Tag: Australia Football Match-Fixing
Football Braces for Match-Fixing Battle
November 28, 2013
Sportal – Forget the issues around Qatar, FIFA or Financial Fair Play – according to those in power at the top of world soccer, match fixing is the biggest threat to the sport today. But it won’t be Sepp Blatter or Michel Platini who take the lead on match fixing. Instead Chris Eaton, a former policeman in Victoria is the man the criminals and the fixers have to fear. Indeed, Eaton looks as if he has stepped straight off the set of LA Confidential, and his approach to crime-fighting is unapologetically old school. “Criminality is pretty much amateurish in every…