Special criminal courts set up by the South African government, at the recommendation of FIFA, to deal with crime during the World Cup are quick, efficient and poised to set an example for the currently sluggish judicial system.

The Examination of Threats to the Integrity of Sports was commissioned by the EU Sports Platform and has been launched in European Parliament. The report, elaborated by Danish research institute Oxford Research, outlines the key problems and also examines what can be done to combat the threats.

At least nine Somali teenagers have been killed by mortar fires while they were playing football game at a village stadium in the Wardhigley district in Mogadishu Wednesday, Somali Football Federation confirmed.

American newspaper, the New York Times went to Germany to take a closer look at the state of German football in the wake of the match-fixing scandal.

FIFA has been forced to call in international crime-fighters Interpol to form a task-force to combat a wave of match-fixing and bribery that is sweeping through the game.

"I told you so", Declan Hill says in a press statement on the large probe into match-fixing leading to 17 arrests and confiscation of documents, cash and valuables after 50 raids in three European countries.

The European Sports Security Association (ESSA) has issued a call for the establishment of a robust independent global sports anti-corruption body.

A report published by FATF, an international agency responsible for tracking the proceeds of crime, reveals that money laundering through the football sector is "deeper and more complex than previously understood”.