Blatter & Havelange named in Swiss Bribes trial
The former CEO of the ISL sports marketing company has implicated Sepp Blatter and João Havelange in a £70 million bribery scam involving FIFA's leaders. Read Andrew Jennings' report from the Zug courthouse.
Has Sepp Blatter’s ‘Special Advisor’ Peter Hargitay committed career suicide?
The FA claim they hired Hargitay for his closeness to Sepp Blatter and his skills 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.
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At Last! A Special Prosecutor reveals the bribes paid to FIFA officials
Seven years of judicial investigations are over. The lawyers and defendants are on their way to the courthouse in Zug, Switzerland. Andrew Jennings sets the scene for the most explosive criminal trial in FIFA’s history.
And an exclusive picture of Sepp Blatter with the man who delivered the kickbacks in return for lucrative contracts.
Sepp Blatter, the Ku Klux Klan, Jérôme Valcke, the Mafia, Jack Warner, brothels, a Nazi flag, apartheid sanctions busting, AK-47s . . . and a hanging
Another everyday story in the secret world of FIFA... and a bonus picture of the guns! Read more...
How Warner and Blatter protect their loyalists
FIFA vice-president Jack Warner doesn't forgive dissidents in his Caribbean football dictatorship. And Sepp Blatter backs him all the way. Read about Warner's vindictive and unfair treatment of the honest officials of Antigua & Barbuda. Will they be thrown out of world football?
Is the English FA hiding a mucky secret?
In November 2007 the English FA announced it had "appointed european consultancy network Ltd, (ecn) - headed by Peter J Hargitay, Special Advisor to the FIFA President Sepp Blatter since 2002, and Markus Siegler, FIFA's former Communications Director" to advise on England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. But neither Hargitay nor the FA will reveal where the money is going...
Why Blatter and Jérôme Valcke can never trust each other
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 Jennings wins sports journalism's most prestigious award
The Football Supporters' Federation Football Writer of the Year award has been won by Andrew Jennings "for his superbly thorough and professional exposé of corruption and power-broking at FIFA, in his book FOUL!"
Says Andrew: "I've won a lot of awards over the years but this is the best ever. I dedicated FOUL! to the fans because they get ripped off by FIFA. It's heart-warming to have their praise and recognition. And thanks to all the fans who emailed me to say how much they enjoyed the style of the book. It was bloody hard work!"
"FIFA & Coe" on BBC-1
On October 22, 2007, Andrew Jennings again presented BBC TV's flagship programme Panorama, reporting the problems facing England and other countries bidding to host the 2018 World Cup. The programme examined corruption allegations against some of the 24 members of FIFA's Executive Committee who will award the 2018 tournament.
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It's about their fabulous lifestyle of cash-rich secret expense accounts in Zurich, private jets and selfish carbon emissions, the luxury of the world's top hotels and restaurants. The men who never have to put their hands in their own pockets. And their million-dollar World Cup ticket rackets, ripping off the fans.
OFFICIAL: Investigations by Swiss detectives continue into the kickbacks paid to senior FIFA officials
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In the stores and online ...the updated paperback edition with exclusive new material on bribery and ticket rackets.
Read the world-wide praise lavished on the first edition ... 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.
Andrew Jennings presented two BBC Panorama documentaries in 2006 about FIFA corruption.
Andrew Jennings revealed earlier...
FIFA have buried confidential reports revealing that vice-president Jack Warner sold thousands of World Cup tickets at immense profits.
Read his exclusive disclosures in the London Daily Mail and download the reports from:
Ernst and Young to FIFA on April 11, 2006
Further report from:
Ernst and Young to FIFA on July 8, 2006
Confidential minutes of: