Comment: FIFA and the IOC have recently wasted a couple of good opportunities to discourage minor and major crooks at the start of the Olympic year.[more]

Four reporters specialising in investigating corruption in FIFA and international football have declined an invitation to co-operate with FIFA’s Independent Governance Committee. Instead they list a number of suggestions how FIFA...[more]

For decades Julio Humberto Grondona has been ruling football in Argentina as well as being one of the most powerful men in FIFA. His harsh leadership has earned him the nick name ‘Don Julio’, but time is running out for...[more]

In a sensational session at Play the Game, FIFA’s new communications director, Walter De Gregorio, confronted Andrew Jennings during a session on corruption in FIFA and refuted the veteran investigative journalist’s claim that he...[more]

The “most extraordinary story I ever worked on” is how sports writer James Corbett described the bidding procedure for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups. Corbett followed the process closely through his involvement with World...[more]

After years of trying to engage FIFA in open debate about issues of governance in world football, organisers of the Play the Game conference were surprised to learn that FIFA's new Director of Communications and Public Affairs...[more]

UEFA revealed fresh details on the woeful state of European club football to Play the Game ahead of the introduction of the new Financial Fair Play measure that aims to curb the game’s endemic losses.[more]

The German parliament's sports committee highlights corruption in sport with a hearing in late September.[more]

”I have an announcement to make: I’m running for the presidency of FIFA in the election to be held on June 1 2011”. Sports illustrated journalist Grant Wahl has fathered the announcement, and is, on top of that, a strong advocate...[more]

In the wake of the corruption allegations that clouded the FIFA World Cup elections in December last year, Swiss politicians now want to put pressure on the sports federations currently enjoying tax exemptions and other fiscal...[more]