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Confessions of the world's most prolific match-fixer

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Kelong Kings

Confessions of the world's most prolific match-fixer

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Wilson Raj Perumal has been labeled the world's most prolific match-fixer in football's recent history. Born a village boy in rural Singapore in the mid-60's, Wilson climbed the heights of international match-fixing across five continents, becoming FIFA's most wanted man.

Like a "guppy in the sea", Wilson started off a small gambler, mixing with the local Singapore bookies, and witnessed the rise and fall of the old-school Asian "big fish" of match-fixing until he found himself competing against them in a world with no set rules, where turncoats are the norm and quick money the only drive.

Perumal was arrested in Finland in February 2011 and decided to collaborate with authorities opening football's Pandora's box. In his book, Wilson reveals an unprecedented account of how the international match-fixing underworld has influenced the outcomes of matches at every level of football that we may well have watched unsuspectingly.

Kelong Kings is the ultimate tale about gambling, soccer and match-fixing, told directly by the man who made it all happen. But be advised, after you read this book, you will never be able to watch a football match in the same way again.

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Invisible Dog
Language
English
Pages
335

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2014, Invisible Dog
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Table of Contents

Author's note
Foreword
Prologue
Chapter 1. Kampong boy
Chapter 2. A guppy in the sea
Chapter 3. Going bust
Chapter 4. A ten-year holiday
Chapter 5. A frog in the well
Chapter 6. Ah Blur
Chapter 7. The syndicate
Chapter 8. The betting house
Chapter 9. My own boss
Chapter 10. Unsettled debts
Chapter 11. Unsung hero
Chapter 12. 1-1
Chapter 13. Repeat offender
Chapter 14. Farewell to Singapore
Chapter 15. I am the savior
Chapter 16. He who ate my bread
Chapter 17. The soup got fucked
Chapter 18. The rat

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Published in
Budapest, Hungary

Contributors

Foreword
Prof. Tony Brophy

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Paperback
Number of pages
335
Dimensions
2,2 x 14 x 21 centimeters
Weight
434 grams

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OL25444533M
ISBN 13
9789630891226
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kelong-Kings-Confessions-prolific-match-fixer/dp/9630891220

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When they fixed me up in Finland, they thought it was just going to be a Wilson-Raj-send-him-back-to-Singapore story; locked up and out of the picture for five long years. They never realized that match-fixing was going to be uncovered; it never occurred to them that the police would check my mobile phone, my laptop and go through all of my belongings.
I had just landed in Vantaa airport, Helsinki, Finland, from the small arctic town of Rovaniemi, when they stopped me. Only me. So I immediately sensed that something was amiss. It wasn't really a random check; they were already after me, following my every move. Somehow they had missed me in Rovaniemi; perhaps they didn't expect me to take the first flight out at six o'clock in the morning. So when I showed up in Vantaa airport the police stopped me, checked my passport and escorted me down to the airport's Police holding bay. Then an officer came in.
"You're traveling under a false passport", he said.
The officer was holding a picture of me in his hand; a big picture. I couldn't recognize the T-shirt that I wore in the photo.
"Where the fuck did I get that T-shirt from", it looked like an old picture.
The officer examined the photo carefully, then began scrutinizing me.
"This is not the guy".
Old photo.
He checked for a cut on my forehead; I have a little scar just below my hairline, but the officer couldn't spot it.
"No, no, no", he shook his head. "This is not the guy".
But the police in Rovaniemi insisted that they hold on to me, so there I was, sitting in the Vantaa Helsinki airport's holding bay.
Someone had given the Finnish authorities all of my true details: Singaporean, Indian origin, my real name, my picture. The police had called all the hotels in town.
"When he checks in", they demanded, "please contact us immediately".
Somebody had been saving this old photo of me for this... But who?
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