Transparency International withdrew its assistance to international soccer’s governing body.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger discusses goal line technology.
He'll make more gaffs
The architect designing one of Qatar's main 2022 World Cup stadiums says installing air conditioning in all the venues is the wrong approach.
ZURICH: Sepp Blatter added another layer to his FIFA reform program on Monday, pledging to revive a panel of experts drawn from across world football.
For the second time in as many days, the FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, has hinted that heads could roll as part of his two-year plan to clean up the organisation after a year of unprecedented sleaze and scandal.
We are all conscious of the sad reality that corruption is a widespread phenomenon in politics, business, even in our churches, and essentially in most aspects of life. It is not that we like it or accept it, but we have come to realize that it is there and that it is not going away. It is less clear, therefore, we so many are ready to believe that the world of sports somehow should be an exception, should have managed to insulate itself from what is happening elsewhere.
This is the most important thing that I have written or said in some time. It is a copy of my speech from this year’s ‘Play the Game’ conference in Cologne, Germany.
Fifa is probing the deputy chairman of its disciplinary committee and treasurer of the Oceania Football Confederation, Dr Muhammad Shamsud-Dean Sahu Khan.
Hosting the 2014 FIFA World Cup was supposed to provide an unalloyed boon to Brazil’s global image. Yet tournament preparations have highlighted many structural weaknesses in Latin America’s largest country, and predictions that the World Cup will deliver enormous economic benefits should be treated with skepticism.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — FIFA stepped up its investigation into executive committee member Worawi Makudi on Wednesday as the governing body remains unconvinced the Thai official didn’t use development funds for his own gain.
Fifa says Thai football boss Worawi Makudi will face a formal investigation by its ethics committee unless he provides proof by 1 December he did not misuse $860,000 (£535,000) of football development funding.
An independent investigation into the bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups should still be carried out despite a whistle-blower retracting allegations that Qatar paid bribes to Fifa members, a committee of MPs said yesterday.
Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner says Oliver Camps, former president of Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation, was right to quit the FA he has run for 19 years
Anti-corruption campaigners Transparency International have called on Fifa to be more open about potential conflicts of interest following the governing body's decision to award a TV deal to a company led by a relative of president Sepp Blatter.
Deals were also negotiated with Fox in the United States, SBS in Australia and Bell Media in Canada, among others.
Infront has been led since 2006 by Philippe Blatter, now its president and chief executive, who is a nephew of FIFA President Sepp Blatter.
The man who replaced Franz Beckenbauer at the top table of FIFA has again questioned the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Here is a prediction? Blatter in face of the the political repercussions following the imminent release of the ISL documents, will resign today?
ISL Documents to be released.
Warner said he would unleash his threatened "tsunami" of disclosure about FIFA once Mohamed Bin Hammam's appeal against his lifetime ban had been heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Expect a watered down conclusion - featuring the BVIFA President Franka Pickering, who is seen raising her hand in anticipation for additional bribe money from other delegates who may be feeling a bit pious at excepting a bribe.
Former FA chairman Lord Triesman has called on Sepp Blatter to stand down from the Fifa presidency along with "more or less all" of its ruling officials.
Jack Warner has been caught on tape apparently urging fellow Caribbean officials to accept cash gifts from Mohamed Bin Hammam, the disgraced former presidential candidate.
Play the Game 2011 Day 4 Part 4
England's doomed bid to host the 2018 World Cup will become the centre of controversy again when BBC Radio Four broadcast a drama about the failed campaign around the first anniversary of the vote in December.
September 25 - UEFA President Michel Platini wants the European Union to protect his organisation against civil court cases brought by clubs in the wake of the FC Sion affair.
The pro-active Ukrainian women's movement FEMEN have staged a topless protest against what they say are UEFA’s plans to turn economically weak Ukraine into a destination for sex tourists from around the globe.
As such, most supporters from different clubs hobnob together perfectly well outside the realms of a football stadium. Epicaricacy, though is never far away and fervent banter hits the web chat rooms. The football social network site Upredictum with over 7,000 teams has many occurrences of how well opposing fans can interact together. Provocation can be easily resolved in the website’s Prediction Competitions, as fans, players; managers prove their football knowhow with skillful predictions.
The England Under-20 squad were met in Colombia on Wednesday by a horde of dancing police women. L