Qatar 2022: eyeball to eyeball over football
It may have the World Cup, but Qatar also faces nine more years of gossip and grumbling – as Sports Correspondent Keme Nzerem finds at a meeting of international football’s great and good.
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Michael Garcia’s investigation into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids will be completed next week. The question now is whether he will look at new bribery allegations.
Fifa’s ethics investigator Michael Garcia says he will finish his inquiry into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids by next week, despite fresh allegations about Qatar.
The chairman of the FA, Greg Dyke, tells Channel 4 News the contest for the 2022 World Cup should be re-examined if there is evidence of corruption.
Sports stars, including Luiz Suarez, post pictures of themselves eating a banana, in support of Barcelona footballer Dani Alves, who responded to racist taunts during a match by doing the same.
Searing temperatures at the Australian Open tennis tournament have raised concerns that athletes are exposed to dangerous conditions in the pursuit of excellence.
Then take a look at 2030. What will football be like in 15 years if current trends continue? Broadcaster and writer John Anderson imagines the future of the beautiful game.
It may have the World Cup, but Qatar also faces nine more years of gossip and grumbling – as Sports Correspondent Keme Nzerem finds at a meeting of international football’s great and good.
Much like political party delegates in Brighton, Bournemouth or Birmingham, everyone in football knows this week’s FIFA meeting in Zurich is politics through and through.
Suggestions are coming to light that Qatar’s petrodollars and global deals helped secure its World Cup bid. But could the country be robbed of the event?
As FA Chairman Greg Dyke says it is too “dangerous” to hold the World Cup in the Doha heat, Channel 4 News examines if the competition should be moved, and looks at the hottest sports on earth.
The Catholic Church signs the Pope up for his own Twitter account but how many of his 1.2 billion religious followers will be reading his tweets?
The use of goal-line technology in football is approved in an historic decision by the International FA Board (IFAB).
There has been widespread anger in Egpyt after 74 people died in football violence. As Jonathan Rugman reports, conspiracy theories abound about how the tragedy could have happened.
Officials in Egypt say at least 74 people have been killed after a football pitch invasion in the city of Port Said.
Suarez may not have intended to be racist, but that’s beside the point – the FA ruling is about casual racism and words, says sports reporter Keme Nzerem.