As the World Cup bandwagon gets lighter in the USA, Perumal raises his ugly mug again...

After a literal replay of Germany-Algeria in Belgium's (undeservedly close) 2-1 win over the USA, what do my wandering eyes see in the news, but Wilson Raj Perumal again!!

He's basically the other big kingpin of Southeast Asian match-fixing, the one Declan Hill spoke of when he did his "Football 4 U" exposition for the New York Times just before the tournament began.

Well, it now appears we have a match in which Der Spiegel, the German newspaper, claims (CBC report on it's website here) that, by Perumal correctly predicting the 4-0 Croatia win and that a Cameroonian player would get sent off in the first half, that Perumal has, in fact, succeeded in rigging a 2014 World Cup tournament match.

The Cameroon soccer federation has stepped in to investigate.  One of the most interesting things about it is that it is claimed Perumal claimed that there were "seven bad apples" on the Cameroon team, indicating, to most, that he had compromised about a third of the 23-man World Cup squad for the African nation.

Let's see:

• Threaten to strike?  Check.
• Bonus payment dispute?  Check.
• Wilson Raj Perumal?  Check...

HMMMMM.....