The Global Lottery Monitoring System plans to mitigate illegal esports betting practices after becoming a fully fledged member of the Esports Integrity Coalition, and ESSA reports an increase in Q1, 2018 suspicious betting alerts. 

When Bayern Munich’s goalkeeper, Sven Ulreich, inexplicably rolled over the ball to allow Karim Benzema to send Real Madrid into another Champions League final, I couldn’t help wonder if someone had bribed him.

The thought was instinctual, and yet, it wasn’t that long ago, that a cock-up of Bruce Grobbelaar proportions would have been put down to a simple mistake, and not potential cooking of the books.

How things have changed.