given a card in the Prem.

It's almost like there was a reason gambling was outlawed for so long. We had things so easy for so long that we forgot why some rules were there in the first place, we thought to ourselves "We know better now than the old farts who passed this ancient law" Well clearly, we dont.

Lucas Pocket-Ah

well spoken, man with a betting sponsor on the chest.

In Brazil right now we still have investigations about bets and players involved, this could an international branch of this scandal, but also footballers from Rio de Janeiro are known to have friends from the organized crime, and even parties with them, so he could be helping some of his "friends"

I think you guys, and Zealand missed one hilarious thing: Premier League has a new rule, which allows referees to give yellow cards for talking and arguing with them since this season. He didn't need to commit fouls, he could've simply walk to the referee and start an argument about an offside or something. Easiest yellow, and nobody will suspect a thing..... just a passionate player, who didn't hear about the rule, no biggie... drop it 4 times in 2 months and you are good to go...

Love the joke about him and Man CIty Game recognizes game

Paqueta can just move on and start his own crisps company. Paqueta Crisps

“The filing department is off today” is being added to my lexicon. Good video

It can eventually get to the criminal system too if you match fix. Professionals have insider information and that's why they're not allowed to bet.

Toney and Tonali were both having identified as betting on games they were involved in but only on that their team would win something they couldn't directly make happen

On the bright side, he's essentially got a Juve contract lined up for him if he plays again after getting banned

Betting on your team to win is just as bad as betting on your team to lose, and fans need to understand that and understand why. If you lay bets regularly that your team is going to win and then you don't make a bet one game, you have effectively told whoever you're making your bets with that you're gonna lose today. Betting on any game you're involved with, even if it's a "bet on your team" should equal lifetime banishment from your sport. Period, end of story, do not pass go, do not collect $200, gone forever.

There *is* a problem if you bet on your team to win, unless you do so in every match. The reason is that it provides information to influence the gambling market when you *don’t.*

Pete Rose got suspended indefinitely by the MLB and is barred from the HOF for betting, he only bet on his own team to win. Pete Rose was completely nuts, but he wasn't throwing games. Paqueta deserves the books being thrown at him

this could be bigger than the spot fixing scandel that happend in cricket in 2010 in a test match between England and & Pakistan

7:05 this part had me dying 😂😂😂

Meanwhile man city charges still not resolved

as a lifelong west ham fam ......... ouch

Gosh...maybe all this ludicrous damn prop-betting stuff from the bookmakers to increase their ability to make extra money has an adverse affect on Sport. Shocker!!

Packehtar

The irony of this video whilst wearing a Unibet sponsored Club Brugge shirt

Emperor Bumblewank is an incredible name by the way

Who came up with the betting proposition of Certain Player Getting Booked? Who thought they could entice someone else to put a bet on such an action? Makes no sense.

Le Tissier did this also, but he had stopped playing by then (when they found out) , and nothing happenned to him, as far as I remmeber. In fact he's still a pundit

I told my boy a month ago "for some reason Paqueta is just running around trucking people?" And I think it was the McGinn game lmao this makes sense to me now

Also big scandal in Australia in our main football league (A-League) 3 Macarthur bulls players were all involved in yellow card fixing.

What's up with that stache tho

A similar thing happened in cricket and almost certainly still occurs. It’s more lucrative due to wages being lower but those who were caught got bans between 4 and 10 years. They were caught out by a journalist approaching them with concrete evidence. I’m sure this will be harder to prove and he will fight it but a huge ban is deserved. It bring huge detriment on the game. If you’re interested look up the Pakistani Spot Fixing scandal.

The same thing happened with the NBA at a bottom of the rotation type of player was also caught betting on his own games

I'm in love with this angle 😆

has happened in the A League too, not sure if you've covered that

Dr. Reverend. Bishop. Sir. Lucas Paqueta wouldn’t even touch a fruit machine. Framed

Take a look at and do a follow up video w the recent A League scandal in Australia - criminal charges there and up to ten years prison if guilty. Absolutely ruined careers. You’re right that is just the surface of a much bigger problem. This kind of sports betting has to stop.

Nice detail to wear a kit with Unibet as a sponsor talking about something related to betting

I think the yellow card against Bournemouth is the most damning evidence, because the game was tied in the added time in a game West Ham probably felt they should've won, and he suddenly jumps to the ball with arms wide open, and I think he will get the lifetime ban

Alot of suspicious activity in all leagues. Saw a game where a player clapped at the ref until he got a yellow and continued until he was shown a red. His team was up 2-0 and there was only added time to play.

