When you are the visiting team in Beirut, you know your night did not go well when some of the local citizens let off a few rounds of celebratory gunfire after the score goes final. It probably also was not a good night when your coach is fired about 90 minutes after the game. Which […]

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I don’t know how much attention Mohamed bin Hammam got in the United States. His run against Sepp Blatter for the Fifa presidency was a big deal in much of the soccer world, and particularly here in the Gulf, where the idea of a Qatari as boss of Fifa planet was a major news story. […]

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After another day of Fifa madness, including the Jerome Valcke e-mail (Qatar “bought” the 2022 World Cup), a Sepp Blatter press conference at which he barely kept control over surly and mocking journalists … and Sepp’s assertion that “Fifa is not in a crisis” … Well, any reasonable observer would have to say that he/she […]

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I suppose that is not nearly specific enough, as a headline. First question is, “Which scandal?” In this case … talking about today’s. What happened? Fifa has suspended two of its six continental federation chairmen (and executive committee members) as the ethics committee prepares for a full investigation into charges of bribery … and one […]

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Blow. Up. Fifa.

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