UK newspaper The Telegraph has obtained information about the details in Qatar’s World Cup 2022 bid, revealing some of the moves that may have helped Qatar in winning the prestigious Cup ahead of England, Australia and the US.

UEFA has strengthened the new rules of economic fairness and threatens economically irresponsible clubs with sanctions. At the same time a new UEFA report documents record losses in Europe's top clubs.

German law-expert Guenter Hirsch has resigned from his seat in the FIFA Ethics Committee citing FIFA's lack of efforts in wanting to deal with internal corruption allegations.

Watch the BBC Panorama documentary "FIFA's Dirty Secrets" that spurred so much controversy before the 2018/2022 World Cup host election on 2 December 2010.

Watch the BBC Panorama documentary "FIFA's Dirty Secrets" that caused so much controversy before the 2018/2022 World Cup host election on 2 December 2010.

The World Cup host election last month was surrounded by harsh allegations and revelations of bribery and corruption within the International Football Federation and President Sepp Blatter now personally vows to take care of any corruption in the organisation.

Play the Game 2011 will operate under the subtitle “Bringing change to the heart of sport”. The conference will, as always, act as a forum for discussion of the ‘homeless’ questions in sports and attempt to influence the international sports agenda.

From 1 January 2011 Play the Game will carry out its work in a new organisational set-up. After many years of close cooperation Play the Game and the Danish Institute for Sports Studies (Idan) have decided to merge in order to strengthen their common tasks: Knowledge production, analyses, conferences, educational initiatives and communication on a broad range of sports political issues.