Tariq Panja
⚽️💰🚓 Co-author Football's Secret Trade| NYT Global Sports Correspondent| ✉️tariq.panja@nytimes.com |tariq.panja@protonmail.com|
- Just awful situation facing colleagues at the Washington Post. Horrible news for many of them. Particularly feel for sports team that has been entirely shuttered, with some people told they were being made redundant while in Milan ahead of the Olympics. Shitty thing to happen.
- All these redundancies days after we learn the Post’s billionaire owner paid $40m for rights to Melania Trump documentary.
- What an incredible young guy! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
- Infantino claims Russia’s global football ban has achieved nothing and should be reversed. But it has, hasn’t it? It is only nation banned from the world’s most-popular sport and that has to sting, it’s a very visible consequence of what’s happened. Reminder fifa largely forced into this ban
- Tone deaf you say
- The Chinese doping scandal is spurring moves towards neutral testing. 💉 👮 Countries Have Long Tested Their Own Athletes for Doping. That Could Soon Change. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/w...
- Interstesting email sent by Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced paedophile, to a man only identified as Jabor Y., a day after the FBI-led raids on the luxury Swiss hotel where FIFA’s top brass were staying. He appears to offer this Jabor chap legal help if needed. #timing
- Reminder that the Baur au Lac raid was an incredible moment in sport, taking out a generation of top FIFA officials in one go. Most of the corruption centered on the sale of TV and sponsorship rights but the DOJ also explicitly said World Cup bids were corrupted.
- Another group that has recently made its way into European football
- Man City board member Marty Edelman also on board a UAE prince’s vehicle used to buy 49 percent stake in Trump Crypto company four days before his inauguration, just one interesting detail in this superb WSJ piece www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reports of empty seats at the premiere of the Melania documentary at the Kennedy Center. But one man just had to be there. Simply could not miss such a momentous evening.
- One of the big potential good news stories of the Olympic Games now at risk of going sour. Lynsey Vonn, in her 40s and after making a remarkable comeback despite a partial knee replacement, airlifted to hospital with injury to other knee after crash in Swiss event. Fingers crossed for her.
