"I personally feel English football 100% clean of cheating. I do not think that the referee is corrupt," said Wenger when asked to comment on the discovery of global match-fixing network a few days ago.
As reported earlier, Eopa police force, Europol, have uncovered match-fixing network based in Singapore and involved hundreds of games from various competitions around the world. Even game match in the Champions League and World Cup Qualifiers reportedly also successfully infiltrated.
"Sport in general in the UK, I do not think that it (match fixing) the problem. Therefore seem surprising because we believe we live in the UK and this is not a perfect world, but I do not think that cheating or match-fixing is a problem (in the UK). "
"It happened in Europe before, it's my belief, because the referee is not always fair, especially in some countries. But you'll always be careful, have confidence in yourself, (must) prove it, and it becomes difficult," continued the man who had about 16 years gush Arsenal.
Regardless of the condition of English football, Wenger did not deny that he was surprised by the magnitude of the match-fixing network and the number of games that successfully influenced. But because he also believes cheating can not be removed from football, the French manager is asking stakeholders to eradicate serious.
"It was obviously very surprised ... the number of games that have been set. I can not accept it, and I've always been a believer that there is a lot of cheating going on in this game and we are not tough enough to deal with it, also related to doping, corruption by referee and now the match-fixing, "completion as reported by Reuters.
