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Confusion over Teixeira undermines Brazil’s World Cup credibility

Posted 3 days ago

Keir Radnedge

Uncertainty over the future of Brazil’s football supremo, Ricardo Teixeira, has raised fears over the country’s capacity to host a successful World Cup.

Brazil’s World Cup preparations: one step forward two steps back

Posted 7 days ago

Keir Radnedge

Just when FIFA thought Brazil was making significant progress in its planning for the 2014 World Cup finals, more bad news arrives.

Gone but not forgotten: Jack Warner’s poisonous legacy

Posted 9 days ago

Keir Radnedge

The whereabouts of missing money intended for emergency relief in Haiti, raises fresh questions about the role played by the disgraced former FIFA vice president Jack Warner.

Buoyant Bundesliga gives Platini plenty to smile about

Posted 14 days ago

Keir Radnedge

With two clubs in the Top 10 of the Deloitte Football Money League for the first time in 14 years, Germany’s Bundesliga is proof that good sense pays off both on and off the pitch.

Egypt post-mortem begins amid claims of premeditated attacks

Posted 21 days ago

Keir Radnedge

The deaths of 74 fans at the end of an Egyptian league game in Port Said between Al Masry and champions Al Ahly, have led to accusations of sinister, politically-motivated forces at work in the country.

Platini comes to the aid of ‘wounded’ Blatter

Posted 23 days ago

Keir Radnedge

Michel Platini believes football must present a united front if is is to combat the threat to it’s integrity posed by criminal elements.

Defiant Blatter comes out fighting

Posted 30 days ago

Keir Radnedge

Sepp Blatter believes that FIFA does not the credit it deserves when things go right, and takes too much blame when things go wrong.

A blueprint for football’s future?

Posted 37 days ago

Keir Radnedge

Despite being sacked by Sepp Blatter, Jerome Champagne harbours no grudge and has produced a manifesto for FIFA to “reconnect with the people of football”.

Blatter confronts another skeleton from his closet

Posted 41 days ago

Keir Radnedge

Lennart Johansson, a former rival of Sepp Blatter, has demanded an independent investigation into the FIFA presidential election of 1998, but his calls are likely to go unheeded.

Uli Hoeness: the scourge of Sepp Blatter

Posted 49 days ago

Keir Radnedge

Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness celebrates his birthday today, but the present he would really relish is the early departure of Sepp Blatter from the FIFA presidency.