NEWSLETTER 23 DECEMBER 2005

1) Play the Game publishes contested letter from ex-FIVB Secretary General

2) Zen-Ruffinen applauds new rules to protect football referees

3) Play the Game participants deem conference a success

1) Play the Game publishes contested letter from ex-FIVB Secretary General

Play the Game can now publish the 22 pages long attack by Jean-Pierre Seppey on his former employers at the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB). The contents of Seppey's letter are fiercely contested by the FIVB who calls the information totally false in a legal sense and the facts totally distorted.

2) Zen-Ruffinen applauds new rules to protect football referees

According to Michel Zen-Ruffinen, attempts to apply pressure on football referees are so rife that it has been necessary for football organisations to appoint neutral inspectors to travel with referees. Zen-Ruffinen held the closing speech at Play the Game 2005 on roadmaps for better governance in sport and provided examples from the trenches of corruption in football.

3) Play the Game participants deem conference a success

Play the Game 2005 was a success. At least that is the almost unanimous verdict from the 137 respondents who took part in the net-based evaluation survey which was sent to all conference participants shortly after the conference. And an overwhelming majority wants to come again for the next conference which is planned for 2007.

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