Confessions of a match fixer - podcast

Kinsella87

Just listened to this podcast, pretty decent, Moses Swaibu bit of a nob though, and Troy Deeney tbh. 

There’s a bit in it though where they talk about flood lights going off, and it being due to Malaysian betting syndicates. Remember being at the Liverpool game when it happened at the Valley, and it being linked to them, sure a few people including Charlton security guy got arrested, anyone got anymore info? 

Fuck Palace btw…

Kinsella87

Or not sure if the lights actually went out, maybe they were meant to but didn’t happen in the end…can’t remember! 

North Lower Neil

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/1999/aug/26/newsstory.sport

North Lower Neil

Four men were jailed for a total of 12 years yesterday for a multi-million-pound betting plot to black out a premiership football match.

The floodlight-tampering scam was carried out on behalf of a Far Eastern betting syndicate in a failed attempt to get a game between Charlton Athletic and Liverpool abandoned mid-game in February.

The Malaysian leader of the team boasted of sabotaging two previous premiership games.

Chee Kew Ong, 49, was jailed for four years, and electrical expert Eng Hwa Lim, 35, another Malaysian, for four years, at Middlesex Guildhall crown court.

Roger Firth, 49, a security guard at Charlton's ground, the Valley, in south-east London, received 18 months. He was paid £20,000 to let the Malaysians into the ground, but became the key prosecution witness during a trial last week of Wai Yuen Liu, 38, who received 30 months.

Judge Fabyan Evans, referring to Lim and Ong, said: "You were partners in a highly professional, technical, criminal operation for which no doubt you were both going to be paid a substantial financial reward, regardless of whether that device was used or not."

He said Liu's role in the plot remained a "slight mystery" after he drove the two Malaysians to the ground on February 10, when they were all arrested.

He said the discovery of nearly £3,000 in cash on him was consistent with the view that he had the money to partly pay off the corrupt security guard.

He told Firth: "You couldn't resist the temptation of the £20,000 that was offered. You betrayed the trust of the club who had employed you for four years, you tried to involve another employee."

All the defendants except Liu, the British-based fixer of the team, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.

Liu, of Kensington, west London, was found guilty of the same charge by a jury at the same court last week.

They were arrested after an attempt by Firth to bribe a fellow security guard with an offer of £5,000. Police were tipped off.

The Malaysians will be deported after they have completed their jail terms.

Kinsella87

Nice one thanks