By Andrew Warshaw
September 17 – Has Germany made an unwanted tactical mistake in its bid to win next week’s vote for Euro 2024 when it goes head to head with Turkey?
September 17 -A member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot who was one those who staged a pitch invasion during the World Cup final, has reportedly flown to into Berlin to receive medical treatment.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 14 – Transparency, transparency, transparency. The word crops up time and time again whenever German officials discuss their bid to stage the 2024 European Championship.
September 14 – Italian Serie A club Chievo have been deducted three points and fined €200,000 by the Italian Football Association (FIGC) for false accounting, leaving them on minus two.
September 13 – UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has been quick to dismiss suggestions that the Champions League final could be held outside Europe in 2021.
September 13 – French World Cup-winning captain Hugo Lloris has been fined £50,000 and banned from driving for 20 months.
September 12 – A week after reports that UEFA were considering re-introducing a third European club competition to run alongside the Champions league and Europa League, the clubs appear to have stolen the organisation’s thunder by confirming it will take place.
January 12 – A leading marketing executive has raised eyebrows across Europe by suggesting discussions are taking place privately to see whether staging the Champions League final in New York might be feasible.
September 12 – The Scottish Football Association (SFA) has agreed a deal to buy Hampden Park for £5 million from League Two side Queen’s Park when the existing lease of Hampden expires in summer 2020.
September 11 – Landmark proposals to play a top-flight Spanish league game in the USA has taken another twist with reports that the players will have the final say.
September 11 – Mike Lee, former UEFA head of communications and widely regarded as one of the gurus of British sports public relations, has died suddenly of a heart attack aged 61.
September 11 – UEFA has lifted its threat to ban Olympique de Marseille from European competition if there is a repeat of the violence which marred their Europa League campaign last season.
By David Owen
September 10 – The race to become the unlikeliest ever qualifier for the European Championship finals is on, with Georgia, FYR Macedonia, Belarus and the Faroe Islands having established an early advantage.
September 10 – Danish international Nicklas Bendtner has been reported to police by a Copenhagen taxi driver who claims he was behind a violent attack on Sunday morning and had to undergo surgery for a broken jaw.
September 7 – Football entered a new international era as the Nations League kicked off on Thursday across Europe, almost outlawing friendlies, and incentivising the international game again. In the pick of the games world champions France were held to a scoreless draw in Munich against 2018 World Cup winners.