Tag: UK football match fixing
Police question six people in UK football fixing case
December 10, 2013
iGaming Business – Police in the UK are continuing to question six people after a professional footballer allegedly told an undercover reporter that he was involved in spot-fixing during matches. The Sun on Sunday newspaper secretly filmed former Nigeria international Sam Sodje apparently describing how he punched an opposing player in order to get a red card in exchange for £70,000 (€83,569/$114,706) during a League One match in February of this year. It then emerged this (Monday) morning that DJ Campbell, a striker who plays for second-tier Championship club Blackburn Rovers, had been arrested in relation to spot-fixing allegations. Sodje,…