Journalists have also played active roles in the Juventus match fixing scandal. Eight journalists are currently under police investigation and last week icon tv host Aldo Biscardi was forced to resign from his hugely popular soccer talk show after allegations that the show had been too favourable to Juventus.

On 2 May 2006, a small news reporting team investigating a story was assaulted by a group of professional football players from Club Sport Ancash, writes the Institute for Press and Society (IPYS), Lima. The incident took place in Huaraz, capital of the Ancash region in northwestern Peru.

In Bangladesh, the government has set up an independent inquiry to find out why police attacked 20 sports journalists and photographers at Chittagong Divisonal Stadium during the lunch break of a cricket match between Bangladesh and Australia on Sunday 16 April.

A Danish sports editor has reported a death threat to the police after a sponsor of a local handball club threatened to "smash up your face and find some people to kill you."

Troubles continue to build in Trinidad and Tobago for FIFA vice president Jack Warner. A government minister and the Trinidad Expres are now asking FIFA what it knows about a strange deal Jack Warner put together in order to fund four stadiums built for the 2001 World Youth Championships staged in the small island state.

A cartoon of Iranian soccer players dressed as suicide bombers has caused friction between the Tagesspiegel newspaper in Berlin and Iran. The cartoon was published on 10 February as a comment on preparations for the football World Cup but it has angered Iranians to such a degree that the Iranian embassy in Germany has demanded a written apology and the cartoonist has gone into hiding after receiving several death threats.

Frustrated local soccer fans may be behind a recent armed attack on the home of sports journalist Manuel Gilberto García on 22 January in the city of Jutiapa in Guatemala. Two bullets penetrated the door of his home, landing inside, but luckily neither Garcia nor his family was hurt.

In an about-turn, FIFA has now decided to grant accreditation to cover the World Cup to reporter Lasana Liburd of the Trinidad Express. Earlier in January, Liburd was denied accreditation by the local Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (T&TFF) after writing a series of articles which incurred the wrath of FIFA vice-president Jack Warner.