FIFA President Sepp Blatter stood in front of the world’s media in Zurich, Switzerland on Monday afternoon and, like a former Europe-based monarch, he demanded that the tide stop rising.

Match fixing and organisational corruption are intertwined and sports organisations do not have sufficient tools to investigate, says Allan Hansen

After allegations of bribery, FIFA’s Ethics Committee suspended Jack Warner and Mohamad Bin Hammam. The latter withdrew his candidature yesterday, leaving the incumbent FIFA President Sepp Blatter to carry on his race for re-election unopposed.

Three of FIFA’s most powerful men, President Sepp Blatter, presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam and Vice-President and would-be “king maker” Jack Warner face the Ethics Committee Sunday in Zurich, Switzerland while a fourth, Executive Committee member and CONCACAF General Secretary Chuck Blazer, can feasibly sink one, two or all three parties or even go down in flames himself.

Comment: FIFA's new anti-corruption initiative leaves a lot to wish for, says match fixing expert and author Declan Hill in this comment where he expresses worries that without money put aside for enforcement and investigation - also into corruption inside FIFA - the new centre will be a 'sham'

Analysis: Putin’s increasing influence in the Olympic world and the awarding of the FIFA World Cup to Russia and Qatar make it clear for everybody: Everything is for sale in the world of sport – and the worst is to be expected. The German freelance journalist Jens Weinreich looks behind the curtains of international sport politics.

”I have an announcement to make: I’m running for the presidency of FIFA in the election to be held on June 1 2011”. Sports illustrated journalist Grant Wahl has fathered the announcement, and is, on top of that, a strong advocate for a change in FIFA.

In the wake of the corruption allegations that clouded the FIFA World Cup elections in December last year, Swiss politicians now want to put pressure on the sports federations currently enjoying tax exemptions and other fiscal advantages residing in Switzerland.