Canadian soccer had another bomb dropped on it this afternoon.
Declan Hill, author of the Fix, went on Prime Time on the Fan 590 Tuesday evening to describe how an investigation has revealed that a number of new Canadian soccer matches have come under scrutiny for match-fixing.
Hill painted a bleak picture to the show's host Bob McCown, alleging several times that Canadian Soccer League games were fixed this summer. He elaborated about them on his blog.
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"There is a roster of dodgy, suspicious, in my opinion and some experts internationally, fixing in Canadian soccer in the last few weeks, here in Southwestern Ontario," Hill told the Fan 590.
"(My sources were saying) Canadian Soccer League games (were) being fixed in June, July and beginning of August," Hill said. "...The reputation of this league, the reputation of Canadian soccer in general is rapidly going down the tube."
While Hill did not go into which games were fixed, he did state he had confirmed the fixing with Asian bookmakers, Sport Radar and other sources. He continued, stating how disappointed he was that Canadian soccer officials had refused comment on what they were doing.
"Unfortunately, I've been on the phone for the last two weeks trying to get Canadian soccer officials to take this seriously, or heck, just to comment to prevent this from happening. No dice."
This news comes less than a year after the CBC documentary, and supplementary reporting on CBC.ca and Canadian Soccer News, showed how fixing in the CSL wasn't just a one off affair but was alleged to be a pattern of targeted attacks by a criminal gang in Germany.