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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]




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]




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]




New study claims doping is bigger threat to sport than match-fixing

16 November 2011

A new report from the British Coventry University’s International Centre for the Business of Sport (CIBS) finds that corruption in sport is dominated by doping, equating to nearly 96 per cent of all cases, and that betting and...[more]




Surveying media coverage of Play the Game: Another story about football

19 October 2011

Bringing change to the heart of sport was the slogan for the 2011 Play the Game conference. Judging from media coverage of the conference, there is little doubt that the heart of sport lies in football, and its main affliction is...[more]




Warning: “Anyone Can Fix”

03 October 2011

Match fixing is going through the same transition as popular music sales went through in the 1990s when it went online, author Declan Hill told delegates at the 2011 Play the Game conference. Asian sport is already much...[more]




Play the Game spoke in the German Parliament

30 September 2011

A few days before Play the Game starts in Cologne, Play the Game’s International Director, Jens Sejer Andersen, gave his opinion on how corruption in sport could be fought when on September 28th he was invited to speak at a...[more]




Council of Europe adopts recommendation on match-fixing

29 September 2011

The Council of Europe has adopted a recommendation to its member states against match-fixing and other sorts of manipulation of sports results.[more]




Self regulation is the key to protecting integrity in sport

27 September 2011

Europe needs stronger governance within the sports themselves so that it becomes impossible for players, presidents, officials or anyone else to affect the outcomes of sporting contests, argues Khalid Ali, Secretary General at...[more]




Anti-doping: Widening the net against a common enemy

23 September 2011

Sport is huge business and the influence of the underworld is getting greater by the year. The threat is so acute that it needs to be addressed head on, argues David Howman, Director General of WADA, in the fifth contribution to...[more]




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