During FIFA's World Cup in South Africa, football fans may get their drinks served on a coaster with the message: "Don't leave this bar without picking up a condom." At least that is one suggestion from a recent consultation process in South Africa on how to deal with the very real problem that close to half a million football fans will come looking for a good time in a country where 1 in 5 are estimated to be infected by HIV.

Hans Klaus, FIFA’s director of communications and public affairs is to leave the world body just six months before next year’s 2010 World Cup.

American newspaper, the New York Times went to Germany to take a closer look at the state of German football in the wake of the match-fixing scandal.

The fifth world cup for ‘national’ teams that are not members of FIFA will be held in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2012 with up to a dozen teams.

El Salvador, Samoa and Togo are being monitored by FIFA for political interference and could soon join Iraq and Kuwait in the international wilderness.

FIFA has been forced to call in international crime-fighters Interpol to form a task-force to combat a wave of match-fixing and bribery that is sweeping through the game.

The Asian Football Confederation has condemned the decision by the Iraq Olympic Committee to dissolve the country’s football association.

A deal to ensure that Kosovan clubs are compensated properly when players sign for foreign sides should be rubber-stamped this Friday (December 4) at FIFA’s executive committee meeting in Cape Town, South Africa.