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Exclusive: Recent criticism overshadows our achievements on the pitch, insists Chelsea’s Gourlay

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By Andrew Warshaw at the International Football Arena in Zurich

November 13 – Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay has launched a staunch defence of the club’s image insisting the vilification the European champions have suffered in recent weeks over the racism-fuelled John Terry and Mark Clattenburg cases has unfairly overshadowed what they have achieved on the field and in supporting local communities across the world.

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Rooney Rule could rid English football of racism, insists NFL’s Kirkwood

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By Andrew Warshaw at the International Football Arena conference in Zurich

November 13 – Football can learn several lessons from how the NFL operates in the United States, not least giving more black coaches the opportunity to be interviewed for senior positions, the NFL’s United Kingdom managing director, Alistair Kirkwood, declared today.

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I’ve made mistakes but I’ve learnt from them, claims Blatter

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By Andrew Warshaw at the International Football Arena conference in Zurich

November 12 – Sepp Blatter admitted today that he had made mistakes during his 14-year FIFA Presidency but said he would not have got where he is without taking risks.

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Chelsea to strike groundbreaking new deal with Sauber F1

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By Andrew Warshaw at the International Football Arena conference in Zurich

November 12 – A groundbreaking new sponsorship deal will be announced in the next two months between Chelsea and the Sauber Formula One team, the club’s chief executive Ron Gourlay revealed today.

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NFL’s Kirkwood to speak at International Football Arena

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By Andrew Warshaw

November 7 – Given recent sensitive and unsavoury episodes in English football, Alistair Kirkwood’s address to the forthcoming International Football Arena (IFA) in Zurich on how the round-ball game can learn from American football could not have been better planned.

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Mihir Bose: Schmid on getting more for less, a winter World Cup and managing social media deluges

Last Sunday Marcel Schmid was at Wembley to watch the New England Patriots play the St Louis Rams. Nothing remarkable in that you may think, some 84,000 others were also there as NFL made its annual foray outside its homeland in an effort to reach a worldwide audience.

But for Schmid, chairman of the International Football Arena (IFA), it provided renewed focus for one of the themes that will dominate this year’s conference in Zurich on November 12-13.

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FIFA vice-president Villar Llona says no to goal-line technology

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By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football conference at Stamford Bridge in London

October 12 – The head of FIFA’s Referees Committee says he is completely against goal-line technology – in direct opposition to FIFA President Sepp Blatter’s stance.

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Exclusive: Mutko drops out of running for Russian football boss job

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By David Gold at Russia.Park in Kensington Gardens

July 27 – Vitaly Mutko, the Russian Sports Minister, has ruled himself out of contention to become the new President of the Russian Football Union (RFU).

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Double Olympic rowing champion Williams to join Ipswich Town fitness staff

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By Mike Rowbottom

July 6 – Steve Williams, the double Olympic rowing gold medallist, will be helping to improve the fitness of Ipswich Town players next season as they push for a place in the English Premier League.

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Joy for FIFA Prince and Muslim women as football hijab ban is lifted

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By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich

July 5 – Muslim women were given a “100 per cent guarantee” by the game’s lawmakers today that they are now free to wear the hijab at senior competitive level.

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Havelange “seriously ill” again in intensive care

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By Duncan Mackay

April 10 – Former FIFA President Joao Havelange is back in intensive care suffering from heart and breathing problems, with doctors describing his condition as “serious”.

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Havelange “seriously ill” in Rio de Janeiro hospital

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By Duncan Mackay

March 20 – Former FIFA President João Havelange is seriously ill while undergoing treatment for an infection, a Brazilian hospital has announced.

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English league giants Arsenal and Man City to play high profile friendly in China

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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.

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Ban on women footballers wearing hijab to be lifted

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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.

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Goalline technology could be in place by end of 2012 after historic decision

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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.