By Zach Slaton, Contributor This last week of soccer seemed like one, long exposure of the seamier side of the game about which most would rather not think.  A 19-month investigation into match fixing resulted in a report released on Monday that found 680 suspicious matches across the global game.  Brian Phillips had perhaps the best summary of the report’s possible impact and FIFA’s reactions to it, which can be summarized as “minimal” and “expected but insufficient”.  Sepp Blatter, predictably, reacted as if two of the most important integrity issues facing the game today – racism and match fixing – was an either/or choice and insinuating soccer will solve its match fixing problem through evolution and not specific action.  Thursday brought news from the Premier League that its clubs had agreed in principle to what amounted to a slowing of the growth of the top teams’ payrolls for the next three years.  Football law analyst Daniel Geey provided a quick summary of the deal. …read more
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