How to fix football

Blame the Internet for football’s ever-widening match-fixing problems. So do you ban online betting or better regulate it? François Picard’s panel suggests cutting out spot betting and stiffer sentences for footballers caught in the act of taking bribes.

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By Anelise Borges

Declan HILL. Investigative journalist. Author, "The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime" (from Toronto);
Andreas EVAGORA. Deputy Head of News, Eurosport;
Michel KOUTOUZIS. Criminologist. Consultant for the UN and EU institutions;
Mark OWEN. France 24.

Produced by François Picard, Anelise Borges, Mary Colombel, Christopher Davis.

Watch the second part here.

Presenter

François Picard

02/05/2013 - THE DEBATE

Germany envy

The just rewards of a virtuous model and a talented generation, or is an unprecedented all-German UEFA Champions League final the future of a Europe where new "financial fair play" rules suit the Bundesliga better than its rivals? François Picard’s panel looks at Germany’s winning football model.

01/05/2013 - THE DEBATE

May Day! Hollande's policies split French left (part 2)

Voters on the left rue the French government's first loosening of the labor law in decades. François Picard's panel wonders if under the guise of the Socialist label, a quiet revolution might be afoot in the French workplace?

01/05/2013 - THE DEBATE

May Day! Hollande's policies split French left

Voters on the left rue the French government's first loosening of labour law in decades. François Picard's panel wonders if under the guise of the Socialist label, a quiet revolution might be afoot in the French workplace.

30/04/2013 - THE DEBATE

Karzai's CIA cash (part 2)

Bags of cash delivered monthly to the Afghan National Security Council offered a quick-fix solution in a nation steeped in a tradition of patronage, but François Picard's panel worries that CIA payments may ultimately undermine US efforts to pull out of a stable Afghanistan.