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Wenger Says Match Fixing 'may Never Be Eradicated'


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Arsene Wenger arrives for Arsenal's Champions League game against Marseille at the Emirates Stadium in London on November 26, 2013Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said on Friday he feared match-fixing would never be eradicated completely, as English football was forced to confront the issue head-on. Two men with Singaporean nationality suspected of fixing matches in lower-league English football were remanded in custody by magistrates on Friday. The men, alleged to be members of a Singapore-based betting syndicate, were among seven people arrested this week in an investigation by the National Crime Agency (NCA). Wenger was confident the huge wages on offer to players in the Premier League were a deterrent to fixing, although he accepted there could be a problem in English football's lower divisions.




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