Platini: Match-fixing football's biggest scourge

"If the result is known ahead of the game being played, then I might as well resign, you might as well resign and the spectators needn't go to the match," Platini told a news conference after a meeting of UEFA's executive committee.

"The executive committee is very concerned. These manipulations are linked to betting and it's a problem all around the world.

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