Sports are getting fixed more and more lately so fans can benefit from their wagers. To help curb the epidemic the FIFA, the international body governing soccer has taken online casinos and bookmakers as their partners to help prevent future scandals.

The Early Warning System is an organization that was created to monitor soccer matched around the world to help prevent gambling fixes. Early Warning System takes betting patterns and observations from over 200 online gambling and bookmaker sites.

Along with police reports, rumors from officials and player and uses this information to track and stop attempts to illegally fix a soccer game for wagering purposes. But Online betting also has live action play, such as a bet on who will score the next goal or make the next basket. In response tho this a FIFA spokesman said, "We realized we had to be as sophisticated as the other side".



- 2008-02-21