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Resignations deepen rift among Turkish Islamists and country’s soccer crisis

02 February 2012

The Turkish Football Federation’s (TFF) three top managers have resigned in a move that appears to have deepened the rift between Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkey’s powerful Islamic Gulen movement as well as the...[more]




Call for Abstracts EASM 2012

31 January 2012

EASM cordially invites you and your colleagues/peers to submit a scientific or practical abstract/paper or poster to be considered for presentation at the EASM 2012 conference in Aalborg, Denmark. Young researchers are invited to...[more]




Play the Game will be partner in EASM 2012

31 January 2012

University College of Northern Denmark will host the annual conference of the European Association for Sport Management (EASM) in Aalborg, Denmark, on 18-21 September 2012 in partnership with Play the Game/Danish Institute for...[more]




Another year of violence in Argentinean football

24 January 2012

Despite a slight decrease in the number of fatalities, 2011 became a new statement of the violence in Argentinean football and nothing indicates a turn for the better. Javier Szlifman reports on the hooliganism haunting the big...[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]




Champagne intervenes in debate on FIFA reform

16 January 2012

FIFA’s former director of international relations, Jérôme Champagne, has joined the debate on reform of the world body by sending his personal diagnosis on the problems and potential solutions to all 208 FIFA members.[more]




Sport in politics and politics in sport - 2011 and 2012

13 January 2012

It is time to rank the most important sports political cases of 2011 and to offer a list of prophecies – what will be the most important cases in 2012?[more]




Journalists refuse to meet with FIFA’s Independent Governance Committee

06 January 2012

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]




FIFA's new governance committee under fire for lack of transparency and independence

21 December 2011

Even before their first meeting, the newly appointed members of FIFA's Independent Governance Committte (IGC) have received an indication of the scrutiny their work will face. Committee members are being criticised for not being...[more]




Dreadful Research and the [Private] European Gambling Industry

20 December 2011

Doping is a bigger threat to sport than match-fixing claims a recent report from Coventry University that Play the Game reported on last month. In this comment piece, match-fixing expert Declan Hill questions the conclusions as...[more]




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