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http://sg.sports.yahoo.com/news/two-charged-english-football-fixing-probe-183113457--spt.html Two charged in English football fixing probe wo men with Singaporean nationality suspected of fixing matches in lower-league English football were charged with conspiracy to defraud on Thursday, prosecutors said. The men, alleged to be members of a Singapore-based illegal betting syndicate, were among six people arrested this week in an investigation by the recently-formed National Crime Agency (NCA). Chann Sankaran, a 33-year-old Singapore national, and Krishna Sanjey Ganeshan, a 43-year-old with dual British and Singapore nationality, will appear before magistrates in Cannock, central England, on Friday. A seventh man has been arrested and he and the four other men were bailed on Thursday, the NCA said in a statement. Sankaran and Ganeshan have been accused of conspiring to defraud bookmakers by influencing the course of football matches and placing bets on them between November 1 and November 26 this year. The maximum sentence for this offence is 10 years’ imprisonment. The NCA added their investigation was ongoing. Earlier, the Daily Telegraph newspaper said an undercover investigation by its reporters had triggered the probe by the NCA, Britain's answer to the FBI. No teams in England's lucrative Premier League are believed to be involved in the probe. A spokesman for the Football Association, the sport's governing body in England, said: "We have worked closely with the authorities in relation to these allegations. The FA will make no further comment at this time due to ongoing investigations." The Football League, which runs the three professional divisions below the Premier League, said they had not been contacted by the police. "The threat of corruption is something that the Football League and the other football authorities treat with the utmost seriousness," said chief executive Shaun Harvey. "The integrity of our matches and our competitions is the bedrock of the domestic game." In February, Europe-wide police agency Europol said it had found evidence of match-fixing in top international football matches and it had uncovered an organised crime syndicate based in Asia that was behind the operation. The biggest case of fixing in sport in Britain in recent years involved three Pakistan cricketers and a British agent who were jailed in 2011 for spot-fixing during a Test match against hosts England. The men were involved in pre-arranging no-balls for shadowy South Asian betting rings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Y1zmLqfx0

Heard this guy drives a Jaguar in UK lol its ridiculous in football S'pore Kelong King fakes entire teams, makes up to $700,000 on each bet THE seemingly insignificant international football match played in Bahrain on Sept 7 became an international sensation - for the wrong reasons. The Togo team that lost the friendly match 0-3 to Bahrain was exposed as being made up of imposters. And the result appeared to have been fixed. How could this happen? Who would be bold enough to pull this off? The answer: Singapore's kelong king Wilson Raj Perumal. Perhaps the more important question is: How did he do it? For the first time, two people who know Wilson Raj's connections have stepped forward to reveal intimate details of how he ran his illegal match-fixing business. Wilson Raj has been named by sources and newspapers to be central to a web of deceit involving African teams and match fixing on an international scale involving millions of dollars. The Togo con-job would have gone unnoticed if not for the Togolese Football Federation getting wind of the fraudsters through an official who was at the match. Wilson Raj and men linked to him are now being investigated by the Bahrain Football Association (BFA) for arranging the "fake" Togo team to play Bahrain, BFA vice-president Sheik Ali Khalifa told The New Paper. A measure of how bold - or desperate - Wilson Raj is can be seen in his involvement despite being on the run from the Singapore authorities since July 13. He failed to appear for his appeal hearing against the sentence of five years' corrective training for injuring an auxiliary police officer. Most would expect the die-hard football crook to lie low after earlier convictions for match-fixing here in 1995and 1999. Surely, he would not risk repeating the same offences that got him jailed. Instead, he had gone from small-time local match-fixer to global match hustler, said two sources who know Wilson Raj. source http://www.asiaone.com/News/The%2BNew%2BPa...925-239092.html

As we all know it, World Cup has always been a kelong business. But this is the first time I saw such kelong blatantness....just watch the France-Ireland qualification match last night. It was such a blatant handball from Henry, that he even tell the referee about it but the ref says it's a goal. "It was a handball, but I'm not the ref. I told (the referee) but he said to me the same: 'You are not the ref.'" I feel the pain for all the Irish fans. Henry didn't cheat.....the officials did. Yesterday, although France qualified, none of their players walked into dressing room with their heads held high. The Irish players may have lost, but they can walk proud.

The wekend's results are bizarre..... Fulham vs ManUtd 2-0 Tottenham Hotspur vs Chelsea 1-0 Liverpool vs Aston Villa 5-0 If ManUtd had won, then it would be forgone consclusion of who will be champion at the end of the season, but this had to happened... and now three players with red cards... Beginning to feel like EPL is fixed to have an exciting ending........ f

Recently reported in the newspaper some big boss got organ transplant from a criminal sentence to death. So coincidence big boss 1st in q? Something fishy going on?