Keme Nzerem
When will Fifa finally hit the iceberg?
Fifa has almost certainly broken it’s own statutes. Imposing emergency measures now might just be the massive lifeboat world football so badly needs.
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Keme Nzerem
Fifa allegations: now questions are mounting for Michel Platini too
The Swiss authorities are investigating a payment made by Fifa boss Sepp Blatter to Michel Platini.
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Keme Nzerem
Fifa: don’t think it’s all over, there’s more to come
The most interesting thing to emerge from today’s FIFA briefing by a country mile – there is more to come.
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Alex Thomson
How football is tarnished and damaged by ignoring free speech
Gratifyingly, with the new season and the new rash of clubs busy censoring the media, the Great Banning Debate is now very much alive. Good.
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Alex Thomson
How can it be normal to ban journalists from the football?
There are football clubs in England and Scotland who feel it is perfectly normal to ban any journalist guilty of perpetrating journalism they disapprove of.
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Keme Nzerem
World Cup corruption probe ‘will take longer than 90 minutes’
If corruption is indeed proven, the vote could be nullified. So where would that leave Russia and Qatar?
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Keme Nzerem
Now that Sepp Blatter’s gone, anything is possible in Fifa-land
Before he finally leaves the Fifa presidency, is it possible Sepp Blatter could preside over a radical change in the way football’s governing body is run?
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Keme Nzerem
Can Uefa’s Platini win the power play to become Fifa president?
Uefa President Michel Platini is in Berlin for Saturday’s Champions League final. Will the Frenchman decide to stand to replace Sepp Platter at the head of Fifa?
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Pressure on Fifa President Blatter to resign
Sepp Blatter, the under-fire Fifa president, says he ‘cannot monitor everyone all the time’, as calls grow for his resignation over the Fifa arrests.
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Paul Mason
Fifa arrests: why they’ll worry big corporations
When US prosecutors say Fifa’s execs have “corrupted global football”, that will ring alarm bells in every global brand associated with football.
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Keme Nzerem
‘This is anything but an election’ – Figo slams Fifa as he withdraws candidacy
With two more candidates out of the race to replace him, the opposition camp may be less fragmented, but Sepp Blatter’s reign as president of Fifa doesn’t look like coming to an end any time soon.
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Alex Thomson
Hillsborough: the real truth, 26 years on
Spare a moment for those who lost their lives in such terrible fashion, but pause too for all those who struggled afterwards amid pain and grief.
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Alex Thomson
The strange case of Rangers and the Prophet Mohammed cartoon
An ill-judged tweet alleged to have come from a prominent Rangers supporter who is now a non-executive director at the club, should prompt an immediate apology.
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Alex Thomson
Hillsborough inquest: police chief gives evidence
The relatives of the 96 have fought long and hard for this real inquest instead of the previous whitewash – and they have waited long, so long, to hear David Duckenfield cross-examined.
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FactCheck: have we kicked racism out of football?
Chelsea fans have been filmed abusing a black man on the Paris Metro. An isolated incident – or proof that racism is still alive and well in English football?
