The fall-out from the demise of 777 Partners has resulted in a fire sale of assets by A-CAP, and a potential bail-out by Internazionale Milano owners Oaktree.
Ahead of the World Cup, Fifa has signed a prediction market partner. But the company, ADI Predictstreet, which is backed by the Abu Dhabi royal family, has no working product yet, is unlicensed in almost all jurisdictions and is run by a man who last year paid a six-figure sum to settle an accusation of insider trading in India.
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How did a computer science academic and reality TV show contestant from Zagreb end up representing illegal sports-betting operator Z6 when it signed a sponsorship agreement with the Croatia national football team?
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Gaming the system or playing the game: is Morocco a scapegoat of African football’s own making?
By ignoring and even actively worsening the climate crisis, Fifa is failing its mission statement - to make the game global and ensure a sustainable future for the sport.
Saudi Arabia wants a repeat of the Qatar World Cup – little or no accountability over its treatment of migrant workers. The Arab Kingdom is not shy to intimidate unions to get a current complaint at the International Labour Organization (ILO) dropped.
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Newcastle United’s new Asian betting partner 8Xbet almost entirely vanished late in 2024, only to reappear with a mysterious new “owner” shortly afterwards. It is now embroiled in an unprecedented trademark war with a mysterious US company in the UK and elsewhere. What is going on?
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As the UK government considers introducing a blanket ban on advertising for unlicensed bookmakers in football, Newcastle United has become the latest Premier League club to become the partner of mysterious Asian-facing sports betting platform 8Xbet, previously linked with a cyber slavery compound in Cambodia.
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Enough footballers were killed by the Iranian Islamist regime in the space of forty-eight hours in January to make up two full teams. Fifa’s response? Silence.
Correspondence between the Premier League and the British government suggests that, contrary to expectations, elite English football clubs will be allowed to pursue commercial relationships with illegal betting operators in the future.
Illegal betting operators routinely use actors to impersonate their owners and executives, but none of them has ever gone as far in this respect as AC Milan's brand new "official betting partner in Asia" sureWin and its "founder William Anderson".
Josh Wander of 777 Partners has been indicted by the DOJ, but what does this mean for A-CAP, their biggest creditor, which has seized most of their assets, football clubs included, and remains accused of being the “puppeteer” pulling their strings?
