By Andrew Warshaw
June 6 – Too many footballers are putting their careers at risk by taking painkillers to push them through the pain barrier, according to FIFA’s chief medical officer.
By David Gold
June 6 – Russia’s public broadcaster VGTRK has reportedly made a $110 million (£71 million/€88 million) bid to show Russian Premier League football for the next three years.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 6 – The Kenya Football Federation (KFF) has turned to one of Africa’s best-known football journalists to help promote and market them overseas.
By David Gold
June 6 – Triple World Player of the Year Lionel Messi has been named the most productive player in Europe’s top five leagues by the International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) Football Observatory.
By David Gold
June 5 – Lazio captain Stefano Mauri has been released from jail as the investigation into match fixing in Italy continues.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 5 – South Africa’s notorious impatience with national coaches has snared yet another victim after Pitso Mosimane was fired today following the country’s disappointing start to the 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign – he will be succeeded by Steve Komphela.
By David Gold
June 4 – Former double World Player of the Year Ronaldinho is suing Flamengo, whom he left last week after winning a court appeal to have his contract terminated.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 3 – Disgraced former FIFA powerbroker Jack Warner’s fierce denial that he had anything to do with secretly owning a Centre of Excellence in his native Trinidad and Tobago that was supposed to belong to entirely to CONCACAF has been exploded by the local media in Port of Spain.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 2 – Just days after banning a raft of Turkish clubs from Europe for financial irregularities, UEFA has now come down hard on Greek football, kicking AEK Athens out of next season’s Europa League.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 1 – Trinidad and Tobago’s chief prosecutor says further investigations may be needed into how around $1 million (£652,000/€811,000) was brought into the country and paid to Caribbean football officials in last year’s cash-for-votes bribery scandal.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 1 – FIFA appear to have backtracked slightly over the precise conditions of allowing the Balkan province of Kosovo to play friendly matches.
By David Gold
May 31 – Turkish outfits Beşiktaş and Bursaspor have been suspended from European competitions for a year by UEFA due to financial difficulties.
By David Gold
May 31 – Spanish Sports Minister José Ignacio Wert has said that Barcelona and Real Madrid are open to agreeing a more balanced television rights agreement with fellow La Liga teams.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 31 – The capital Brasília will stage only one match at next year’s Confederations Cup in Brazil – the traditional dry run for the World Cup 12 months later.
By David Gold
May 30 – Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti has suggested that football be suspended in the country for as long as three years as a result of the latest match-fixing investigation.