By Andrew Warshaw at the Sorbonne University in Paris
September 11 – A new initiative aimed at raising awareness among young athletes of the dangers of match-fixing and manipulating results was launched here today in a joint enterprise between the Qatar Olympic Committee and the International Centre for Sports Security (ICSS).
By Andrew Warshaw
September 9 – Over one third of top footballers have been riskily using food supplements to enhance their performance, according to FIFA, even though there is no scientific evidence to prove they have any benefit.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 7 – The International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), the not-for-profit organisation based in Qatar, highlighted a number of pressing needs to make sport events safer when its officials attended this week’s Sponsors Sports Venue Summit in Munich.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 3 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter has no intention of standing down before his final term of office is completed – and still believes UEFA boss Michel Platini is his most likely successor despite the pair drifting apart in recent months.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 30 – Just weeks after announcing a revamped Ethics Committee aimed at combating corruption as part of his road map to reform, FIFA President Sepp Blatter has criticised one of the body’s two independent chiefs.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 24 – Hans-Joachim Eckert, one of the two newly appointed independent chairmen of FIFA’s revamped Ethics Committee, has made his first decision, confirming that former Presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam is provisionally suspended while bribery allegations are re-investigated.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 23 – Mohamed Bin Hammam, Asia’s most powerful football administrator until last year’s cash-for-votes scandal, has been plunged into fresh controversy by a damning new report alleging he misappropriated funds while President of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
By Andrew Warshaw
July 20 – Jack Warner, the former FIFA vice-president who resigned over last year’s cash-for-votes affair, says he feels “relieved and comforted” after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) annulled the lifetime ban on his alleged partner in crime, Mohamed Bin Hammam.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 17 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter today defiantly shrugged off calls for his resignation in the wake of the ISL bribery affair as world football’s governing body appointed two new independent supremos in the war against corruption – notably among its own officials.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 15 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter wants his predecessor, Joao Havelange, stripped of his honorary Presidency because of his role in the ISL bribery scandal.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 12 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter today mounted a staunch defence of his alleged role in the ISL bribery affair as his position as leader of world football’s governing body came under fresh scrutiny.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 11 – The ISL corruption scandal that has tainted both world football’s governing body, FIFA, and its President, Sepp Blatter, for over a decade took a giant step forwards today when João Havelange, Blatter’s predecessor, and his former son-in-law, Ricardo Teixeira, were confirmed as having received millions of dollars in kickbacks from FIFA’s former marketing partner.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 11 – The next stage in cleaning up FIFA after the most tarnished year in its history takes place next week when football’s world governing body appoints two figures who will play key roles in trying to banish corruption.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 9 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter believes his counterpart at UEFA, Michel Platini, will finally see the light and embrace goal-line technology.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
July 5 – After years of foot-dragging, the International Football Association Board (IFAB), the game’s lawmakers, finally gave the go-ahead here today to goal-line technology following a global clamour by fans, players, managers – and even a majority of officials.