'Action needed' on match-fIxing

[Shola Sholaz]

The acting head of the Asian Football Confederation, Zhang Jilong, told a meeting in Malaysia about match-fixing that it had become "a pandemic" which no organisation could fight alone.
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Fifa's security chief Ralf Mutschke said corruption should be addressed "on a political level".
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The two-day conference in Kuala Lumpur was organised by Interpol and Fifa.
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Some 200 representatives from 43 countries are attending the event, which aims to alert officials and law enforcement officers on how best to fight match- fixing.
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In his opening remarks, Mr Zhang, who is from China, said it was time to "admit that match-fixing is a real danger to football's ethical values and needs to be eliminated to preserve the sanctity of the sport".
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He said the problem was "too complicated and widespread for one organisation to fight it alone".
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He acknowledged that Asia has become a centre of match-fixing, but said that "no continent is now left untouched by this disease. Match-fixing is now a pandemic in the world [of] football."