I was a top footballer and made millions fixing matches. These are the tricks I used to throw games, how I recruited other players and why it’s a far bigger part of football than anyone realises

Former professional footballer Moses Swaibu still remembers the moment when he met Kingpin Tan Seet ENG, who is known for being the world’s largest matching union.

To this point, he looked bright for Swaibu, a 23 -year -old defender, a 23 -year -old defender, selected by Crystal Palace’s young player of the year five years ago and overthrown for a glittering league career. Nevertheless, here, in a five -star hotel room in Mayfair, the Bromley team and the opposing side of Eastbourne were asked to lose the next day.

In August 2012, Swaibu said from this meeting, “Tan’s existence filled a room without having to raise his voice,” he says. ‘You could feel your control – the way you keep your cigarette, the way you watched. It was easy money promise. He told me they would pay 20 big if I lost the match. ‘

With this fate proposal, Swaibu claims that he has entered the world of illegal matching.

For the next 12 months, the guilty salaries in Asian betting markets to clarify millions of pounds intentionally scored games. And he paid the secret side-yürüyüyü generously. After only seven ‘fixed’, he won more than £ 1 million and lasted in a Ferrari in the center of London.

However, as dependent on the promise of wealth, he could not listen to the union’s repeated warning: ‘The greedy man does not see it properly.’

After a badly recommended meeting with another criminal group unknown by Swaibu, he was arrested in 2015 by the National Crime Agency and was sentenced to 16 months in prison. His experience behind the fingers was measured in monotonous TV repetitions and violent prisoner attacks.

But it was a visit from Taliya, the two -year -old daughter of that time, that made her life reverse her life. “All the money that comes with pairing did not feel anything when compared with seeing it should be imprisoned to see me, or he says. ‘I left and thought: “I can never feel like that again.”

At that time later, and as he became chronic in his newly published autobiography, he meets a thoughtful swaibu who meets to make sense of his remarkable life with Daily Mail. Still. Now 36, Swaibu’s life in 2023, the consulting firm Gamechanger 360’a, FIFA and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with sports organs such as other players to stop the attraction of other players.

‘When you think that how many players come to England, which is looking for an opportunity, are vulnerable, they are vulnerable. [to match-fixing]’he says. ‘We must change the culture starting from the top.’

In order to understand the story of Swaibu, it is important to start at the beginning – in his case, Croydon, in South London, a childhood in Thrall – claimed – he regularly locked him from the house and gave wild beating. (His father never responded to the public.)

Football was released. Local Youth Club Crystal Palace signed him at the age of 16 and only two years later made his first exit with his first team. At the age of 18, he continued to be the captain of League One Club Lincoln City – attracted the attention of Birmingham City and Aston Villa more effectively. Both offered for him in 2011.

Swaibu, “ I should have been a Premier League player, ” he says. Instead, he was convinced to sign a new contract in Lincoln-and proved to be a terrible sliding door memory.

Later in that year, his teammate Delroy Facey invited him to a hotel room to ‘meet someone’. Someone turned out to be a Russian Gangster who offered Swaibu $ 60,000 to throw the match against Northampton the next day.

Swaibu as a captain and center Half in Bromley was uniquely equipped to manipulate the matches

Swaibu said no – but he opened his eyes on a potentially lucrative world. A year later, Swaibu was in a different head gap. He left Lincoln and paid only £ 850 a week in the non-league club Bromley-Empire, if paid, paid cash in brown paper bags.

His partner Crystal was waiting for his daughters, and he needed more money than ever before, after he was fined by Bromley’s training manager to attend a midwife appointment. In August 2012, another former player invited him to meet Tan. Swaibu claimed that the answer was an empathic yes this time.

In Bromley, Swaibu as the captain and the center Half was uniquely equipped to help manipulate the games and was good. When the opposition strikes moved towards the target, he learned to ‘run fake’ so that he could never catch, prevent or handle them. When marking them, he was skillfully but deliberately in the wrong place, so they had places to make a shot. Later, when he had a ‘error’, which actually cost a goal, he would tell his teammates in a false anger.

For each game he corrected, gambling crime provided a special result for his bosses, tens of thousands of clarity. In total, Nine Conference League helps Southy Southy matches for Swaibu Bromley, and the personal segment quickly rose from £ 20,000 to £ 150,000 per game.

The gang communicated at WhatsApp using code names to discuss the next match. Swaibu was called ‘John Gotti’ after New York Mafioso, and increasing responsibility was given. In addition to personally correcting matches, Swaibu continued to buy several players and regulate the distribution of money.

His own money was hiding in a room behind a Chinese package in Dalston east of London and with connections to the union. When Swaibu wanted to make a retreat, he would park his car on a side street – a side street, acts as if he was ordering food on the counter and a bag full of notes was given.

With a correction number six, the pile of money in the secret room was as high as the body. He had reached a sign of £ 1 million with seven fixs. However, Swaibu was once happy at Crystal Palace, once a week, still wanted more.

His lifestyle was like something other than films. It was part of a group called ‘Ferrari Boys’ through Rotherhithe tunnel, which rented expensive sports cars and competed around London. Train travel was always first -class and five -star hotels in Mayfair became a regular social environment. After eight correction, he gave the bank £ 300,000, but he accepted the feeling of ‘like a Junkie, he missed my next correction’.

Tan Seet ENG is the king of what is known as the world’s largest matching union

In 2013, the ninth and last equipment began to be shown with cracks. His team had to lose 4-2 to Maidenhead, and he followed 3-2 with just a few minutes. To guarantee the success of the correction and its illegal payment control, Swaibu had to allow Maidenhead to score a goal.

Swaibu, who scored a goal, said he didn’t try to stop him. ‘The ball hit the network – and the correction came in.’ But his teammates disgust. He decided to stop playing too many swaibu-but join the matches on the organizational side.

He proved that he was taking back. At the end of 2013, he received a call from a communication that said he wanted to meet him to establish a scam for his supporters of the two Singapore vehicles. What none of them knew was by the researchers who established a police sting the two partners themselves.

After watching a game between Wimbledon and Dagenham, Swaibu and two intermediaries went to the Chinese dinner, where they were captured by the National Crime Agency. Swaibu was sentenced to 16 months in prison (only four services), and Facey, who tried to hire him these years ago, was sentenced to two and a half years in the same hearing in Birmingham Crown Court.

As for Tan, who was faced with charges of fixing in more than one European countries, he was arrested many times in Singapore, but he was never tried. He did not respond to Swaibu’s claims, but he refused to do wrong before.

Swaibu from his own trial, “ Everything is fun and games until you are caught, ” he said. The judge told us that we ruined the trust of football and community. My legs felt weak and my body was getting cold. I needed cleaning. ‘

He was first sent to HMP Birmingham, where he said, ‘Locked in a small, dull room and looked like crawling’. He says: ‘I just told me what’s on TV. When is ITV Game Show Chase He came, it was lunch. Saturday night was Ant and Dec’s chat show. ‘

However, when he moved to HMP onley during his prison, the prison opposed the darker side of his life. One day, he turned to another prisoner cell, broke his speech and barely gathered.

Swaibu, who left the Birmingham Magistrates’ Court, was sentenced to 16 months prison in 2015, serving only four. First sent to HMP Birmingham and then to HMP onley

Swaibu, “ I thought you were drunk at first, ” he remembers. “Then he turned and saw the blood leaking behind his head.”

The cell friend had a fight in one of the common areas. Another prisoner punched him and fell, he wounded his head.

“ I stole the prison bell, hit the locked door and cried for help. I really thought you’d die ‘said Swaibu. ‘He survived – but resulted in bruising on the brain.’

Ten years have passed since its release, and Swaibu took a way to ‘cleaned’ thanks to his work with Gamechanger 360. Recently, he addressed the 1,000 FIFA delegates in Singapore about the dangers of doing sports and visited Lausanne, the Swiss center of IOC.

The smart teams he wore to appeal to Sport’s greatest hitters are a world away from the football set he once lived in, but as Swaibu said: ‘I speak the language of the locker room. I can help this way. I can explain more about betting rules in 90 seconds.

This is just a problem he’s afraid of getting worse. Last year, former British striker Ivan Toney returned to professional football after being guilty of 232 FA betting rule and prohibited for eight months.

West Ham Midfielder Lucas Paqueta, who bets him to win the cash for the yellow cards to get yellow cards to get a two -year FA investigation after allegations. Finally, he was cleaned last week, his wife experienced the experience as ‘nightmare’.

As Swaibu says: ‘Managing a correction can only take a player and the more bets in the sport, the more players will be at the risk of joining. It gets worse on a global scale. Nobody needs to meet face -to -face in hotels anymore. All they need is a wifi connection. So I wrote my book, so people can be protected. ‘

To participate, he reflects the following for his own reasons: ‘As a child, I didn’t have a role model. When I was 12, I always lived like an adult man in survival mode. As a football player sometimes I didn’t pay me. I was vulnerable. I used it as a reason to do what I did. ‘

It may be exaggerated to say that his incredible story is a happy end, but he believes that the capture saved his life.

‘Today, my conscience is open because of the therapy and understanding’ he says. ‘I sleep very well.’