By Paul Nicholson
March 11 – The UEFA Professional Football Strategy Council (PFSC), meeting at UEFA HQ in Nyon yesterday, have slammed the percentage of agent commissions being paid and demanded regulation in the agency marketplace. The PFSC also threatened that if FIFA does not ban third party ownership of players then UEFA will take matters into its own hands.

By Andrew Warshaw
March 11 - As if Brazil's World Cup organisers didn't have enough problems on their plate delivering the infrastructure in time for the June kick-off, the country's president Dilma Rousseff has now come out and expressed her concern about racism in football after a spate of incidents involving players and officials. In comments posted on Twitter, Rousseff lent her support to former Brazil international midfielder Marcos Arouca da Silva, who was subject to monkey chants while playing for Santos against Mogi Mirim last week.

March 11 - As the quarter finals of the CONCACAF Champions League started last night with Costa Rica's Alajuelense drawing 0-0 with Arabe Unido in the first leg of their tie, the confederation also announced MoneyGram as a new commercial partner.

By Andrew Warshaw
March 11 - What was expected to be a celebratory landmark occasion in terms of stadium readiness for the World Cup didn't go completely to plan as another 2014 venue held its first test event.

By Jaroslaw Adamowski
March 11 - The conflict between the management of Zawisza Bydgoszcz and the club's Ultras has escalated into cyberwarfare.

March 11 - English football authorities are considering a blanket ban for all players and officials - including club, league and federation officials in the football business - on betting on matches after yet another Premier League player admitted breaking current rules.

March 11 - Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness said he "deeply regretted" his conduct on the opening day of his high-profile trial for tax evasion.

By Andrew Warshaw
March 10 - The head of the Asian Football Confederation says western criticism of Qatar as World Cup hosts is being overplayed and, in some cases, has "crossed the line."

By Andrew Warshaw
March 10 - FIFA executive committee member Worawi Makudi's controversial re-election as head of Thailand's FA (FAT) is being taken to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Last October after months of in-fighting about election rules, Makudi defeated former national team manager Virach Chanpanich 42-28 in a secret ballot.

March 10 – FIFA has called for expressions of interest in hosting eights of its competitions including the Women's World Club and four editions of the FIFA Club World Cup.

March 10 - In what was viewed as a vital test case in terms of freedom of expression, charges have been dropped against three Tottenham Hotspur fans who were facing prosecution for chanting the word 'Yid' at matches despite almost certainly using the term in a non-derogatory way.

By Andrew Warshaw
March 10 - The tax evasion trial of Bayern Munich President Uli Hoeness gets under way today, the culmination of a scandal that has rocked German football though it has done little to affect the blistering form of the club itself on the field.