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SINGAPORE - Fan turnout for the 2010 Great Eastern-Yeo's S-League season was poor, and the dismal performance by the national team at the AFF Suzuki Cup last December gave rise to an atmosphere of doom and gloom among the Singapore football fraternity.
The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) duly increased funding for S-League clubs and coach Radojko Avramovic promised to draft in new young faces into the national squad, in a bid to nurse the country's number one sport back into health.
But the latest comments from FIFA's head of security, Chris Eaton, that their investigations have raised a strong possibility that Singapore houses an "academy of match-fixers", is a fresh blow for local football.
Speaking to MediaCorp yesterday, SAFFC head coach Richard Bok said: "It's a big thing because it's coming from FIFA ... We are trying to get S-League fans to come back to matches and I don't know if it will affect us.
"It's (FIFA comments) not helping, and after things like the national team's performance, it's been one blow after another."
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