Football is unsafe in the FIFA senior vice-president’s country. Violence seems unstoppable in Argentina’s most popular sport and the latest fight took a victim outside a stadium, when a local supporter killed a visiting fan, smashing a stone into his head. So, the solution for Argentina’s football madness is… get rid of visiting supporters.

Back in the 1980s, after years of dealing with the problems of hooliganism, the majority of the UK’s top flight soccer venues had high fences installed and took on other security measures to contain fans in the event of fights breaking out. However, on April 15 1989, Liverpool had been due to play Nottingham Forest in the semi-final of the FA Cup at Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough Stadium but that match was never to go ahead, as English football faced one of its darkest days: with the measures having been implemented to eradicate hooliganism having been the main contributor to the deaths of 96 football fans and injuries to a further 766.

Corruption is a touchy subject for FIFA at the moment. Recently, John McBeth from Scotland was deselected as the British associations’ FIFA vice-president after he made remarks to journalists about corruption in FIFA. General Secretary Urs Linsi has also left FIFA as president Blatter circles the wagons before FIFA must defend itself against charges of corruption when the ISL case reaches court in March next year.

Supporters can now buy their own football club and manage it their own way. MyFootballClub is a new initiative aiming at giving fans responsibility for decision making.

Rafael Serra, a reporter from Radio Gaucha in Brazil, was beaten up by fans from the Gremio football club when he went to cover the arrival of the team's new goalkeeper in the airport of Porto Alegre.

Whilst the wider football community in Europe may think of Ukraine mainly in terms of its joint bid with Poland for the European Championships in 2012, Ukrainian Ultras Against Racism now urges the very same football community to speak out against the attempts by Ukrainian neo-nazi groups to increase their influence amongst football fans.

The behaviour of violent fans at a match in Nancy last November, has cost the Dutch club Feyenoord its place in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup after UEFA's Appeals Body decided to exclude the Rotterdam team from all UEFA competitons this season. The club feels let down by the police that was warned that banned supporters were on their way to France.

Two Argentinian sports journalists have been beaten up by football fans that were angry with one of the journalists after he had accused fans of threatening players in order to harm a rival team. The journalists were only rescued when police opened the doors into the changing rooms at the stadium to allow them an escape.