Fans Deserve Fair Play in Major Sports, Not Cheating and Corruption

In sport governance, whom do we trust? Are the current crop of sport governors and sport managers capable, skilled and equipped well enough to combat the forces that seek to illegally exploit the exploding profit potential of sport? How do we prepare, train and educate the future managers of sport? Can the primal spirit of sport be maintained and its integrity kept safe? A global compact between the leading international sport federations on what should be the basic business principles that underpin and regulate the trade in sport is required. A coalition of sport governing bodies, government, international authorities, business, academia and civil society was announced earlier last month in the Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA).