The convicted match-fixer at the centre of allegations surrounding a World Cup game between Cameroon and Croatia has denied predicting the correct result. German magazine Der Spiegel claimed Wilson Raj Perumal correctly forecast the outcome of the Group A game. Perumal, a Singapore businessman, said he had made an “an informal assessment of the behaviour of the Cameroon team” after the game. Der Spiegel insists his comments were made before kick-off. Der Spiegel told the BBC: “We firmly stand by our assertion that Mr Perumal wrote in a Facebook chat some hours before the World Cup match Croatia v Cameroon, that the result of the match will be a 4-0-victory for Croatia and that a player of Cameroon will get a red card in the first half.” Perumal, who was jailed in Finland in 2011 for fixing games, disputes the timing of the conversation and apologised to the Cameroon Football Federation for any inadvertent offence caused.
