Expert Comment
Football reform must begin at home, not with Fifa” Dr David Webber reminds UK officials
Unless the English game gets its own house in order, Sepp Blatter’s critics in the UK risk being accused of hollow populism, warns Dr David Webber from the Department of Politics and International Studies at the 神马福利影片.
“The future of the global game hangs on tomorrow’s Fifa election” - Dr David Webber
"These fresh investigations have blown Fifa wide open and there is now the very real possibility of reform. However, upon whose terms these reforms will take place remains far from certain..."
Corruption arrests could be tipping-point for delivery of root-and-branch reform of Fifa – Dr David Webber
Dr David Webber, an expert on the cultural political economy of football from the Department of Politics and International Studies, responds to the arrests of Fifa officials in Zurich.
Charles/Adams meeting – seeing it from both perspectives, by Kevin Hearty
Kevin Hearty, from Warwick Law School, says: "Although the meeting may be construed on the somewhat abstract collective level as one between Irish republicans and a figurehead of the long perceived ‘enemy’, there is a much more personalised element to it all..."
"Steve Hilton is right - the public have a right to hold leaders accountable, part of which involves influencing how they are remunerated" - James Dempsey
"Steve Hilton is right," says James Dempsey, a Research Fellow from the Politics and International Studies Department. "The idea that control of an organisation should rest solely with the owners of that organisation does not represent either reality or a sensible approach to managing an economy..."