By David Gold
March 5 – Premier League rivals Arsenal and Manchester City will play a high profile friendly in China’s Olympic Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing on July 27, the day of the start of the Olympic Games in London.
By Andrew Warshaw in Baghsot
March 3 – The ultra-conservative International Football Association Board (IFAB), comprising FIFA and the four British Home Associations, rarely if ever reverses its decisions but made an exception by unanimously agreeing to lift the ban on the Islamic headscarf being worn by female footballers, pending health and safety checks.
By Andrew Warshaw in Bagshot
March 3 – After years of foot-dragging, goalline technology moved a vital step forward today, with FIFA even suggesting it could be introduced before the end of this year.
By David Gold
February 25 – Sports management moguls IMG will no longer represent professional footballers, including Manchester City and Argentinian striker Sergio Agüero (pictured), after deciding the business does not represent value for money.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 16 – Funds donated for the Haiti earthquake fund, but which never arrived, were paid into a bank account controlled by former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner (pictured), according to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF).
By David Gold
February 16 – Former World Cup referee Lu Jun has been sentenced to a five-and-a-half year jail term for involvement in match-fixing in China.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 12 – FIFA is withholding the annual pension of its former vice-president Jack Warner (pictured) following last year’s cash-for-votes scandal, according to reports in his native Trinidad.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 12 – Controversial African powerbroker Issa Hayatou (pictured) has been handed a vote of confidence to remain as President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) despite being recently reprimanded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over corruption allegations.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 23 – Former FIFA Presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam’s campaign to stop the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) from replacing him as its leader was heard by sport’s highest court today.
By Duncan Mackay
January 13 – FIFA tonight found itself at the centre of more astonishing allegations from former vice-president Jack Warner over the decision to award him World Cup television rights for as little as $1 (£0.65/€0.77), including the Trinidadian claiming he had written evidence that they were given to him in return for votes for Sepp Blatter in his election campaigns.
By Andrew Warshaw in London
January 13 – FIFA’s newest vice-president, Prince Ali bin Hussein of Jordan, has fiercely defended his controversial proposal to allow female Muslim footballers to wear the hijab during matches, claiming he has the support of many European experts.
By Duncan Mackay
January 5 – Sepp Blatter has again come under fire from a senior figure at Bayern Munich, this time from Uli Hoeness, the German club’s President.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 3 – The build up to the eagerly awaited decision in March whether, finally, to introduce goal-line technology is gathering pace with UEFA President Michel Platini, its fiercest high-profile opponent, again rubbishing the idea.
By Andrew Warshaw
December 30 – British MP Damian Collins has renewed his call for a thorough investigation into Sepp Blatter’s own conduct following startling new allegations made by the FIFA President’s former right-hand man and senior vice-president, Jack Warner.
By David Gold
December 26 – Former CONCACAF chief Jack Warner has launched a new attack on Sepp Blatter, in which he accuses the FIFA President of “megalomania, covert racism and discrimination”.