Fifa’s “decades-long tradition of bribes, bungs and corruption” has trickled all the way down, infesting both the national and the league levels in European football.
Uruguay striker Luis Suarez has been suspended for four months and nine international matches after biting Italian footballer Giorgio Chiellini during their Group D World Cup match earlier this week.
FIFA has provisionally banned German World Cup winner Franz Beckenbauer from all official football-related activities for 90 days for failing to cooperate with the corruption investigation into the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid.
The former chairman of the Football Association (FA) has accused FIFA of behaving like a “mafia family” amid escalating allegations of corruption in Qatar’s successful bid for the 2022 World Cup.
The police have launched a match-fixing investigation of the upcoming World Cup friendly between Scotland and Nigeria