

Articles tagged with "corruption"
Reports of Match-Fixing Rock Spain
By chris | December 4th, 2008Match fixing in football is, unfortunately, nothing new. Some may even say it's par for the course, particularly if we're talking about Eastern European football ...
Steaua to follow Porto out the CL door?
By Rob | June 11th, 2008This news is a few days old, but forgive me, there has been a small tournament going on that has my attention. Anyway, last week ...
Porto Win Their 23rd Title But Could Be Relegated
By Inara | April 6th, 2008Porto cruised to their third successive title today after beating Estrela Amadora 6-0 at home. Now that's what I call winning with style. Watch Lucho ...
Bookies and Bribery in British Football
By Daryl | April 4th, 2008I'm sure everyone's already seen or heard today's big story by now. If not, then here are the basics: an unnamed footballer accepted a £50,000 ...
FIFA Bans Kenyans for Graft. But Jack Warner's Still Grafting.
By Laurie | January 26th, 2008Do the words "FIFA Corruption Investigation" make anybody else snicker? In a kind of cynical and jaded way? They shouldn't. I know ...
Another Day, Another Corruption Probe
By chris | January 18th, 2008It's been a rough week for the smaller(ish) leagues in Europe. Yesterday it was Poland, bringing down the hammer on the clubs guilty of greasing ...
Ex-President of Corinthians Says: "2005 Was Stolen"
By Bruno Romani | September 25th, 2007Another chapter of the dirtiest period of Corinthians’ history. Alberto Dualib, ex-president of the club who quit last Friday, was caught by the Brazilian Federal ...
President of Corinthians Quits Over MSI Scandal
By Bruno Romani | September 22nd, 2007Â RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - A financial scandal engulfing Corinthians has claimed the jobs of the top Brazilian side's president and vice president. A Brazilian court ...
Corinthians Boots MSI
By Bruno Romani | July 25th, 2007The partnership between Corinthians and MSI is over. The club’s council voted last night for the end of the agreement, besides scheduling a new meeting ...
Maracanã Stores Illegal Beer
By Bruno Romani | May 30th, 2007 The newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reports that employees at the Maracanã found inside the stadium a clandestine storage with 12 thousand cans of beer. ...
Zampa: Paying the Price for Telling it Like it Is
By Martha | April 27th, 2007Remember back in February, when our friend Maurizio Zamparini turned the power of his crazy on the referee designator in advance of his team's match ...
Forward Retires to Serve as a Congressman
By Bruno Romani | April 25th, 2007                                               Before                                               After The forward Róbson, aka RobGol, announced thi
Calciopoli Just Won't Go Away
By Martha | April 13th, 2007I'm not even going to pretend I understand all the permutations of this or the potential biases that lie behind the various reports, but it ...
Palermo Prez Turns Out to be Clairvoyant. Who Knew?
By Martha | February 28th, 2007In an unusual step, Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini started bitching about the referee assigned to his team's match with Milan today -- a man by ...
FIFA Tackles the Serious Issue of Goal Celebrations
By Bob | February 14th, 2007It is about time FIFA stopped wasting its energies on unimportant things. Who cares about fan violence in Italy, Germany, Argentina and elsewhere? ...
Inter = Dirty, Dirty Cheaters!
By Martha | December 4th, 2006You know how Inter came through the whole Calciopoli thing not only unscathed, but with an extra Scudetto in their pockets? And how that seemed ...
Is There Actual Substance to Milan's Conspiracy Theory? And Will That Fact Make Anyone Stop Laughing?
By Martha | November 8th, 2006It's sort of a truism in Italy that even the most utterly outrageous conspiracy theories have a kernel of truth at their cores. (Like, you ...





