‘Kelong’ is a term many have heard from their friends that likes to place bets on football matches.
But is it true?
Here is the researched
By definition:
A term used in Singapore / Malaysia to indicate cheating, to achieve an objective by non appropriate means.A football game between two teams has been fixed such that Team A will win, even before the game commences. Team A has ‘kelong’ the game.
Does Kelong ever happen?
Case 1:
Yes it does, in 2013 a Singaporean man was detained for over 2 years for suspicion of being the mastermind behind a global football match-fixing syndicate.
Tan Seet Eng, also known as Dan Tan, was imprisoned in October 2013 after Italian authorities accused him of directing a global crime ring that corrupted Italian matches and other international games. He has repeatedly denied any misconduct.
Case 2:
Wilson Raj Perumal (born in Singapore) is a convicted match-fixer.
Perumal has been charged in various match-fixing incidents, including Asiagate in 2007-2009 and the Finnish match-fixing affair in 2008-2011. In 1995, he was sentenced to prison in Singapore for match-fixing. Â Perumal came to England in the same year on behalf of a Singaporean match-fixing leader to manipulate two FA Cup matches.
Do you think football matches are real?
Think twice before placing any bets as such cases exist, these are just criminals from Singapore (One of the safest and lowest crime rate city in the world.)
who’s to say it does not happen anywhere else?