As "Securing The Game", an anti-match-fixing site for soccer put it: "The hits just keep on coming."
Two British newspapers have uncovered that, in fact, two Nigerian players had been contacted and offered significant money for "spot-fixes" in the match.
Obviously, neither player is named in the articles, this one from the Daily Mail.
A yellow card by either promised player would net that player about 41,000 British pounds -- 50,000 Euros.
A penalty would net about double that amount.
No money was claimed -- the only card of the match was a yellow to a Scottish midfielder.
Perhaps most ominously, however, is the claim that the match-fixers are going to go to Brazil to oversee the Nigerian team.
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