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The 2013 Lebanese football match-fixing scandal involved 24 players, with two (Ramez Dayoub and Mahmoud El Ali) being banned from the sport for life. [33] [34] In December 2013, six people in Britain, including Blackburn forward DJ Campbell, were arrested for allegedly fixing football games.
In organized sports, match fixing (also known as game fixing, race fixing, throwing, rigging or more generally sports fixing) is the act of playing or officiating a contest with the intention of achieving a predetermined result, violating the rules of the game and often the law.
The issue of match fixing in association football has been described, in 2013, by Chris Eaton, the former Head of Security of FIFA (the sport's world governing body), as a "crisis", [1] while UEFA's president Michel Platini has said that if it continues, "football is dead". [2]
A Football Association investigation resulted in five players, four of whom played for Accrington Stanley and the other for Bury, being charged with betting on a Bury win. [11] Jay Harris was banned from playing for a year, David Mannix for ten months, Robert Williams and Peter Cavanagh for eight months, and Andy Mangan for five months.
The club received indications of attempted tampering for the game against Borussia Mönchengladbach II (4–3 win) and 1. FC Köln II (1–0 loss) in the 2008–09 season. [17] On 28 November 2009, Neumann admitted to Bochum prosecutor's office that he received 500€, making him the first professional to sign a confession in the match-fixing ...
The fixer accurately predicted how many goals would be scored in a football match during the following day. [1] The fixer asked The Daily Telegraph for €60,000 so that players could be paid. [1] The fixer claimed to be connected to the convicted match fixer Wilson Raj Perumal, a fellow Singaporean, describing Perumal as "the king".
Put a chip in the football if you want it resolved. It doesn’t mean anyone is fixing things for Kansas City. New England’s success amid a prolonged and personal fight with the NFL long ago ...
It was when he learned that players at one of his former clubs, Mansfield Town, had been paid by Tranmere Rovers players to lose a game that Gauld first became involved in match-fixing. [1] In late 1962, Gauld approached Sheffield Wednesday player David Layne, a former team mate at Swindon, to identify a target game.