By Andrew Warshaw
September 14 – Eastern European clubs are far behind their western counterparts when it comes to the way they treat footballers and the underhand methods that go into drawing up contracts, according to the head of the world players’ union FIFPro.
By David Gold
September 14 – The number of players being fielded by the clubs they trained with in Europe has increased for the second year in a row, according to the Annual Review of the European Football Players’ Labour Market.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 14 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter today denied claims he will stand down halfway through his final term to make way for his opposite number at UEFA, Michel Platini.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 14 – The bitter legal dispute between FC Sion and UEFA has taken another remarkable twist with the Swiss club insisting UEFA President Michel Platini should be punished under Swiss law for refusing to reinstate them in the Europa League.
By David Gold
September 13 – Brazil will spend 200 million reais (£74 million/$118 million/85 million) to ensure that all host cities for the 2014 World Cup have access to fast mobile internet connections.
By David Gold
September 13 – Brazil will spend 200 million reais (£74 million/$118 million/85 million) to ensure that all host cities for the 2014 World Cup have access to fast mobile internet connections.
By David Gold
September 13 – South Africa’s women have qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games football tournament for the first time in history after a 1-1 draw with Ethiopia saw them through 4-1 on aggregate.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 13 – FC Sion’s attempt to be reinstated in this season’s Europa League was thrown out by UEFA today as the legal battle between the sporting authorities and the Swiss civil courts intensified.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 13 – Former FIFA vice President Jack Warner has accused football’s world governing body of “devastating” the lives of many officials and “destroying friendships” in their relentless effort to clean up the game.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 13 – The Football Association today defended their anti-doping rules after a television exposé claimed several previously unnamed players had failed out-of-competition tests for recreational drugs.
By Tom Degun in London
September 13 – Shaun Dawson, the chief executive of the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, has told the London Assembly that there is still a possibility Leyton Orient could move to Eton Manor following the conclusion of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 13 – British professional clubs are cutting down on spending and battening down the hatches in anticipation of UEFA’s financial fair play rules according to a new outlook on the game’s financial viability.
By David Gold
September 12 – More players from Spain will participate in this season’s European Champions League than any other, with 81 players, and France close behind on 78, a new survey published today has revealed.
Given how Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the legendary former Germany forward and chair of the European Clubs Association (ECA), had compared Sepp Blatter’s FIFA reign to Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship in Egypt and threatened to bring it to a similar end, there was surprise among the assembled journalists at the President Wilson hotel last week when he seemed to retreat from his battle lines.
Just a month ago, the 95-times capped Germany forward, when asked if Blatter was fit for the job of FIFA President,
By David Gold
September 12 – Vitaly Mutko, the Russian Sports Minister who chairs the Organising Committee for the 2018 World Cup, has revaled that the country is likely to use 13 stadiums rather than the originally planned 16.