Egypt is in shock after yet another act of violence on Thursday, this time deaths in a football stadium. But was this a spontaneous act of football hooliganism, or an organised criminal conspiracy
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Inside Story – Is Egypt’s football tragedy a conspiracy?
Former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam has been banned from football for life. The sport’s governing body’s ethics committee found him guilty of attempted bribery. But Bin Hammam says he will appeal the decision.
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Bin Hammam to appeal against FIFA life ban
Is Sepp Blatter really the man to rebuild FIFA’s tainted image? Or does the multi-million dollar corporation need an entire overhaul? Inside Story, with presenter Jane Dutton, discusses with Mehrdad Masoudi, producer for the football show ‘Futbol Mundial’, and former media press officer for the FIFA world cup in 1998; David Owen, chief columnist for www.insideworldfootball.biz, a website dedicated to football business and politics; and Grant Wall, senior writer at Sports Illustratrated.
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Inside Story: FIFA’s red card
Inside Story asks what motivated the footballing body to choose Russia and Qatar to host the World Cup finals.
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Inside Story – What was Fifa thinking?
Access to a football pitch is something many take for granted. But sporting facilities are a luxury for thousands of Palestinians living in Syria. Al Jazeera’s Andy Richardson travelled to the Yarmouk refugee camp at the outskirts of Damascus, to see one project that is making a difference.
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Football joy for Palestinian refugees
Can empirical data unravel the mysteries of football as well as explain some of its familiar patterns?
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Riz Khan – The science of football
Gaza witnesses the first official match in three years after a political agreement between Hamas and Fatah .
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