Match-fixing a real threat to every code

Independent.ie – The multiple arrests in Britain for football match-fixing in the past week, including one former Premier League player and two so-called international football “fixers” from Singapore, prompts the question as to how prepared Ireland is to face what many now regard as the number one integrity threat to sport. The arrests were made in the wake of a sting by journalists from the Daily Telegraph, to whom an international fixer of games boasted about how easy it was to approach non-league footballers and officials to rig games for money and, benefiting from this inside information, how bets could…