FIFA Won't Probe Australian Bets

Despite earlier reports to the contrary, FIFA, the governing body of international soccer (football), now seems unlikely to pursue an examination of intra-squad betting.

Australian midfielder Tim Cahill had made a wager with his team-mates that he would score his country's first goal in World Cup history.

The notion that this was ever something to be examined is ludicrous. I can understand professional sports not wanting their players to either throw games or become indebted to bookies, but to suggest that there's anything harmful about a friendly wager between teammates is silly (unless the friendly wager is over who can cause an opponent the most bodily harm). There's something unseemly (if not downright illegal) about some teams putting a bounty or reward on who can knock an opposing player out of a game, but rewarding something positive, like scoring a goal, doesn't seem to have an immoral downside.

Or maybe the idea of the FIFA probe was fabricated by the one of the guys who lost the bet when Cahill did in fact score Australia's first ever goal against Japan...

FIFA unlikely to probe Socceroos over betting [ABC News Online]

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