By Nick Harris 17 November 2013 A new report published this evening by Amnesty International and based on interviews with workers, employers and government officials, says that Qatar’s construction sector is “rife with abuse, with workers employed on multi-million dollar projects suffering serious exploitation.” Amnesty say that the full 166-page report – The Dark Side of Migration: […]
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Fifa accused of ‘playing God’ by stopping 17-year-old Briton’s college education
By Steve Menary 6 September 2013 FIFA has been accused of playing God after football’s world governing body used rules designed to prevent child trafficking to deny a 17-year-old British schoolboy the chance to take up a place on a college course – in Wiltshire. To make matters worse, the boy’s family has concerns that […]
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Champagne proposals for Fifa reform set stage for presidential bid
By Steve Menary 16 January 2012 FIFA’s former director of international relations Jérôme Champagne has entered the debate over the future governance of the world body by sending a detailed assessment of the problems facing the game and potential remedies to all 208 members. A former French diplomat, member of the 1998 World Cup organising […]
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What’s a vote worth? How Fifa’s attempt to devolve power could be a bribers’ charter
* This exclusive feature from Issue Three of The Blizzard was offered to SportingIntelligence by the collective of writers at The Blizzard. To read more brilliant and original work from the same collective download Issue Three of The Blizzard which is out now on a pay-what-you-like basis . By Steve Menary 6 December 2011 Going by […]
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The Sports Lawyer: ‘Should City leave Tevez in the reserves indefinitely, he could have recourse to Fifa rules’
* THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses the Tevez case, and the […]
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Charge sheet: Fifa’s murky dealings in the Blatter era
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 May 2011 . When Sepp Blatter took to the stage in Zurich on Monday, Fifa’s president declared: ‘Crisis, what is a crisis?’ In a display widely reported as “arrogant” and “contemptuous” (and which can be viewed in full here), the 75-year-old Swiss, the head […]
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EXPOSED: The secret document that shows Fifa’s own ExCo members wanted ticket tout Jack Warner booted out
By Nick Harris 7 December 2010 As the Fifa vice-president Jack Warner claims that the world governing body could not have voted for England’s 2018 World Cup bid because of the English media, sportingintelligence publishes an extract from a secret Fifa document (scan at bottom of page) that shows some of his own colleagues believed […]
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Race for 2018 World Cup wide open after Fifa ethics action (permutations in detail)
By Nick Harris 18 November 2010 The battle for the right to stage the 2018 World Cup is wide open today as a race already full of twists and turns – with more to come – enters its final fortnight. After an investigation by Fifa’s ethics committee in the wake of reports of corruption by […]
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Fifa World Cup bid scandal: Two ExCo members suspended pending investigation
By Nick Harris 20 October 2010 Two members of Fifa’s Executive Committee, Amos Adamu of Nigeria and Tahiti’s Reynald Temarii, have been suspended today following alleged deals to sell their 2018 and 2022 Word Cup hosting votes, as exposed by the Sunday Times last weekend. Four other Fifa officials who were implicated in the ST reports – […]
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Fifa hearing: Two ExCo members, three ‘favours’ and a pair of alleged $10m bribes
By Nick Harris 19 October 2010 Fifa’s ethics committee, chaired by Switzerland’s Claudio Sulser, will convene on Wednesday for a meeting that will consider whether to sack two Fifa Executive Committe (ExCo) members – Amos Adamu of Nigeria, and Tahiti’s Reynald Temarii – implicated in alleged deals to sell their 2018 and 2022 Word Cup hosting votes, […]
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