STV – Almost a third of professional footballers in Scotland have admitted breaking the rules on betting for players, a new survey has revealed. The study revealed the extent and attitudes towards gambling in Scottish football and found that 32% of players admitted contravening strict gambling rules set out by our football governing bodies. The report, by the world union for professional footballers, FIFpro, also revealed that one player said they had played in a game that has since been identified as fixed. One player also admitted they had been approached in the past 12 months to fix a match…

Hong Kong Football Association chairman Brian Leung Hung-tak appealed to local authorities to relax betting rules and allow more top-quality matches into the market. This could boost the game in the country with English Premier League clubs in Hong Kong for its pre-season Asia Cup. Leung’s call for new rules is driven by the potential financial benefits of allowing local betting on games between overseas teams in the city. This in itself would be controversial as staging games for betting purposes only would open the sport, already fighting a battle against match-fixers, to more ethical questions and potential corruption. In…