Poland’s third largest construction company and one of the Euro 2012 contractors, PBG, and two of its subsidiaries declared bankruptcy this Monday because of liquidity problems stemming from infrastructure contracts and road work done in preparation for the Euro 2012.

When London won the right to host the 2012 Olympics, Sebastian Coe, Chairman of the London Organising Committee, promised that the Olympics’ legacy would be to change the face of British sport and inspire two million Britons to become more active – a promise that was later cut down to one million. With little more than 50 days to go until the event, spending cuts and declining numbers for youth participation in sport paints a picture of a legacy goal set to fail.

Lasana Liburd reports on the CONCACAF Congress in Hungary and comments on the future for the football confederation in the wake of its many corruption scandals and the election of a new president.

A new document by 15 academics and scientific researchers looks at the problem of violence in Argentinean football.

The Ukrainian government had high hopes that co-hosting the Euro 2012 would be Ukraine’s European coming out party. For now, the tournament remains a PR disaster, highlighting mostly corruption scandals and political turmoil, writes Ukraine-based journalist Mark Rachkevych in his second of two articles on Ukraine’s Euro 2012 preparations.