Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Snooker has been plagued by allegations of corruption virtually since its inauguration as a professional sport. BBC commentator and retired professional player, Willie Thorne, concedes that match-fixing has always been a part of snooker, even acknowledging that some of the results in his own matches were bent. The earliest known case of corruption in the game involves Joe Davis, pioneer of the professional game and winner of the first fifteen world championships, who is believed to have \"carried\" weaker opponents in multi-session matches to maximise the gate revenue. Match-fixing is notoriously difficult to prove, and the only players ever to be successfully prosecuted by the governing body for it are Stephen Lee and amateur, John Sutton. However, three other players including Quinten Hann, John Higgins and Joe Jogia have all served bans on match-fixing related charges."@en }
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- List_of_snooker_players_investigated_for_match-fixing abstract "Snooker has been plagued by allegations of corruption virtually since its inauguration as a professional sport. BBC commentator and retired professional player, Willie Thorne, concedes that match-fixing has always been a part of snooker, even acknowledging that some of the results in his own matches were bent. The earliest known case of corruption in the game involves Joe Davis, pioneer of the professional game and winner of the first fifteen world championships, who is believed to have \"carried\" weaker opponents in multi-session matches to maximise the gate revenue. Match-fixing is notoriously difficult to prove, and the only players ever to be successfully prosecuted by the governing body for it are Stephen Lee and amateur, John Sutton. However, three other players including Quinten Hann, John Higgins and Joe Jogia have all served bans on match-fixing related charges.".