World Cup 2018
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The Russian Football Union has banned a player for three matches for ‘an offensive gesture’ to fans who racially abused him
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The Culture, Media and Sport select committee is to demand that the FA hands over any further information in a secret intelligence dossier
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The SFO were considering applying to Swiss authorities to see the full text of Michael Garcia’s investigation into the 2018 and 2022 World Cups
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The chief executive of Germany’s Bundesliga launched a scathing attack on Fifa, saying coordinated action was needed from Europe to reform world football’s governing body
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Michael Garcia report should be published, says Fifa presidential candidate Jérôme Champagne – video
Fifa presidential candidate says the findings of Michael Garcia's investigation in to the World Cup bidding process need to be made public
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Fifa’s ethics committee said it will broaden the pool of people with access to its full report after calls for full disclosure
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Sepp Blatter has said Fifa will publish the report into England’s 2018 World Cup bid if the FA agree to waive the threat of legal action from anyone involved in it
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Editorial: It is time for criminal prosecutions, boycotts, even to leave Fifa altogether. This must not happen again
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Bonita Mersiades, the Australian whistleblower whose evidence to Fifa’s inquiry was dismissed as unreliable by the judge Hans-Joachim Eckert , has called for reform at world football’s governing body
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The whistleblowers who made allegations about the 2022 World Cup have complained to Fifa saying their anonymity has been compromised
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The FA’s former chairman David Bernstein has urged European nations to boycott the 2018 World Cup unless Fifa undergoes serious reform
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Also featuring: Football’s ‘festering boil’; Sepp’s zero tolerance battle horse; and ‘the biggest gangster on earth’
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Editorial: The Garcia report should be published at once. This Fifa farce is an embarrassment to the world’s favourite game
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Fifa’s ethics investigator has attacked the conclusions reached by Fifa’s judge into his 2018 and 2022 World Cup bid inquiry
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The appeals committee’s mechanisms will begin working after Michael Garcia has complained formally over the treatment of his report into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding processes
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England were criticised for indulging Jack Warner, while concerns were raised about two consultants to Qatar’s bid
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Owen Gibson: England’s bid delegation lacked awareness in trying to woo the subsequently disgraced Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer
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As it happened: England have been castigated by the Fifa report into the bidding process for the next two World Cups and Qatar have been cleared to host in 2022
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James Riach: The decision not to release Fifa’s ethics report in its entirety, and its author’s subsequent criticism of the published summary, leaves more questions than answers
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In today’s Fiver: Fifa is Fifa, Wigan have a change of heart and not-playing-the-position-I-want knack
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Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe, Damian Collins, says report into allegations of bribery is a whitewash
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The lawyer tasked with investigating Fifa’s bidding processes, Michael Garcia, has played a leading role in a number of major corruption and anti-terrorism prosecutions
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David Conn: Corruption, collusion and vote-buying are all identified – and that’s just in a spin-heavy summary of Michael Garcia’s report
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The man who led Russia’s winning bid for the 2018 World Cup has denied obstructing Fifa’s controversial ethics inquiry
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The findings of the report by the Fifa ethics committee’s investigation released on Thursday regarding the conduct of the bids for the 2018-2022 World Cups
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Fifa’s ethics committee judge has not uncovered any evidence that would justify stripping Qatar of the 2022 tournament
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England’s 2018 World Cup bidding team have been castigated by a Fifa report which accuses them of ‘violating bidding rules’
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Fifa’s ethics committee judge will deliver a summary of his protracted investigation into controversial World Cup bidding processes on Thursday
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The Fifa anti-racism adviser Tokyo Sexwale thinks black players could boycott the 2018 World Cup and is urging Russian president Vladimir Putin to demand tougher action against racism in football
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The Fifa disciplinary chairman, Claudio Sulser, says Russia will be punished if their supporters show any form of racist behaviour at the 2018 World Cup in the country
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Claims that a disgraced former Fifa executive used a bugging device at the London 2012 Olympics have led to calls for the SFO to investigate
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Also featuring: the week in racism, a social media pioneer, and why Lovin’ Beats Hatin’
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Fifa has expressed regret after its video launching the logo for the 2018 World Cup showed the disputed Crimean peninsula as part of Russia
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Sepp Blatter thinks the logo for the 2018 World Cup shows the ‘heart and spirit’ of Russia. He might be right but it also looks like a peanut. Can you do better than Fifa?
Sportblog FA’s predictable response to Fifa ethics report has not been good enough