Match Fixer

Match Fixer takes place inside the murky underbelly of football. The so-called squeaky clean city-state of Singapore plays host to betting syndicates which have for decades fed off the insatiable illegal gambling habits of the local population and in the process made a select few bookies very rich and far too powerful.

Neil Humpreys, a former football correspondent for the national Singapore press, lifts the lid off a previously unexplored - but very real - subject. In his debut novel, corruption is destroying the Beautiful Game and has spread its tentacles into Europe via spread betting cartels that have already knocked out floodlights and caused chaos in the English Premier League and others.