Sunday, October 05, 2008

Match fixing is called 'yaocho' in Japanese. Some people believe the word yaocho comes from sumo game, but it's untrue. Yaocho means Mr Cho of vegetable store, he often played go games with a sumo stablemaster. Cho lost go games on purpose in an attmpt to please a stabemaster. The stablemaster kept on buying vegetables in Mr Cho's store. That's where the etymology comes from. See nothing has to do with sumo world.

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