Knowledge bank: Rafael Maranhao speaks at Play the Game 2005 about corruption and money laundering in Brazilian football.

Knowledge bank: Professor Christine Oughton, Director, Football Governance Research Centre, speaks about strategies and corporate governance in football.

Investigative reporter Andrew Jennings speaks about his work of getting nearer the truth about corruption and bribery inside the top management of FIFA.

Knowledge bank: Kenyan Bob Munro speaks about the culture of corruption in Kenyan football.

The first day of the Play the Game conference concluded with an in-depth examination of one of the biggest problems facing world football - the exploitation of players.

Have you ever left a football match feeling that the result was so unfair or bemusing that it must have been fixed?

Knowledge bank: Sports federations need to consider ethical guidelines and other precautionary measures against an escalating culture of match fixing. Otherwise match fixing will replace doping as the biggest threat to the credibility of sport in a few years.

So argues Henrik H. Brandt, director of the Danish Institute for Sports Studies (idan.dk) and in this article he provides an overview of a number of recent match fixing scandals.

Knowledge bank: The popular perception is that the same clubs from each country compete every year as cash from the Champions League fuels greater domination of domestic European competitions by a handful of clubs. Yet research shows this is not the case in Switzerland, Sweden, France or even Germany, where a variety of different clubs regularly enter and are competitive in the Champions League.