Probably not. Betteridge’s law of headlines states that, “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” It is named...
FIFA’s president Sepp Blatter has resigned amid a corruption scandal less than a week after he was re-elected by the football governing body. Announcing his resignation,...
US prosecutors have accused nine senior Fifa officials of running a $150 million fraud through a “rampant, systemic and deep-rooted” corruption network to “acquire millions of...
As the World Cup comes to a climactic end, Germany’s victory has been undermined by questions regarding Fifa’s choice to source its products from one of...
Manchester United’s home ground, Old Trafford, has a capacity of 75,731. It’s the fourth largest stadium in Britain, after Wembley, Twickenham and the Olympic Stadium. On...
The international hacker group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a large number of attacks carried out against websites associated with the World Cup – including the...
With the 2014 World Cup kicking off next week, all eyes are on the delicate socio-political situation in Brazil, where the enormous expenditure set aside for...
Conservationists and scientists in Brazil have called on football’s governing body Fifa to put more effort into protecting the Brazilian three-banded armadillo that inspired this summer’s...
Russian energy giant Gazprom and textiles firm Gap have been named as the worst businesses for human rights and environment violations at the annual Public Eye...
With one week to go before voting closes, energy firm Gazprom, football’s governing body Fifa and a trio of pesticide firms are among the frontrunners for...