“Match-fixers will be at the World Cup in South Africa. They will be there approaching players, referees and team officials and trying to bribe them to fix matches. They will be there because there has been no effective action on the part of FIFA to clean up this problem,” says Declan Hll in this article.

"Anyone who flies the South African flag while blowing a vuvuzela and mentioning the current year is in direct contravention of FIFA copyright laws and will be summarily transported (to Siberia).”

Football politics is a dirty game. In an interview with the Danish magazine “Tipsbladet”, Lennart Johansson, former president of UEFA, accuses FIFA president Sepp Blatter of corrupt behaviour – accusations which have often been echoed by other sources and media.

FIFA has signed off all 10 venues for this summer’s World Cup even though the venue for the final will not be officially handed over for another month.

FIFA’s suspension of Iraq has been lifted but the Sultanate of Brunei Darussalam has edged closer to being expelled from the world body.

The Asian Football Confederation promises to challenge Sepp Blatter’s 12 year long reign as FIFA president at the elections next year.

FIFA has moved to quell anxiety in the South African media over press freedom by making written promises to a group of media owners in a letter received by Play the Game.

FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke has cited media in England and Germany as being behind a wave of negative publicity ahead of this summer’s World Cup in South Africa.