Football authorities must do more to clamp down on match-fixing, a group of online gambling firms have said.<br /><br /> In a report to the European Parliament, Federbet said more 50 matches were fixed in Europe over the past 12 months.<br /><br /> Without releasing detailed evidence of how they uncovered the information, the group said matches had been fixed in the following countries: Italy; Belgium; Greece; Portugal; Cyprus; Ukraine; Sweden; Slovenia; Hungry; Romania, and Croatia<br /><br /> “The tendency is very bad. it’s almost dramatic, because the attempt of match fixing is growing up every weekend and the numbers are really, really impressive in a negative way,” said Federbet secretary-general Francesco Barranca.<br /><br /> Belgian MEP Marc Tarabella said players found guilty of involvement in match-fixing should receive Europe-wide, or even global, bans. <br /><br /> “Harmonization of law, to consider that it is criminal to fix a match and to have a law for all of Europe and maybe outside of Europe and if a player is condemn
