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

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

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

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

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.

Wearing a club Brugge shirt brought to you by unibet

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.

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

The Jontay Porter of football

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

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

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."

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.

"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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Love the joke about him and Man CIty Game recognizes game

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

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

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...

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.

Meanwhile man city charges still not resolved

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

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.*

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

Emperor Bumblewank is an incredible name by the way

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"

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

I'm in love with this angle 😆

7:05 this part had me dying 😂😂😂

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.

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

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

Let me hold that for you Z.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

these betting companies need to do more

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!!

Bro is beyond cooked 😭🙏

jontay porter mode

integrity and english football= like cooking eggs in motor oil

What's up with that stache tho

Zealand looking like Hello neighbour

Packehtar

City and Paqueta Match made in heaven

I like the Critikal inspiration for the title and thumbnail 😂

Might be wise to lawyer up fella

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.

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

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

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

What he sees: 🎤 What she sees:

When are we getting History with Zealand channel.

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

I thought that foul on McGinn was a red watching live

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 :).

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.

Wow that mic arm.

Brother you are looking fine with that stache

No watchable highlights we'll take the word of moustache guy.

Watch him play lol he dives at EVERYTHING he’s never gonna be able to get away with this one lol

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 ...

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

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.

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

Just bet my car, on Lucas Paqueta

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

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

how many years you think they ban him for?

The mustache 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😢😢😢

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

Jontay Porter's smiling rn Paqueta might have done a a Roy Keane if it meant getting paid.

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

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

Now i understand why the random red cards in my fm save happen

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

I genuinely don’t know if I’ve heard Z say the F word before

rare Z F-bomb, woah

Okay what's worse this or the Dejontae Porter incident in the NBA.

He got in too deep with the Peaky Blinders..

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.

10 year ban apparently, career ender sort of thing. Bigger than Ivan Toneys betting scandal.

Pretty sure he had a try at it against Freiburg.