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Middle Eastern buying spree changes European soccer landscape

13 April 2012

Alongside their successful bids for high profiled sports events, Qatar and other Gulf states are gaining an increasing influence in European football through their acquisition of European soccer clubs, broadcasting rights and...[more]




Warner and the media - Ex-FIFA Vice-President is still ‘Lord of the sound byte’

20 January 2012

Trinidad and Tobago High Court has given the former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner a deadline of February 10 to provide an account of all income, donations, gifts, grants or benefits and all expenditure arising from the Germany...[more]




New sports press survey: Newspapers focus narrowly on sports results

03 October 2011

Sports journalism focuses almost exclusively on results, tournaments and top athletes. According to new research on sports coverage in 80 newspapers from 22 countries presented at the Play the Game conference in Cologne on 3...[more]




Good Governance reporting course

15 August 2011

A course offered by TrustMedia seeks to educate journalists on how to combat corruption by teaching them tools to identify, report on, and raise awareness about corruption.[more]




Become partner of the International Sports Press Survey 2011

23 February 2011

Six years have passed since Play the Game launched the biggest survey so far on the content of the newspaper sports pages. 14 research institutions from 10 countries in three continents took part, and a total of 37 leading...[more]




England and FIFA - an unholy alliance

08 December 2010

After the World Cup defeat to Russia, the British press is in the process of examining itself – or rather – of examining FIFA. FIFA is corrupt, is the conclusion of most Englishmen after Russia stole the 2018 World Cup from...[more]




FIFA dismisses BBC corruption claims, IOC prepares investigation

30 November 2010

The controversial and much talked about BBC Panorama documentary “FIFA’s Dirty Secrets” aired yesterday evening, naming names of three FIFA officials who were exposed as bribe-takers in the world’s biggest sport corruption case –...[more]




Controversial BBC documentary on FIFA corruption airs tonight – three days before the World Cup election

29 November 2010

Thursday December 2nd is the day when FIFA’s recently amputated Executive Committee will cast their votes for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups and the nine bidding Committees and the rest of the world will find out who will win the...[more]




FIFA bans two Executive Committee members

18 November 2010

At a FIFA press conference earlier today, Claudio Sulser, Chairman of FIFA’s Ethics Committee, presented the decisions made by the Ethics Committee to ban the two FIFA executives, accused of selling their votes in the election to...[more]




How Much Has to Happen and the Sunday Times

02 November 2010

Canadian reporter Declan Hill comments on the newest FIFA corruption case and the Sunday Times investigation that brought it out in the open.[more]




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