Declan Hill

Declan Hill is the Canadian journalist at the centre of a 2008 controversy involving match-fixing in the 2006 World Cup and the German Bundesliga.^[1] His 2008 book The Fix as well as an interview he did with German magazine Der Spiegel^[2], suggest possible match-fixing at the highest levels of professional soccer. Specializing in sports corruption, he has a Doctorate in Sociology from the University of Oxford for his work studying match-fixing in soccer, is a consultant to the Anti Corruption Training and Consulting Group (ACTC), was a reviewer on the 2007 Global Integrity Report, and has probed the impact of the Russian mafia on professional hockey.^[3] He won the 2007 Canadian Association of Journalists Award for best investigative radio documentary^[4] and is an Amnesty International Canada 2003 Media Award Winner^[5].

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[1] ttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/sports/soccer/31soccer.html

[2] ttp://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,575586,00.html

[3] ttp://playthegame.org/Knowledge%20Bank/Articles/The%20Russian%20Mafia%20and%20hockey.aspx

[4] ttp://www.ac-tc.net/2007/10/17/declan-hill-winner-of-the-2007-canadian-association-of-journalists-award/

[5] ttp://www.amnesty.ca/canada/news/view.php?load=arcview&article=927&c=Canada-News

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