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Soccer: The beautiful game or just the dirty game?
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A Europol report last week claimed that 380 soccer games in Europe and 680 worldwide were ‘suspicious’. Match-fixing has tainted the world’s most popular sport, drawn in major crime gangs, and ruined players’ lives, writes Sheila Norman-Culp

Thu, 14 Feb, 2013

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FIFA’s clean-up drive could see three senior football officials named as having received kickbacks from a company that sold World Cup TV rights.

Fri, 21 Oct, 2011

Platini hopes Blatter chooses change

Sepp Blatter will today unveil his plans for FIFA reforms – with UEFA president Michel Platini urging him to keep his promises to implement change.

Fri, 21 Oct, 2011

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Thu, 15 Sep, 2005

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IRISHMAN Pat McQuaid is confident any inquiry into his relationship with the International Cycling Union (UCI) will clear all parties of wrong-doing.

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