The chairman of the European Club Association (ECA), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, threatens a ‘revolution’ if corruption-problems in FIFA are not addressed and if clubs and other football stakeholders do not get more influence in the decision-making process.

The fight against corruption, match fixing and abuse of power in international sport is increasingly on the international political agenda and top politicians will continue the debate at Play the Game 2011.

A written declaration signed by 400 members of the European Parliament urges the European Commission to take the lead in the fight against corruption in sport.

Match fixing and organisational corruption are intertwined and sports organisations do not have sufficient tools to investigate, says Allan Hansen

"If you think that a ball game is merely a game about a ball, you may have got it wrong. Sport as a whole is an intense, never-ending battlefield about the values that guide our lives," Jens Sejer Andersen, International Director at Play the Game states in this article. In the article he also looks into whether the ethical standards for sport are higher than for other cultural phenomena.

It may seem unfair that sport more than any other cultural phenomenon must constantly explain its human and social values. There are however some very good reasons to demand a little more from sport than from other activities.

Speaking at an international doping conference in London, WADA Director General, David Howman, repeated his warnings against criminals infecting the world of sport and called for new unorthodox ideas in the fight against doping.

Comment: Match-fixing has been recognized by the international sport organisations as one of the biggest threats to sport. But what can be done to fight it? In this comment piece, Jean-Loup Chappelet, Professor and Director at IDHEAD, Lausanne argues why the creation of an international agency against corruption in sport is one way to go.