Sure, but I would argue that the current sports books are qualitatively different and make it significantly easier to get away with cheating. In the UK in the 1

Sure, but I would argue that the current sports books are qualitatively different and make it significantly easier to get away with cheating. In the UK in the 1960s, punters could mainly only bet on whether a team would win or beat the spread. There were some match fixing scandals but it was relatively easier to detect inauthentic results or suspicious betting patterns. Now it's possible to bet on a zillion different things constantly throughout each game, like whether a football team will get a first down on the next play. If a player was paid off to gain only 9 yards instead of 10 that's much harder to a detect.