A match-fixing bombshell has hit the NRL with reports the NSW Organised Crime Squad is investigating two first-grade matches that are alleged to have been fixed.
The Daily Telegraph reports the police are looking at two Manly losses from the 2015 season, against South Sydney in round 16 and Parramatta in round 24.
“The Organised Crime Squad is in the early stages of examining information to alleged match fixing in the NRL,” a spokeswoman told the paper.
“No further comment is appropriate at this stage.”
A week after Corey Norman, Junior Paulo and James Segeyaro were issued notices for consorting with criminals, cops are concerned underworld figures are infiltrating our game.
“I’m not saying corruption or match fixing has happened, but I’m saying the infiltration is there and that infiltration can lead to the compromise of the sports of the athlete,” detective inspector Wayne Walpole said.
The news comes five years after ex-Bulldog Ryan Tandy was convicted of trying to fix a 2010 match against the Cowboys by placing a bet on the first scoring play of the game.
