Particularly weak performances in matches of SHS against NAC and BVV led to rumours that Landman had been bribed.

In the case of the game against BVV on 27 May 1956, this was deemed a fact for a long time, because the KNVB suspended him for a year and a half in 1959 after it came to light.

[4] On 16 March 1959, the list of those suspended in the BVV affair was published in the Sportkroniek, the official paper of the KNVB.

A handful of the eleven board members of BVV were suspended for "serious negligence" in relation to a payments to amateur players.

The daily newspaper De Tijd, Nieuwsblad van het Zuiden and the weekly magazines Sport and Sportwereld and the Wereldkroniek checked the publication at the KNVB and found on 16 March 1959 that bribery had not been proven in Landman's case.

[5] Wim Landman's bribe attempt was planned in 1956 in the supporters' café of BVV, called "De Kiek".