adminFormer Southampton captain Claus Lundekvam has blown the lid on systematic fraud by top-flight players.
The stars made thousands of pounds by spot-fixing — just like the three jailed Pakistan cricketers.
Lundekvam (39) insists other Premier League skippers colluded with the betting scam. In a series of startling interviews in his native Norway, Lundekvam claimed that he and fellow Saints aces raked in thousands betting on their own games — for a spell, doing it “almost every week”. He alleged they used club staff to put big stakes on incidents like the first throw-in or corner, that they conspired with captains from opposing teams to ensure the bets came off and that the problem was rife in a
Premier League where players lived in a “bubble”.
Lundekvam, who played for Saints from 1996 to 2008 and won 40 Norway caps, said: “It’s not something I’m proud of.
“For a while we did this almost every week. We made a fair bit of money. We could make deals with the opposing captain about, for example, betting on the first throw, the first corner, who started with the ball, a yellow card or a penalty. Those were the sorts of thing we had influence over.”
But Lundekvam insisted he and his teammates had never doctored the result of a game. — The Sun.
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