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Red card for FIFA

US authorities order the arrest of top world football officials - and the Swiss investigate how the next two World Cups were allocated - but FIFA boss Sepp Blatter is re-elected.

Top FIFA officials were arrested in a US corruption probe, while Swiss police opened a separate investigation into what lay behind Russia and Qatar winning the right to host the next two football World Cups. Despite the scandal, the FIFA boss Sepp Blatter still got re-elected. How could this be? Football finance specialist David Conn gives us the low-down. Also in this podcast: how Iran is becoming the Gulf's policeman; the old new broom in Nigeria; why Spain is not (quite) the same as Greece; and fat fights back: the rise of the dadbod.

25 minutes

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  • Sat 30 May 2015 02:05GMT
  • Sat 30 May 2015 10:05GMT
  • Sun 31 May 2015 22:05GMT

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