I'm pretty sure there was a massive scandal in Brazil for this exact thing. It was in the top division and involved like 6 players, I think Paqueta was mentioned in it during his time in France. Rabona TV did a video on it a while back

As a west ham fan im not sure which way itll go. On the one hand paqueta is known for being very physical and kinda dirty in his challenges, so its hard to say hes looking for yellow when he always plays that way. On the other hand, I imagine that the sort of person that would mess around with betting scandals is the sort of person who would do whatever to win - exactly like paqueta. Whichever way it goes I'll be glad to have watched his tricks and flicks for a year or so

Zealand Google the spot fixing scandal for the Pakistan cricket team touring England in 2010 it was really similar to this and they all went to prison for it. This is serious serious shit

I'm not sure if it's worse than the other cases. Here in Brazil, the media have already talked a lot about this case for hours and days. I don't trust my memory 100%, but it seems that the other cases are worse because the players did bet and profited. So the worst part of the punishment isn't about manipulation per se, but the fact that they shouldn't have bet. Paqueta did not bet. They started the investigation because a friend or family member that lives in Brazil put a big bet on him getting the card. They will have to prove that Paqueta contacted family and friends and told them he was going to get a yellow card. Proving it just through videos is difficult, only by going into his mind would it be possible to prove that he did it on purpose, otherwise it's just an assumption. If they punish him just with the video, other players will have to ask their friends to stop betting, because something suspicious could happen by coincidence and cause problems. If he is banned from the Premier League but not from football, Flamengo will have its doors open for him to return. It would be ideal for him to return together with Vinicius Jr to reprise the attacking duo, but he alone would be a reinforcement.

I like the Critikal inspiration for the title and thumbnail 😂

It's a funny coincidence that the bets were channeled through Paqueta island in Brazil

Here in my country, there's a youtuber who exposed people for arranging matches. They'd go to 3rd division players who would earn very low salaries, and offer them like 5 times their salaries for creating a penalty or sending it to the corner

these betting companies need to do more

I think it’s crazy that Football have way more strict laws/regulations than what my country have, 10 year ban from football for one bad mistake is crazy, in my country you get 10 years in prison for kidnapping someone😅

Zealand looking like Hello neighbour

hey! did you move into my old room? sorry about the ..., um, (odour? scent? miasma?) in the closet, if you are. long, terrible story of terror, shame, and drunken nausea, and an incontinent cat. the horror ..., the horror ..., oh, and the farts, oh, god! the farts ...

And let's not forget that the Brazilian League got a betting scandal where players got exposed for betting the same things (yellow cards, fouls commited, etcetera), sure, most players banned where from 2nd or 3rd divisions where some teams can't pay their wages, but Paquetá HAD to know better come on

5:18 That's not true. They ban this because players have insider information that no one else has access to, sometimes not even the odds makers but definitely not the average fans. Imagine you know that Harry Kane's dog died this week and he has missed nearly every practice and has been sad, you only know this because one of your former teammates is now on Bayern and knows Kane personally. You bet on Harry Kane to not score a goal. That's unfair to everyone else except the athletes. For this same reason, it should not be legal for NFL athletes to bet on college football here in the USA either.

One ban I didn't agree with was with Juventus midfielder Nicolo Fagioli. He never bet on his own team but he bet and was banned for 9 months

What he sees: 🎤 What she sees:

I feel like I remember a strange yellow card that ppl where making jokes about him probably betting on himself doing it lmao

Let me hold that for you Z.

Thing is though, the guy who got 10 years made a bet himself. He directly made money from it. In Paqueta's case they must first prove IF the cards are forced, secondly IF he bet on it himself(in order to give the max penalty), thirdly IF he himself gave other persons the thumbs up to bet(to get a major punishment) and lastly if he himself made money from this. As it seems there's no actual proof of Paqueta making any bets at all himself. Also no proof of him having told people to bet on these matches. So actually stating him to be effed is a bit too sensational at this stage. From a neutral standpoint this should be a minor infraction as the likes of Toney and Tonali actually themselves was betting. As I understand they have nothing on Paqueta in that department. So I am myself not judging Paqueta to anything but raising an eyebrow. And we should also then ask ourselves why there even is the possibility of betting on players receiving a card in the first place. How about revoking the licenses for betting-firms actually allowing those kind of bets? Because they look insignificant and can be altered by individuals. So many aspects in this question but the main target is malplaced af imho as this should not be bettable in any sense what so ever. The same with throw-ins, goalkicks, freekicks, cornerkicks and other stupidities that you can bet on. All the latter can be, and have probably also been, tampered with by officials. Start by limiting betting-companies' ways of influencing the game for their benefit. I do believe they're a greater threat to the sport than the players themselves. Betting's turnover is far greater than all of the Big leagues put together.

