In May 2006, British investigative journalist Andrew Jennings' book, Foul! The secret world of FIFA: bribery, election fraud and ticket scandals (Harper Collins) has sparked protests in the football world by detailing an alleged international cash-for-deal scandal following the collapse of the partner marketing of FIFA, ISL, and revealed how some football officials were encouraged to secretly refund sweeteners they received. The book also alleged that election fraud took place in the fight for SeppBlatter's continued control over FIFA. After the release of Foul! A BBC television briefing by Jennings and BBC producer Roger Corke for the BBC news program Panorama was broadcast. In this one-hour broadcast, screened June 11, 2006, Jennings and the Panorama team agree that SeppBlatter was under investigation by Swiss police for his role in a secret deal to repay more than $1 million of pounds in bribes taken by football officials. All but one of the accounts offered in the Panorama expose were provided by voice, disguised appearance or both; Mel Brennan, former lecturer at Towson University in the United States (and from 2001 to 2003 head of special projects for CONCACAF, liaison to the e-FIFA project and delegate to the FIFA World Cup 2002), became the first high-profile footballer An insider went public with substantial allegations of greed, corruption, inaction and malfeasance on the part of CONCACAF and FIFA leaders. During the Panorama presentation, Brennan – the highest-ranking African American in the history of world football governance – joined Jennings, Trinidadian journalist LisannaLiburd and many others to denounced allegedly inappropriate allocations of money to CONCACAF, and drew links between apparent CONCACAF criminality and others like it. behaviors...... middle of paper ...... accused officials have not responded to questions about his latest allegations, either verbally or by letter. British Prime Minister David Cameron and Andy Anson, head of England's World Cup bid, criticized the timing of the broadcast, three days before FIFA's decision on World Cup host FIFA 2018, on the grounds that it could harm England's bid; among the voters were civil servants indicted by the program [35]. In June 2011, the IOC opened an investigation procedure against the honorary president of FIFA, João Havelange, for corruption. The BBC Panorama program alleged that the Brazilian accepted a $1 million "bung" in 1997 from International Sports Leisure (ISL). The Olympic governing body said "the IOC takes all allegations of corruption very seriously and we will always request that any evidence of misconduct involving an IOC member be referred to our Ethics Commission".