Fifa World Cup bidding process not ‘fit for purpose’, says Lord Coe
• Former ethics committee chairman cites lack of progress• Fifa 'took their foot off the pedal' over Coe's reform proposalsLord Coe has expressed his disappointment over Fifa's failure to act upon his anti-corruption World Cup bidding reforms.Durin...
Should there be a new World Cup vote?
Nine of the 24 Fifa members who chose the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts have now been accused of corruption. Should the voting process for the World Cup be reformed and the whole thing run again?
Thai FA head to sue Lord Triesman over 2018 World Cup allegations
• Worawi Makudi will file charges against former FA chairman• 'The accusations are not true and groundless'The Fifa executive committee member Worawi Makudi says he will file charges against the former English Football Association chairman Lord Tri...
Grovelling FA are a laughing stock after World Cup bidding farce | Paul Hayward
After Lord Triesman's explosive allegations, the English game is guilty either of monumental naivety about how Fifa operate or of ignoring the organisation's seedy sideRow back to December in Zurich, where the British prime minister is trying to seduce...
Letters: Blowing the whistle on Fifa’s governance
We welcome the news that the EU is to make reform of Fifa a top priority (Sport, 12 May), following allegations that executive committee members solicited bribes in exchange for their votes for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup venues. In 2007, we reviewed t...
Former MP claims Nicolás Leoz made earlier request for British honour
• Bob Blizzard says suggestion was made to delegation of MPs• South American football chief was allegedly rebuffed in 2007This week's allegations that the South American football chief, Nicolás Leoz, wanted a knighthood to encourage him to vote fo...
Fifa scandal: FA dithers between devil-dancing and moral high ground
The English governing body finds itself caught between carrying on regardless and a Faustian bargain with Sepp Blatter or Mohamed bin HammamNot for the first time, the Football Association finds itself horribly confused and conflicted. If it was repres...
Fifa calls on FA to provide evidence over latest corruption allegations
• Fifa asks FA for report on Lord Triesman's claims• Governing body expresses 'extreme concern'Fifa has expressed "extreme concern" over the allegations of World Cup bidding corruption made by Lord Triesman, and has asked the Football Association t...
Triesman: Premier League wanted Game 39 in return for backing 2018 bid
• Former FA chairman reopens row with Richard Scudamore• Brown announced 2018 bid without telling FALord Triesman, the former Football Association chairman who led the 2018 World Cup bid until May last year, has renewed hostilities with Richard Scu...
Fifa executives accused by former FA chairman Triesman of seeking bribes
Sepp Blatter 'shocked' over allegations as separate claims emerge that Fifa members accepted money from Qatar bidLord Triesman, the former chairman of the FA, has reignited the row over allegations of corruption at the heart of football's governing bo...
Lord Triesman detects a stench about Fifa but there’s a smell here too | Richard Williams
Lord Triesman's parliamentary committee evidence about Nicolás Leoz, Jack Warner and others was depressing but so too was his claim about Richard Scudamore and the 39th gameSo Paraguay's Mr Football, we are told, wanted a knighthood from England in ex...


Fifa gives sweet FA about fans | Mark Perryman