Will last week's events be the beginning of the end for Sepp Blatter and will Qatar be stripped of the right to host the World Cup? The findings in "The Ugly Game" provide a good basis for trying to answer these questions, says Andreas Selliaas in this review.

FIFA stands at a fork in the road and this could be a moment of change, say observers, but even if Blatter should unexpectedly lose the election today, FIFA will not change without fundamental changes to its organisational structure.

In a statement issued after the FIFA arrests, European football calls for the postponement of the FIFA congress as well as the presidential election.

A total of fourteen people are indicted for racketeering, conspiracy and corruption involving payments worth up to $150m, writes the US justice department while the Swiss authorities have launched an investigation into the allocation of the 2018/2022 World Cups.

Two of the four candidates for the seat as FIFA president have pulled out of the election race, leaving Jordanian Prince Ali as Blatter’s only challenger in the race.

The International Trade Union Confederation has joined the FIFA reform group New FIFA Now in a campaign urging World Cup sponsors to take a stand against the conditions for migrant workers in Qatar preparing the country for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

By amending a sports law according to UEFA and FIFA requirements, Greek football has warded off a ban from international competition.

A planned anti-Qatari protest ahead of a match between Chelsea and Manchester United, the first major fan demonstration against the 2022 World Cup host, and the imminent publication of a Sunday Times book documenting Qatari political interference in world soccer body FIFA’s 2011 presidential election that returned Sepp Blatter to office at the behest of the FIFA president casts a shadow over next month’s FIFA election and is likely to renew debate about the integrity of the Qatari bid.