‘Sad day for football’ as 680 games were ‘fixed’

A football match-fixing investigation has uncovered more than 680 suspicious games, including World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League matches, police said.

It also found evidence that a Singapore-based crime group is closely involved in match-fixing.

The investigation by Europol, the European Union’s joint police body, found 380 suspicious matches in Europe and another 300 questionable games outside the continent, mainly in Africa, Asia, South and Central America.