By Andrew Warshaw
October 17 – The English Football Association (FA) has reported its Serbian counterparts to UEFA after worrying scenes marred the 2013 Under-21 European Championship playoff fixture between the sides last night.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 16 – The World Cup qualifier between Poland and England was dramatically called off tonight and rescheduled for 5pm local time tomorrow following unrelenting rain that made the £400 million ($646 million/€493 million) national stadium in Warsaw unplayable.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 16 – Egypt’s football association has delayed the rest of the domestic season indefinitely, saying it has not been given sufficient security guarantees by the Government in the wake of the Port Said tragedy.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 16 – Former FIFA Presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam has lodged a fresh appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the latest episode of the long-running saga to clear his name.
By Tom Degun
October 16 – Domenico Scala, the chairman of the FIFA Audit and Compliance Committee, believes the reforms his team are making to football’s world governing body are helping to make it more clear and transparent.
By Tom Degun
October 16 – Manchester United, one of the most popular and successful sports teams in the world, have announced a new three-year partnership with Azerbaijan’s leading telecommunications company Bakcell.
By Tom Degun
October 15 – Italian giants AC Milan have been forced to deny reports that they plan to sell stakes in the club to the Qatar sovereign wealth fund as speculation continues to grow over Silvio Berlusconi’s ownership of the club.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 15 – Three Cuban footballers who vanished just before a World Cup qualifying match against Canada have defected, FIFA has confirmed.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 15 – The Canadian Government has waded into the dispute over the country’s women’s team skipper Christine Sinclair after she was banned by FIFA for unsporting behaviour.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 12 – An independent inquiry into police wrongdoing is to be carried out following the recently released report that highlighted a shocking cover-up relating to the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football conference at Stamford Bridge in London
October 12 – Major League Soccer (MLS) Commissioner Don Garber says he disapproves of loaning players to European clubs in the off-season as he tries to enhance the credibility of the game in the United States.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 12 – Disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, who resigned from football in the wake of last year’s cash-for-votes scandal but is still a prominent politician in his native Trinidad and Tobago as National Security Minister, is once again under the spotlight – this time for allegedly exploiting his country’s own federation.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 12 – FIFA Executive Committee vice-president Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan is pushing for a revolutionary corruption ranking system among FIFA members to make them more accountable when it comes to match-fixing and illegal betting.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 11 – Jeffrey Webb, President of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), was forced to pull out of the Leaders in Football conference in London when he fell ill on his transatlantic flight.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football conference at Stamford Bridge in London
October 11 – Singapore is using lie detector tests to try to cut down on match-fixing, according to the head of the country’s football federation.