Greed is just greed full stop. For some people they can never have enough.
Anyone remember the Guinness and Blue Circle trials years ago? Multi millionaires who had enough money to retire and never have to lift another finger, yet they could resist just that little bit more.
As someone said to me years ago, "where there's money there's always a fiddle."
Can he actually be banned though, it seems as if he hasn't actually admited to throwing a match, just agreeing in principle to do it? I suppose it would all depend on the WSA's rules. Even if they tried some smart arse lawyer would argue that they thought they were dealing with some dangerous gangsters and just said what ever they had to as they were scared, "we would never have actually gone through with it, honest guv!"
I've been a Davis fan since he won his first world title, but the first thing I said to my missus when he took the big lead against Higgins was, "is this a fix?" unfortunately.
Still it's nice to know that we have those paragons of virtue at the NOTW to protect the morals of the nation, what goes through a journalist's mind when they dream up these ideas to trap someone in a set up like this? I expect those nice and genteel journalists involved will be scarred for life being exposed to such corruption, especially as they were forced to travel all that way on expenses.