. Match-fixing at the highest level in Turkish football has eroded all trust in the Turkish domestic game. As a report on this website detailed in March (click here to read), Fenerbahçe and others have been proved to be involved in the systematic fixing of games, with those involved including club presidents, senior officials, coaches and […]

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 issue of corruption in sport. […]

By Nick Harris 21 September 2010 David Douglas, the former high-ranking Metropolitan Police officer who investigated match-fixing allegations against the world No1 snooker player John Higgins, has spoken in detail for the first time about why he concluded Higgins never intended to fix any match. Higgins was banned earlier this month for six months, and […]

26 August 2010 Two ringleaders in an alleged match-fixing ring that target football matches in Germany and other European countries have been charged with aggravated fraud. According to the state prosecutors in Bochum, the two men were involving in a ring that paid £286,000 in bribes to players and officials in 24 matches (10 in […]

15 April 2010 Uefa’s ongoing fight to eradicate match-fixing notched up a significant victory today when The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland upheld several Uefa verdicts as CAS dealt with a match-fixing case for the first time in its history. The Macedonia club FK Pobeda had been banned for eight years by […]

24 February 2010 Uefa, football’s governing body for Europe, has confirmed it has banned for life a referee from Bosnia Herzegovina, Novo Panić, and suspended two others after information received during ongoing investigations by German police into match-fixing across Europe. Michel Platini, Uefa’s president, has spoken today on the cases today, saying: “I promised strong […]

By James Corbett 4 June 2016                 CLICK HERE: FULL GUIDE TO THE ELECTION In September 1997, when Britain was still intoxicated by the biggest general election landslide in the country’s history, the Labour Party spin doctor Derek Draper published a book, entitled ‘Blair’s 100 Days.’ A self-styled […]

Part of Sportingintelligence’s guide to the 2016 FIFA presidential election: HOME PAGE here. . Gianni Infantino: (just) streets apart from the man he seeks to replace By James Corbett 18 February 2016 If Sepp Blatter’s defining legacy of a 40-year long FIFA career will be as the individual who truly globalised football, the central irony of his […]

Part of Sportingintelligence’s guide to the 2016 FIFA presidential election: HOME PAGE here . By James Corbett at Wembley 1 February 2016 FIFA presidential candidate Gianni Infantino today unveiled a 90-day action plan for his first three months in office if he wins the election scheduled for later this month, 26 February. Appearing at a […]

Part of Sportingintelligence’s guide to the 2016 FIFA presidential election: HOME PAGE here . How the manifesto promises compare NB: an earlier version of manifesto comparisons is here; before all candidates were confirmed . By Bonita Mersiades 1 February 2016 With less than four weeks to go until Election Day, all candidates have now issued or updated […]