Emirates Airlines, an important FIFA sponsor who back in November raised questions regarding FIFA’s reform process, now claim that they are satisfied with FIFA’s efforts to clean up its organisation.

Comment: Despite being a provisional member of UEFA, Gibraltar is being denied the chance to play international friendly matches due to a farcical mix-up between the European body and FIFA.

The long-running battle between FIFA and former Ex-Co member and Asian football president Mohamed Bin Hammam seems to have reached an end. In a statement yesterday, FIFA states that Bin Hammam has received a lifetime ban from world football based on the final report from the FIFA Ethics Committee.

There are six months left of the reform process being carried out by FIFA in the wake of a string of scandals that have seriously damaged the organisation’s credibility. Michael Hershman, one of the key figures on FIFA’s new independent governance committee (IGC), argues that President Sepp Blatter is facing a “once in a lifetime” opportunity and that, regardless of the internal opposition, change is coming to world football’s governing body.

With allegations of incompetence, Guyana’s national football team has rebelled against its own federation and refused to play. Steve Menary reports on the fights for better governance in several Caribbean federations after last year’s bribery scandal that scattered the world of football.

A book written by Bonita Mersiades, planned to be published March 2013, reveals the details of the lobbyism going on behind closed doors in the FIFA World Cup bidding process.

Now you can watch two more keynote sessions from the EASM 2012 conference. Lord Triesman and Jérõme Champagne talks about FIFA culture and equality in football, and Jens Sejer Andersen presents Seven sins of omission in sport and James M. Dorsey fills us in on football in the Mid-East.

If you missed out on Mark Pieth and Theo Zwanziger's presentations during the EASM 2012 conference, here is your chance. See what Mark Pieth really said in Denmark and watch the video from the keynote seesion.