He was not allowed to give testimony in the Volleygate case in Lausanne. But now a Swedish former secretary in the FIVB Finance Committee tells the Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, how he feels hoodwinked by the FIVB president, Ruben Acosta.

This month the Independent Review of European Football will open with public hearings. A key issue will be who should own clubs: fans or business men.

The need for better governance in the sports community will once again come to the forewhen a new sports conference initiative, Campus 2006, takes place in London on 29-30 March.

According to FIFA, print media can superimpose headlines on photographs from the football World Cup and blog directly from football matches even if pictures can not be published on the Internet until after the final whistle.

During the Olympic Winter Games in Turin, the IOC got a taste of the political dilemmas the organisation mayface in the run-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 as a Buddhist monk and two young Tibetans went on hunger strike in Turin demanding that the IOC should live up to its own promise of monitoring the human rights situation in China in the run-up to Beijing 2008.

Troubles continue to build in Trinidad and Tobago for FIFA vice president Jack Warner. A government minister and the Trinidad Expres are now asking FIFA what it knows about a strange deal Jack Warner put together in order to fund four stadiums built for the 2001 World Youth Championships staged in the small island state.

When the court case against FIVB president Ruben Acosta and two other FIVB officials opens in Lausanne on 8 March, the only witnesses allowed are those of the defendants. Judge Michel Carrard has turned down all witnesses sugggested by Mario Goijman, the former president of the former Argentine Volleyball Federation who brought the matter to trial.

The independent review of European football being carried out by former Portuguese sports minister José Luis Arnaut on behalf of EU looks set to increase tensions between governing body UEFA and the continent's major clubs because it will look into how fans can take over more clubs.