Michael E. Miller, The Washington Post, June 3, 2015
The biggest news story of the year was breaking, but the journalist responsible was fast asleep. Andrew Jennings spent the past 15 years digging into the dirty deals underpinning the world’s most popular game. He is the man who set into motion the investigation into the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), international soccer’s governing body, with a book in 2006, “FOUL! The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote Rigging and Ticket Scandals,” followed by an exposé aired on the BBC’s “Panorama” program that same year, and then another book in 2014, called “Omerta: Sepp Blatter’s FIFA Organised Crime Family.” […read more]