Hawick Royal Albert 0 – 7 HuntlyNot a result to raise too many eyebrows. Not, in fact, a scoreline I would ever have imagine myself writing.Yet this Active Nation Scottish Cup first round tie is suddenly in the middle of a match fixing storm after it emerged a number of bookmakers had expressed concerns to the police about some of the betting patterns on the game. Click to continue reading...

Just last week, UEFA announced 40 further investigations into match-fixing claims, but as Jonathan Wilson points out in the Guardian, this has elicited little interest in the British press. Wilson notes that even though most of the concerns are related to Eastern Europe, "fixers" have been moving westward for some time with German referee Robert Hoyzer jailed for his role in match-fixing a full four years ago.

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