Soccer/Football

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/apr/22/anti-bribery-resigns-fifa
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The credibility of the Fifa president Sepp Blatter's much trumpeted "road map to reform" has been dealt a further blow after a prominent international anti-bribery expert resigned in frustration from the independent panel supposed to be overseeing it.

Alexandra Wrage, who has previously criticised Fifa for "neutering" proposals made by the independent governance committee chaired by the Swiss law professor Mark Pieth, said that world football's governing body had proved resistant to change.

"We all focus our efforts where we can have an impact and I was not having an impact at Fifa," she told the Guardian. "It is important the organisation you are dealing with is receptive to those efforts and receptive to change. The independent governance committee put in a tremendous amount of work and effort putting together some fairly uncontroversial recommendations which were then knocked back," said Wrage, who is president of the non-profit international anti-bribery group Trace.

It emerged last month that the FBI were looking into the affairs of Blazer and Warner, who have both denied any wrongdoing.