In October last year, Greek sports editor Philippos Syrigos of the Athens daily Eleftherotypia was brutally attacked when he left a radio station after a radio show. Thanks to emergency surgery Philippos Syrigos survived and in November he will attend Play the Game 2005 to talk about the price of reporting the dark side of sport.

Knowledge bank: In an assessment of women's role in hockey, Laura Robinson revisits some of the cases of sexual abuse from her book "Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canada's National Sport". She also adds some very disturbing new stories about hockey players abusing girls as young as nine.

Two football fans are dead, two families lives devastated, but only a week later, football has already moved on.