{"id":29230,"date":"2014-07-02T13:51:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T13:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=29230"},"modified":"2014-07-02T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T13:51:50","slug":"match-fixer-denies-predicting-cameroon-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=29230","title":{"rendered":"Match-fixer denies predicting Cameroon result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The convicted match-fixer at the centre of allegations surrounding a World Cup game between Cameroon and Croatia has denied predicting the correct result.<\/p>\n<p>German magazine Der Spiegel claimed Wilson Raj Perumal correctly forecast the outcome of the Group A game.<\/p>\n<p>Perumal, a Singapore businessman, said he had made an &#8220;an informal assessment of the behaviour of the Cameroon team&#8221; after the game.<\/p>\n<p>Der Spiegel insist his comments were made before kick-off.<\/p>\n<p>Der Spiegel told the BBC: &#8220;We firmly stand by our assertion, that Mr Perumal wrote in a Facebook chat some hours before the World Cup match Croatia v Cameroon, that the result of the match will be a 4-0-victory for Croatia and that a player of Cameroon will get a red card in the first half.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perumal, who was jailed in Finland in 2011 for fixing games, disputes the timing of the conversation and apologised to the Cameroon Football Federation for any inadvertent offence caused.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;The Facebook chat with the Der Spiegel journalist took place a few days after the match. At no time did I suggest I had any way of corroborating or substantiating what was meant to be an educated guess based on my extensive match-fixing experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon lost all their Group A games, including the 4-0 defeat by Croatia in which their midfielder Alex Song was sent off in the 40th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), who work with betting regulators, operators and monitoring agencies to look at sport integrity, revealed there was &#8220;no observable suspicious betting on this match&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A closer look at the match-fixer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wilson Raj Perumal from Singapore is a convicted match-fixer<\/li>\n<li>In a book published in April, Perumal claims he arranged for players from one team at the Beijing Olympics to ensure their side took the kick-off in two separate matches<\/li>\n<li>The book also alleges Perumal influenced qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ICSS director Chris Eaton said that since his arrest in 2011, Perumal has &#8220;gradually been giving accurate information on global match-fixing. He has also given a great deal of disinformation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But he said that the seriousness of the case meant it should receive &#8220;a swift, strong and, most importantly, an international and co-ordinated investigation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations of &#8220;fraud&#8221; by &#8220;seven bad apples&#8221; are being investigated by the ethics committee of the Cameroon Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>World governing body Fifa did not comment on whether it was looking into the issue as football&#8217;s world governing body did not want to &#8220;compromise any possible investigations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The convicted match-fixer at the centre of allegations surrounding a World Cup game between Cameroon and Croatia has denied predicting the correct result. German magazine Der Spiegel claimed Wilson Raj Perumal correctly forecast the outcome of the Group A game. 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