The two-year suspension by the World Soccer body, FIFA, on the Confederation of African Football vice President Farah Addo will not affect activities of the continental and regional soccer bodies, officials said.

Knowlede bank: The Football Association of Greenland challenged the FIFA-monopoly on international matches when it organised a friendly against Tibet. The Greenlanders want to be able to play international games without being forced to depend on the Danish Football Association.

Knowledge bank: I am an Argentine journalist who, for many years, has been following the developments in Brazilian football.

Knowledge bank: In Liberia, Don Bosco Homes has succesfully used soccer tournaments to rehabilitate child soldiers and raise awareness of HIV/Aids and childrens' rights.

Knowledge bank: In his speech at Play the Game 2002, investigative reporter Andrew Jennings took a close look at the members of FIFA's Executive Committee and the audit committee to examine charges of corruption against FIFA. Jennings is not optimistic that football sleaze will decline in the coming years - on the contrary.

The Football Association's new chief executive Adam Crozier rocked the old order shortly after taking over in January, by daring to appear in public with neither a tie nor even a blazer, which have been standard FA issue for decades. Last weekend the former Saatchi & Saatchi chief executive stretched this new dawn close to revolution, startling the football world by presenting the unthinkable: a plan for the FA.

The Van Nistelrooy affair, as it can now be called, has allowed choice glimpses into Manchester United plc's rancorous internal politics, and provided a glorious modern football moment, in the shape of United's lawyer and finance director addressing the nation, po-faced about the 23 year old Dutchman's knee.

One of English footballs greatest ironies is the extent to which the fortunes of the top clubs, and their chairmen, have been founded on the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster. The Taylor Report which followed recommended, that public money, via 160m grants from the Football Trust, should help fund the compulsory seating of grounds, and it has led to the enrichment of many of the same people.