FIFA has become an international commercial behemoth, but it has been at the expense of the reputation of world football and without regard for the forgotten stakeholders of the game – the players and fans – argues the former head of corporate and public affairs in Football Federation Australia in an article based on her presentation to the Chartered Secretaries Australia Conference in December 2011.

Stray dogs in the streets of Ukraine's major cities have caused unexpected problems for UEFA in the run up to the 2012 European Championship. Local authorities have been killing the dogs in an effort to clean the streets before June, but the methods used have led to a public outcry and pressure on UEFA sponsors like Coca-Cola who in turn has demanded that UEFA takes action on the issue.

The man who stood up and asked the homeless questions in world volleyball is soon to become homeless himself: Next week Mario Goijman will be forced to leave his house as a consequence of his fight against corruption.

In response to recent tragic incidents involving football and handball referees in Europe, Christer Ahl, former President of the International Handball Federation’s Playing Rules and Referees Commission, calls for new reforms within sports federations to attend to elite referees’ wellbeing by creating support networks to help them deal with their increasingly demanding profession.

Analysis: An internationally leading expert in anti-corruption, Swiss professor Mark Pieth, is appointed to lead FIFA’s governance committee while Transparency International backs out.

Play the Game has received a large grant from the EU to analyse administration and management in international sports organisations in cooperation with an international group of experts.

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 non-betting related match-fixing make up less than three per cent of corruption cases.

This weekend signalled a temporary halt in the growing trend to move the world's largest sports events away from Western countries when London beat Doha to host the World Athletics Championships in 2017, and the Gold Coast in Australia was preferred as host for the Commonwealth Games in 2018 over Hambantota in Sri Lanka.