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The advent of social media, few restrictions on direct access, a rise in live streaming and poor wages make football susceptible to fixing even as cricket becomes harder to fix.
“Blatant”. “Blatantly”. The adjective peppered a 50-minute Zoom chat with Minerva Punjab FC team owner and sports activist Ranjit Bajaj, and in a 35-minute conversation with Dempo FC’s CEO Pradhyum Reddy, he used the adjective three times in the span of a 63-second response to a question.
Bajaj was referring to two videos he posted to social media on 19 February, and a resulting thread that cites chapter and verse, and takes names, to yet again twin “fixing” with “football” in one sentence.
The inciting incidents occurred during a Delhi Football League fixture pitting Ahbab FC against Rangers FC. Ahbab, …

A five-set epic on the clay of Court Philippe-Chatrier cements Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner as heirs to the Big Three’s throne.
He sculpted modern Indian cricket—its aggression, its pace, its unrelenting will—yet found his own career concluded with the impersonal cold exit that leaves behind a bad taste.
Heavy investment in franchises was the first step; the next is franchise owners demanding more playing windows at the expense of bilateral cricket