Sports & politics

There are numerous cases in which politics have played a positive part in the history of sports. Like the famous example of the sporting boycott of South Africa during apartheid. But in many more cases politics are misused to force biased disputes between countries. There is a thin line between what’s lawful and what’s simply wrong. FERW aims to spot and prevent the abuse of power in the industry of sports.

Media coverage of FERW’s new proposal on adding football to the Commonwealth Games

The Sunday Express (4 September 2022) covers news of a letter FERW is officially submitting in the next few days. We'll share it here...

10 Lessons from the World Cup

Now that the World Cup is over, we can take a step back and review the event in the round. Here are ten lessons we...

100 Days to World Cup: FIFA Needs to Maintain its Game

Background FERW has been campaigning to ensure workers and staff striving to make the World Cup a success are treated professionally and fairly. After a...

“Les sportifs sont-ils des politiques comme les autres?”

FERW spokesman Dr Lee Rotherham has joined commentators from across Europe as one of the talking heads on ARTE. The topic under discussion was...

Webinar today, 1400-1530 London time

Football Reform:Taking back control of the beautiful gameFriday, 24th February2pm until 3.30pmThe UK government has just published its White Paper on football reform.With financial...

Government should halt sale of Newcastle United to “brutal” Saudi Arabia, says FERW

The Government should halt the sale of Newcastle United to the “brutal” regime that rules Saudi Arabia and encourage the Kingdom to raise human...

FERW Worst Football Awards

FIFA has just run its 2023 annual awards. You can find out more about it at https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/the-best-fifa-football-awards The Best FIFA Football Awards™ have been awarded...

Open letter to the Secretary of State

Before all eyes are drawn towards the World Cup in Qatar, we take the opportunity to here post as an open letter a note...

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