At the Soccerex conference in Manchester, UK, Lawyer Andrew Trollope urged football clubs to draw up anti-bribery and corruption policies. Steve Menary reports from the conference.

The Argentinean whistleblower must leave his house for good on Monday. Play the Game launches an appeal to FIVB and international sport to accept mediation.

Comment: FIFA and the IOC have recently wasted a couple of good opportunities to discourage minor and major crooks at the start of the Olympic year.

FIFA is not alone in having its governance practices scrutinised. The International Cricket Council (ICC), the world governing body for cricket, has received an independent review on its governance calling for fundamental reforms.

FIFA’s former director of international relations, Jérôme Champagne, has joined the debate on reform of the world body by sending his personal diagnosis on the problems and potential solutions to all 208 FIFA members.

Four reporters specialising in investigating corruption in FIFA and international football have declined an invitation to co-operate with FIFA’s Independent Governance Committee. Instead they list a number of suggestions how FIFA and the Committee could fight corruption in international football.