Hungary – Declan Hill – Investigative Journalist & Academic

21NovNovember 21, 2025

The Sporting Plague: No One Will Speak About

Capitol Hill, Washington DC - The Launch of Family and Friends of Gamblers Capitol Hill, Washington DC. The major announcement of a new group in the fight for proper regulation of gambling. Senator Richard Blumenthal, Representative Paul Tonko, hosted the event. I spoke about the widespread sports gambling addiction among athletes. Below - the text of my speech: ** It is a silent plague. A disease that-none-dare-mention-its-name is hitting American athletes. Gambling addiction is sweeping our athletes from the very top leagues down to high school students. Over...

2 Farces, Turkish Nightmare & Infantino’s Blatter-Lite FIFA

It was not a good week for sport. The Turkish nightmare continues. There are strange doings, as usual, in Singapore and Qatar. However, the big story is that Gianni Infantino's FIFA has now become a Blatter-Lite FIFA: the same organisation, only with better table manners for the media. The key issue is the resignation of Domenico Scala as the Head of the Audit and Compliance Committee. He quit FIFA as Infantino pushed through a measure that would have allowed the FIFA Executive...

The ‘Sports’ Farce in Washington

To my American colleagues who went to the seminar on ‘sports integrity’ at the National Press Club on June 24th, You saw a presentation by a man with little credibility in sports integrity and two other men who have failed. You attended a presentation sponsored by the Qatari sports establishment. This is a group that is suspected by sports fans around the world of corruption in securing the rights to the World Cup tournament of 2022. This is a group that Amnesty...