Keir Radnedge is the author of 33 sports books, encyclopaedias, biographies, statistics, quizzes etc.; Film/video/dvd scripts from the World Cup to Maradona to other main issues. He is also a broadcaster, carrying out analysis on TV (BBC, CNN, Sky, Al-Jazeera etc.). He has appeared worldwide on the radio, sports websites, magazines and in national/daily newspapers. He is also a conference moderator, operates a sponsor consultancy, publication aggregation and more… He is also Chairman of the Football Commission of AIPS, the international sports journalists' association.
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Organisers of the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London have appointed an independent board to take responsibility for operating the event. Last week, London 2017 managing director Sally Bolton stepped down just days after deputy chair Heather Hancock and audit committee chair Martin Stewart resigned from the board, with...
South American tax chiefs have suggested that football in the continent has been governed by a criminal cartel rather than a sports organisation writes KEIR RADNEDGE. Senior officials from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru met in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to share information and adopt a common front about...
The Jordanian Royal Court has stepped into the increasing-fevered FIFA presidency campaign by denouncing attempts to promote false information about the bid by Prince Ali bin Al Hussein to succeed banned and disgraced Sepp Blatter. In a statement reported in the Jordanian media, the Royal Court said rumours that...
Sepp Blatter always envisaged leaving FIFA through the grand front door, cheered to the rafters and smiling at his obsequious and grateful loyal servants while clenching his fists high in both appreciation and acknowledgement. By contrast, it was silently and through a back door that he slipped out of...
The organising committee for the London 2017 World Athletics Championships has been rocked by a third resignation in under a week after Managing Director Sally Bolton became the latest member to step down. The flagship event of the crisis-stricken International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will be staged in London...
GEORGE TOWN: Millionaire businessman Canover Watson has been jailed for seven years for conspiring with disgraced former FIFA Vice-President Jeffrey Webb to “steal money from the Cayman Islands government”. Watson was treasurer of the Cayman Islands Football Association (CIFA) while Webb was President and was also a member of the powerful...
GEORGE TOWN: The Cayman Islands Sports Minister, Osbourne Bodden, has demanded an inquiry and reforms into the local football association which was once the fiefdom of Jeffrey Webb, the disgraced former FIFA vice-president. Webb was being touted by friends and associates as a possible next FIFA president and was...
NEW YORK: Alfredo Hawit, the latest FIFA Vice President to wind up in court in the United States, has denied corruption charges in the FIFAGate investigation. Hawit, 64, had been interim leader of the central and north American confederation CONCACAF until his suspension by FIFA after being detained last month in...
All 10 Presidents of the South American football federations picked up at least US$20,000 a month – and, in many cases, much more – in return for merely having signed off on ‘appropriate’ marketing and TV contracts. That damning revelation into the endemic corruption within the leadership of CONMEBOL has...
Venezuela football supremo Rafael Esquivel has lost his appeal to be released to house arrest while contesting extradition from Switzerland to the United States writes Keir Radnedge. Lawyers for Esquivel, a Vice President of South American confederation CONMEBOL when arrested in Zurich last May 27, had argued that he should be...
