Maintenance in progress

while the world cup commands global attention, the machinery beneath the games is being pulled apart: the council of europe formally rebuked fifa over its partnership with a prediction-market betting firm, turkish authorities summoned 17 football clubs in a match-fixing and illegal betting probe, and a franchise co-owner in sri lanka's cricket league was arrested for a fixing attempt on the tournament's eve. three separate integrity failures surfacing across three countries in one week, all tied to betting money, suggests the spectacle's financial underside is moving faster than its oversight.

european and south asian sports governance reporting