Swansea City boss Michael Laudrup has had to deny favoring match-fixing after comments yesterday.

The Swansea manager, when asked for his feelings on match-fixing, condemned the problems that have ravaged Italian football.

But the Dane claimed he did not "see anything bad" in a third-party club offering a win bonus to a side playing in a separate fixture - a scenario that would go against both Football Association and Premier League rules.

But he was later forced to release a statement saying: "The point I was trying to make was that the term "match-fixing" needs to be defined because there are different levels.

"If two teams both needed a draw and the scores are level with 20 minutes to go, then I wouldn't expect either team to throw men forward looking for the winner. That to me is not match-fixing."