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Top FIFA officials were arrested in a US corruption probe, while Swiss police opened a separate investigation into what lay behind Russia and Qatar winning the right to host the next two football World Cups. Despite the scandal, the FIFA boss Sepp Blatter still got re-elected. How could this be? Football finance specialist David Conn gives us the low-down. Also in this podcast: how Iran is becoming the Gulf's policeman; the old new broom in Nigeria; why Spain is not (quite) the same as Greece; and fat fights back: the rise of the dadbod.