He said: 'We have never had to worry about fixing friendly matches before as we have always reached the quarter-final stage at least.

The enquiry has disclosed that he received large sums of money from the betting syndicates to fix matches.

Separately, in 2007 several players reported being approached by illegal gambling rings offering money to fix matches.

They're fixing matches in Italy again.

Fashanu offered to fix matches for Mahmood and took a cash deposit.

What this case has done is only to show the cartels that if you fix matches in England you will be caught and punished.

Do you take bribes to fix matches?

They weren't fixing matches, just bowling no balls to order.

Palazzi said that managers of the four teams employed a sophisticated system to influence referees and fix matches.

In 1997, three well-known Taiwanese baseball players confessed to having fixed matches at the behest of illegal gambling syndicates.