Top Britain sports officials meet with government ministers to discuss match-fixing

FILE- Blackpool's D.J. Campbell, celebrates his goal against Newcastle United during their English Premier League soccer match at St James' Park, Newcastle, England, in this file photo dated Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. Campbell now plays for Blackburn Monday Dec. 9, 2013, in the second-tier League Championship, one step below the Premier League. It is announced Monday Dec. 9, 2013, that Campbell who now plays for Blackburn is one of six people arrested by police in English football's latest match-fixing investigation, following an investigation by a national newspaper. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell, FILE) (The Associated Press)

LONDON – Top officials from some of Britain's leading sports have met with government ministers to discuss the growing problem of match-fixing.

Representatives of soccer, cricket, tennis and rugby were invited to attend a hastily convened meeting on Tuesday, which was set up in the wake of two fixing investigations that have struck English soccer over the last two weeks.

Alex Horne, the general secretary of the English Football Association, says "we all want to do all we can to protect the integrity of that sport."

Horne says "the general consensus around the room was this isn't a big issue," but adds "we don't want to be complacent."

The two ongoing police investigations center on separate allegations of fixing in the divisions below the Premier League.