Got there in the end. It’s taken him 12 years to get there but Sepp Blatter, the former president of Fifa, has finally admitted the decision to hand the World Cup to Qatar was a ‘mistake’. In 2010, Blatter was the helm of world football’s governing body when Qatar was given the 2022 tournament, along […]

3 years ago

Both men were banned from football for eight years in 2015 Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and former UEFA president Michel Platini have been acquitted of corruption by a Swiss court. Criminal proceedings were launched into the pair after a payment of two million Swiss francs (£1.7m) from FIFA to Platini was uncovered in 2015. […]

4 years ago

FIFA’s sponsorship revenue for this summer’s World Cup is set to plummet amid bribery scandals involving football’s governing body over the last three years. A report by Nielsen, a leading global information & measurement company, predicts that FIFA will see a $179 million dip in sponsorship revenue at this month’s World Cup in Russia compared […]

8 years ago

“I never touched the balls”

10 years ago

Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter paid himself €29.5m in pay rise and bonuses between 2011 and 2015, according to Fifa lawyers. Details emerged of ‘irregular payments’ made by Blatter, and his former deputies Jerome Valcke and Markus Kattner, which total €70 million over a five-year period. The organisation’s lawyers claim the payments violate Swiss law, and evidence will be […]

10 years ago

Two’s company

10 years ago