Betting has ruined sports and the problem will only get more pervasive. The point of professional sports is for players and teams to compete at the highest level. Adding gambling to the equation completely undermines that concept. It’s time for people to stop acting like sports betting is separate from the playing of the sports itself. You have players being verbally harassed online for missing parlays or over/unders. You have players purposefully altering their game to win bets. You can’t even watch a game in any sport where you don’t see some kind of betting sponsor. This isn’t harmless fun, the truth is that sports betting, just like every other type of betting, is set up for the bookies to make money, and the actual integrity of the sport itself is of no importance to them.

Pete Rose only ever bet on the Cincinnati Reds to win in MLB and he’s been effectively scrubbed from baseball history. I agree that betting for your team to win is different

I thought that foul on McGinn was a red watching live

Bro is beyond cooked 😭🙏

I feel like this is just the beginning with this story ... no way this dude would risk this for some extra money when he's making so much already. I'm thinking blackmail like a potential Boston College basketball scandal of '78/79 which was mafia influenced

Wow that mic arm.

When are we getting History with Zealand channel.

They should just ban these betting players from football, not just for few months or one year. They get banned for a year and still have their wages running knowing they will get right back in to playing football, zero consequences. Ban them from having these luxury lives or people will never learn

At least in Italy they had the guts to run an investigation and sanction a number of players (there were more in the past, just not as high profile as Tonali and Fagioli). The English just pull the wool over their eyes and do nothing at all to fight that scourge. League is rife with rigging.

City and Paqueta Match made in heaven

Great video, but I would also point out the games they pointing is after the initial the original case, and if you a West Ham watching, he does this kind of play all the time. Also on is for a yellow card for the 94 min. Putting a clip out with guilt view in it will secure the public.

I also think, there’s way more enhancing performance drugs in football, more than we dare to think.

So when a player negatively effects the game, long ban but when a club (Juventus) does it only relegation and a point reduction. Clubs should have the same sort of punishments. Leading on to Man City if they have so carelessly broken FFP rules too this is in sense match fixing in a different light, paying for better players to win you matches that under the current rules you couldn’t afford, not only should they have titles stripped they should also be banned band from the premier league for 5 years. If the EFL will take them that’s up to them but clubs should be hit as hard as players.

The mustache 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😢😢😢

If you think about it, let's say there is a player from Dominican Republic and he were to tell a friend of his parents to place a big bet on his team loosing, that would really hard to tract down, and the more gambling becomes the norm and legal in more and more places, its gonna just continue to be an issue in all sports

my dream of seeing paqueta, white and rice all in the same team

The only issue with betting on your own team to win would be that they can say you can speak to the other team to potentially not play as well so your team wins. Incredibly situational and unlikely but that'll be the reason you're not allowed to do this. Even if you bet on other teams to win in other leagues etc (That aren't playing your own team). It's the same principal I guess

I thought this was a Tonali/Toney type situation till I read up on it yesterday. Boy oh boy. No problem for me if we don't see him again. There needs to be a clear line in this sand. Gambling addictions are forgivable. This isn't.

You missed the most obvious offence. Against Bournemouth, in the 93rd minute he full on punches a goal kick. Not an accidental contact with his hand, a proper hand of god type punch.

Zealand wearing my favourite club's shirt (Club Brugge) on the weekend were Brugge only needs 1 point to be the Belgian Champions is just so beautiful :).

Very good video did miss a couple points however, the fa launched the investigation 8 months and 4 weeks ago, this means they had till the end of this week to submit the charges. Aswell as this paquetas lawyers last week were threatening to sue the fa as it blocked the move to man city so he was suing for lack of earnings, he could not do this if the fa charged. Thirdly over 6 monhs ago the Brazilian FA in relation with FIFA dropped the charges. And it is very difficult to prove, it may look obvious but since the ban is so long it means irrefutable evedence is needed. Also from watching west ham games and even the brazil vs england game paqueta consistantly plays like he has road rage its not just the 4 games shown ebery time he steps on the pitch he wants to chase the ball down and bulldose through people.

integrity and english football= like cooking eggs in motor oil

I’d imagine there would be a criminal investigation into this there was a cricket scandal similar and people were jailed

Why all the players I love? First Tonali, now Paqueta. I was really hoping to see Paqueta move onto a bigger club like City or Arsenal or even returning to us in Milan.

Might be wise to lawyer up fella