The man who privatised
the Olympics

Long version in India’s All Sports magazine

 

Shorter version in Glasgow Herald


The Sniper’s Guide to the Bird’s Nest

 


Meet the International Olympic Committee and their Partners. First published in Germany in the 20th anniversary special edition ‘How we live now!’ of cultural magazine Lettre International. [More]

 

Warning! Readers of a nervous disposition may find some of the illustrations disturbing.


photo of Chinese spy covering his face Chinese spies  lurk behind
 two-way  mirror
 at
 Women's  World Cup

 

 

 


The IOC Ethics Committee has rejected complaints from women footballers harassed by Chinese officials at the Women’s World Cup last year.

Read the stories, view exclusive photos of the harassment and watch amazing video of the spies trying to hide their faces when caught by the women! [More] NEW! Sports Illustrated copies our story!


FIFA misled detectives,
must pay court costs

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FIFA 'misled' detectives on trail of missing £45m

Triesman vows FA will fight clean to win 2018 World Cup bid


As tickets scandals mount, FIFA boss Jack Warner’s son Daryan goes missing

 


Call the police! Daryan Warner has disappeared! If you spot him in the Caribbean please email me and I’ll let his mum and dad know he’s safe.
Daryan’s vanishing act coincides with attempts to question him about claims that scarce tickets for the Trinidad versus England match on June 1 were being touted from his business premises.

 

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Read the questions to Daryan

Read his lawyer’s claim that he can’t be contacted

Jack and Daryan in action

Read FIFA’s ‘Valcke vanishes’ claim


Jack Warner’s secret threat terrorises English Officials


We were tricked that David Beckham and his team played in Trinidad because England hopes sleazy Jack Warner will back their 2018 World Cup bid.
There was another more important, secret agenda: Begging Warner not to expel British officials from FIFA’s life of luxury.
And . . . discover which country is tipped by FIFA insiders to host 2018 – it isn’t England . . . and read the fax that terrifies English officials so much they helped greedy Warner exploit English fans. [More]

Read Warner’s threatening fax

Warner’s sexy shakedown on English fans


FIFA's scandals mount but ethics chief Seb Coe goes missing

FIFA’s congress meets in Sydney this week but absent from the agenda is any comment by President Blatter about the Swiss bribery rackets. Lord Seb Coe has chaired FIFA’s ‘independent’ Ethics committee since September 2006. Many were led to believe he would turn up to reveal how he’s tackling FIFA’s scandals. He’s chosen not to bother. [More]


Meet the mystery man who can end corruption in world football

The face of football in Australia is TV commentator Les Murray. He’s been looking forward to welcoming FIFA’s congress to the Sydney Opera House. But Les will be shocked when he discovers how deep the dark veins of corruption now run in the sport he loves. What’s he going to do? [More]


Has Sepp Blatter’s ‘Special Advisor’ Peter Hargitay committed career suicide?

The English FA hired Hargitay because he persuaded them he was close to Sepp Blatter and skilled at crisis management. But when questions were raised about his murky past, Hargitay created his own crisis with an astonishing testosterone-soaked attack on reporter Andrew Jennings.

Read the article
Read the questions that went to the FA
Read the FA's reply
Read Hargitay's amazing outburst
The 'Curse of Gnome'


The things they say...

‘Neither FIFA nor its President have anything to hide, nor do they wish to.’

Blatter press release, 28 January, 2003


BBC Panorama Reporter Andy Davies:

‘A one million franc bribe … is it not correct that Mr Blatter asked that it be moved to the FIFA official who was named on the payment slip?’

FIFA Director of Communications Markus Siegler:

‘If you do not stop now, then we call the security and we put you out.’

FIFA Press conference, Zurich, Tuesday, 11 April 2006


‘I am deputy chairman of the finance committee of FIFA. I oversee a budget of US$2 billion and I have never seen one iota of corruption.’

Jack Warner, Trinidad Express 12 December 2004


‘Lying and deception and bad faith are standard operating procedure at FIFA.’

Adam C. Silverstein, a lawyer for MasterCard in their successful action against FIFA, New York, December 1, 2006


‘I do not believe a Jew can ever be a referee at that level (Argentine Premier League) because it’s hard work and, you know, Jews don’t like hard work.’

FIFA senior vice-president and chair of Finance Committee, Julio Grondona, 5 July 2003. Buenos Aires


‘FIFA is a healthy, clean and transparent organisation with nothing to hide. There is huge public interest in FIFA, therefore we have to be as transparent as possible. We will try to communicate in a more open way so the world can believe us and be proud of their federation.’

FIFA General Secretary Urs Linsi, January 2003, on fifa.com


'Soccer chief's plan to boost women's game? Hotpants' ‘They could wear tighter shorts. Female players are pretty, if you excuse me for saying so.’

Sepp Blatter, Former President of the World Society of Friends of Suspenders: Sonntagsblick 11 January, 2004


 

Photo of Jean-Marie Weber and FIFA President Sepp BlatterJean-Marie Weber (left), the man who paid the bribes, with FIFA President Sepp Blatter

Blatter & Havelange named
in Swiss bribes trial


The former CEO of the ISL sports marketing company has implicated Sepp Blatter and Joao Havelange in a £70 million bribery scam involving FIFA’s leaders. Read Andrew Jennings’ report from the Zug courthouse – and find out how the bribes were channeled by bagman Jean-Marie Weber to sports officials. [More]


Sepp Blatter, the Ku Klux Klan, Jérôme Valcke, The Mafia, Jack Warner, brothels, a Nazi flag, apartheid sanctions busting, AK-47s . . . and a hanging

 

 

Nazi flag

FIFA vice-president Jack Warner dominates football in the Caribbean and North America, controlling the money, making the rules and choosing officials. Warner’s industrial scale World Cup ticket rackets are legendary and he and his sons Daryan and Daryll have become rich off the back of FIFA grants. Sepp Blatter is happy because Warner delivers 35 valuable votes at FIFA’s Congress.

Coming soon - The Most Evil Man in World Football. Meanwhile, enjoy the Caribbean Conundrum ... and a bonus picture of the guns! [More]


Foul paperback bookcoverRead the world-wide praise lavished on the first edition of FOUL! . . . take a tantalizing glimpse at the contents . . . and enjoy the dramatic first chapter about the panic at FIFA HQ in Zurich when a huge bribe arrived for a top official.FOUL! is published in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Dutch, Korean, Greek, Turkish, Danish, Norwegian, Romanian and Russian. The Chinese authorities, infuriated by some of the disclosures, have banned it.

 

Sepp Blatter asked a Swiss court to impose global ban on FOUL! but ran away when he was invited to slug it out in public – and on oath.

 

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When President Blatter accused General Secretary Valcke of Blackmailing FIFA!

Another story that FIFA doesn't want you to know. Back in 2001 President Sepp Blatter wrote a confidential letter to French businessman Jérôme Valcke accusing him of 'threats' and 'blackmailing.' This summer Blatter appointed Valcke to be FIFA's new General Secretary. What's the background to this amazing appointment?
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Andrew opens new journalism room

 

Andrew Jennings opened the new £300,000 Journlism room at the Chelsea School, Eastbourne, University of Brighton.

 

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'British Sports News Reporting is Abysmal'

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