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Fifa crisis

  • Exclusive: World’s biggest litigation funder Harbour strikes £2m deal with sports lawyers to fund ‘no win, no fee’ FIFA lawsuits

    Football Litigation

    Private litigation funder Harbour has struck a £2m deal with specialist law firm Morgan Sports Law, through which Harbour plans to cover footballers’ legal costs in employment disputes put forward on a “no win, no fee” basis. Harbour will cover any legal costs in disputes between professional footballers and their employers, and take a cut [...]

  • Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini charged with fraud over £1.35m payment

    Blatter and Platini charged with fraud over £1.35m payment

    Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, the former presidents of Fifa and Uefa, are facing trial after being charged with fraud by Swiss prosecutors. The charges relate to a payment of 2m Swiss francs (£1.35m) made by Fifa to Platini in 2011, when Blatter ran football’s world governing body. Blatter, who was forced out of Fifa [...]

  • Laura McAllister interview: Former Wales captain and Fifa Council candidate on women’s football, greedy clubs and moderniser Infantino

    The former Wales sweeper aiming to be Fifa's new broom

    Wales have come to be a force to be reckoned with in international football. Their men’s team, led by galactico Gareth Bale, have qualified for successive European Championships for the first time, while their women have also continued their steady rise up Fifa’s world rankings. Now Welshwoman Laura McAllister is aiming to make a similar [...]

  • Francois Carrard: Fifa names former IOC boss as head of reform process

    August 11, 2015

    Dr Francois Carrard, a former director general of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), will lead a committee tasked with reforming scandal-hit Fifa. Read more: Ambushed Fifa boss Sepp Blatter to step aside in February Football's governing body today named its 16-man "2016 reform committee" to develop a package of proposals for change by September. Yet [...]

  • What would Fifa under wannabe president Michel Platini look like? Sepp Blatter’s potential successor on the Qatar World Cup, FFP, goal-line technology and sin bin punishments

    July 29, 2015

    Michel Platini is the bookies' favourite to replace Sepp Blatter as Fifa president after the current Uefa boss confirmed his intention to stand as a candidate in next year's election. Read more: Uefa boss Michel Platini will run to replace Sepp Blatter A legendary player, Platini has been more divisive in his role as a football [...]

  • Fifa corruption crisis: Sepp Blatter and co added to organised crime exhibition at Las Vegas Mob Museum alongside Al Capone and John Gotti

    July 29, 2015

    Fifa is being added as a subject at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas' International Organized Crime exhibit. Read more: Fifa boss Sepp Blatter deserves a Nobel Prize, says Russian President Vladimir Putin Football's scandal-hit governing body will join gangsters Al Capone and John Gotti as subjects in America's National Museum of Organized Crime and [...]

  • Who will be the next Fifa president? Uefa boss Michel Platini will run to replace Sepp Blatter

    July 29, 2015

    Michel Platini has put himself in the running to replace Sepp Blatter as Fifa president in February's election. Four continental football federations have given the president of Uefa their backing prompting him to announce his candidacy. In a letter sent to the presidents and general secretaries of Fifa's 209 member associations, Platini said: This was a [...]

  • Fifa boss Sepp Blatter deserves a Nobel Prize, says Russian President Vladimir Putin

    July 28, 2015

    Sepp Blatter might not be welcome at the FA's headquarters anytime soon, but it seems he can always rely on a friendly face at the Kremlin.    Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Swiss TV the Fifa boss, whose organisation is currently engulfed in corruption allegations, deserves a Nobel Prize.    It's almost certainly just [...]

  • Fifa sponsors Visa, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola come together to demand change at football’s governing body

    July 24, 2015

    Fifa has admitted it has struggled to attract new sponsors amid allegations of widespread corruption within the organisation. Read more: Visa threatens to withdraw Fifa sponsorship General secretary Jerome Valcke said the uncertainty surrounding president Sepp Blatter's future and the arrests of top officials had put negotiations for future sponsorships on hold. Football's governing body has [...]

  • Fifa’s Sepp Blatter showered with fake money in prank by comedian Simon Brodkin: “This is for North Korea in 2026”

    July 20, 2015

    Outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter fell victim to a news conference prank yesterday, when British comedian Simon Brodkin threw a stash of fake banknotes over the controversial head of world football. Brodkin – who uses the stage name Lee Nelson – said “this is for North Korea in 2026” as he approached Blatter with a [...]

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