FIFA report: World Cup ‘friendly’ matches more susceptible to fixing

Aljazeera – The man in the dark green shirt and matching scarf, stood, statuesque, on Stevenage Road, in the upper-middle-class district of Fulham in west London. Some other fans, in Scottish kilts, stopped to take his picture. He wanted to be noticed, because he held a placard in front of his chest with words written in red ink across it: “We don’t fix matches, we WIN them.” Across the road, at Fulham’s Craven Cottage stadium, the placard bearer’s beloved Nigeria team was about to kick off against Scotland, in the first of Nigeria’s friendly preparation matches for the World Cup….

Cricket’s anti-corruption unit could be disbanded after failing to police fixing within the game

The Telegraph – Cricket’s anti-corruption unit could be disbanded and turned into the sport’s equivalent of an Interpol service after more than a decade of failing to police fixing within the game. The International Cricket Council’s Anti-Corruption Unit is to be the first victim of the radical restructuring of the world governing body with a review into its future to begin with a meeting in London this month. The review has been commissioned by the new controlling forces at the ICC – India, England and Australia – and will also include Dave Richardson, the ICC chief executive, as patience has…