Football

March 5, 2021

A Bane of African Football (Part One) – The Stick

A worrying trend has emerged in African football and despite the name, it is far from normal. Presidents of African Football Associations are not being allowed to complete their terms in office. Instead, they are being removed from office and replaced with appointed Normalisation Committees.

March 5, 2021

A Bane of Football (Part Two) – Acquiescing with Political Interference

The Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) insists that governments are not permitted to interfere in football affairs, especially with FAs. But history tells a very different story. Many, many years ago FIFA failed its first test miserably.

March 5, 2021

A Bane of Football – Political Interference (Part Three) – Blatant

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) shamefully acquiesced with victor’s justice in 1920 by banning the defeated nations in the First World War from Antwerp’s Olympiad. England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland left FIFA in a pique when FIFA rejected their demand to ban Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey from the Olympic Games Football Tournament.

March 5, 2021

African Football – A Changing World (Part 7) FIFA’s Augean Stables

FIFA (the Federation of International Football Associations) became a byword for corruption until the FIFAGate Scandal brought the Ancien Régime of football crashing down. Bizarrely, for a billion-dollar industry FIFA that organisation was established as a not for profit but came to symbolise graft