Match-fixing is a sport problem, not a betting problem

Khalid Ali, Secretary-General of the European Sports Security Association (ESSA), offers his views on the problem of match-fixing in sport and argues that sports federations could do more to root out corruption. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the sharp focus brought by the World Cup, match-fixing has been in the news a lot this year. Why? In Germany, police are investigating another match-fixing scandal potentially bigger than the Hoyzer affair of 2005, while across the Alps in Italy, the [...]