Panorama (1953)

"FIFA's Dirty Secrets," November 29, 2010 Andrew Jennings had spent years digging into football's governing body, and this half-hour put his allegations of bribes and kickbacks among senior FIFA officials in front of a mass audience three days before the vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosts. England's bid team called the BBC unpatriotic for the timing, and nobody can say whether it changed a single vote. What it did was put names and payments on the record on prime-time television, against a powerful institution and a national bid. Watch it as a portrait of a dogged reporter as much as of the officials he pursued.