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FIFA’s judges deserve judging of their own
So Mohamed Bin Hammam, the president of the Asian Football Confederation, has been banned from football for life.Charged with bribery under the FIFA Code of Ethics, his future has been crushed by...
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Taylor’s Bahrain job is a pox on football’s house
Last week Peter Taylor, the former Tottenham winger and Leicester City manager, was asked by my friend and football-writing colleague John Duerden in Britain’s Guardian newspaper if he had any qualms...
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Another fine FIFA headache
It’s been said for some time in football circles that “the future is Asia”. Indeed the Asian Football Confederation has made it their official motto. But it should be reworded. The farce is Asia.First...
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Tough questions for Sri Lanka’s football godfather
South Asia rarely makes a splash on the world football scene, unless it’s in the context of a Lionel Messi roadshow or the usual blather about the potential of the subcontinent as a future power.So...
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It’s time for the truth
It was a typical response from South-East Asia’s most powerful football figure, Worawi Makudi.Rather than explain just how it could come to be that title deed documents actually show his name owning,...
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Teflon Jack and the sticky truth
A word on this latest secret video business with Jack Warner. That the guy gives a bad name to football officials everywhere, past or present, is beyond dispute. Going by his extensive rap sheet, he’s...
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Ronaldo appointment a clanger
Well, it was always threatening to be an organisational disaster. Now it’s just about a sure thing, with three-time World Player of the Year Ronaldo (pictured, behind booty) installed as the new head...
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FIFA: who would want it?
Paul Kelso has speculated in London’s Telegraph that there are “increasing signs that the president will struggle to see out his full term to 2015, and could be forced out by the end of the year” in a...
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Investigate all FIFA ex-co members
What are the odds?In 2011 Thailand Football Association president Worawi Makudi’s name appeared on title deeds on land for a National Football Training Centre, partly developed with FIFA funds, in...
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Jack’s way or the highway
Oh, to be Jack Warner.Must be wonderful being fawned over by underlings, fanned by tropical breezes, knowing that in Trinidad, his island home, he’s practically a king.Who dares take on Teflon Jack?...
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