In the first of two articles on Euro 2012 co-host Ukraine, Ukraine-based journalist Mark Rachkevych presents the rocky road of Ukraine’s Euro 2012 preparations. Overspending and corruption cases have surrounded the country’s construction and infrastructure projects in preparation for the tournament.

At its Congress in Budapest taking place on 23-25 May, FIFA will demonstrate how deeply it wants to clean its dirt. A week before the crucial vote Mark Pieth remained a believer. In this interview with Ezequiel Fernández Moores from 11 May, Pieth discusses his work on FIFA’s Independent Governance Committee. The interview, which has been translated from Spanish, was first published in the newspaper La Nación Journal.

Subcultures in sport regularly come into the spotlight for tolerating abusive attitudes or sexist behaviours. Now the Philippines’ turn has come.

Many of the stadiums constructed or renovated for sport’s major events end up as a great financial burden for their public owners and local communities, who are not able to fill the stadiums after the ‘circus’ has left town. That is the tendency shown in a new report from the Danish Institute for Sports Studies (Idan) and Play the Game.