FA make key new appointment

March 18 – The Football Association have appointed Julian Eccles (pictured) as Group Director of Marketing and Communications, it was confirmed today.
March 18 – The Football Association have appointed Julian Eccles (pictured) as Group Director of Marketing and Communications, it was confirmed today.
March 18 – Gordon Smith, the chief executive of the Scottish Football Association (SFA), is to warn the British Government that if they force them to sell their international matches to a free-to-air television channel then it will cost them nearly £30 million in lost revenue.
By David Owen
March 17 - Sebastian Coe (pictured) has been replaced as chairman of FIFA’s Ethics Committee.
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 3 – Celtic and Rangers face expulsion from the Scottish Premier League (SPL) if they dare try to negotiate their own television deals, warns SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster (pictured).
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 3 – Don Garber (pictured), the Commissioner of the Major League Soccer (MLS), says football in his country has come on leaps and bounds but still has a long way to go to match the established sports in the United States.
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 3 – Former UEFA general secretary David Taylor (pictured) has attacked football’s spiralling debt and says measures must be implemented to stop the situation getting out of control.
February 21 – FIFA claimed today that they are concerned about players using undetectable stimulants derived from traditional African medicines that are not banned.
By David Owen
February 16 – Dr Chung Mong-Joon (pictured), a South Korean member of FIFA’s ruling Executive Committee and honorary President of his country’s football association, has made a $500,000 (£318,000) donation to Haiti.
February 6 – Sunil Gulati (pictured) has been unanimously re-elected to a second four-year term as president of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF).
February 5 – FC Moscow has pulled out of the Russian league a month before the start of the 2010 season because of financial problems sparked by failures to secure sponsorship.
February 3 – The new president of the Russian Football Union (RFU) will be elected in Moscow today in a vote that will decide the future of national team coach Guus Hiddink (pictured).
By Andrew Warshaw
January 29 - UEFA’s general secretary Gianni Infantino (pictured) has painted a grim picture of the state of European football, revealing that 50 per cent of the biggest clubs are losing money.
By David Owen
January 25 – Two Asian football heavyweights are said to have drawn a line under their differences, in a move that could have profound consequences for the leadership of the world’s biggest sport.
By Duncan Mackay
January 21 - Juventus have appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against two-month bans handed out to two club doctors after they allegedly gave a banned substance to Fabio Cannavaro (pictured), Italy’s captain, a case which has put the club’s past record on distributing performance-enhancing drugs under the spotlight.
January 19 – Plans for a permanent £100 million training base for the England team – renamed St George’s Park – were unveiled by the Football Association today.