• By Andreas Selliaas
    04.07.2011 /
    Comment: On Saturday 18 June US President Barack Obama played a historical round of golf with John Boehner, the Republican leader in Congress. Never before has a sitting president invited his strongest opponent for a round of golf.
  • 24.06.2011 /
    Former FIFA Vice-President Jack Warner is gone for good from the corridors of football power in Zurich, Switzerland. His former deputy, CONCACAF General Secretary Chuck Blazer, now calls the shots in the most populous confederation of the western hemisphere.
  • By Andreas Selliaas
    09.06.2011 /
    Comment: On May 27 Alaistar Campbell - Tony Blair's former spin doctor – used the name FIFAgate on the corruption allegations and backstabbing in FIFA before the Congress in Zürich at the beginning of June.
  • By Jens Sejer Andersen- International director, Play the Game
    06.06.2011 /
    Comment: The FIFA reforms introduced by its re-elected president Blatter may end up increasing corruption rather than stopping it, and there is a real risk of split in the so-called FIFA family
  • 01.06.2011 /
    As the sole candidate and with 174 of 208 member associations in favour of having the election despite English FA Chairman’s attempts for postponement, Sepp Blatter is set for re-election at today’s FIFA congress.
  • 31.05.2011 /
    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.
  • 30.05.2011 /
    Match fixing and organisational corruption are intertwined and sports organisations do not have sufficient tools to investigate, says Allan Hansen
  • 30.05.2011 /
    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.

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