By Andrew Warshaw
June 4 – FIFA have hired former FBI director Louis Freeh to head the evidence-gathering team looking into claims that Mohamed Bin Hammam and Jack Warner offered $40,000 (£24,000) bribes to Caribbean voters during the recent Presidential campaign.
By David Gold
June 3 – Diego Maradona claims his lawyers will be taking legal action against Julio Grondona, the head of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and FIFA vice-president, for “slander, defamation and discrimination” as the row between the pair escalates.
By David Gold
June 3 – More people in Washington D.C. saw the Champions League final between Barcelona and Manchester United last weekend than anywhere else in the United States, new figures have revealed.
By Tom Degun
June 3 – Mike Lee, the former communications director of London 2012, has written a letter to a Parliamentary inquiry making a series of key recommendations on how the Football Association in England can improve their impoverished international standing in world football.
By David Gold
June 3 – English Championship side Portsmouth has a fourth new owner in just two years after Convers Sports Initiatives, an organisation owned by Russian businessman Vladimir Antonov, was given the green light by the Football League to complete a £17 million ($28 million) takeover.
By David Gold
June 3 – Fox Soccer has agreed a deal with Endemol to show the Dublin Super Cup exclusively in the United States and Canada in the next three years.
By David Gold
June 3 – Luciano Moggi, the former Juventus general manager who was involved in the 2006 Calciopoli match-fixing scandal which rocked Italian football, should be sentenced to five years in jail, according to the public prosecutor.
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The past, in football, is not a foreign country. It is ever present and always points the way to what is going to happen. The FIFA Congress in Zurich was a wonderful illustration of that.
What it showed was that Sepp Blatter uses the football past as if he owns it, and the English Football Association never seem to learn from history.
Sepp Blatter proved the ultimate politician, as he has done so often in the past,
By Andrew Warshaw
June 2 – Jim Boyce, Britain’s new FIFA vice-president, says the English Football Association must start a new tactic of building bridges following the failed attempt to force a postponement of yesterday’s FIFA Presidential election.
An emotional Sepp Blatter’s first task after being re-elected FIFA President by a landslide will be to restore his battered reputation.
Despite his final four-year mandate being a foregone conclusion, Blatter looked genuinely moved as he re-entered the Congress hall clutching a bunch of flowers and hugging members of his family after sweeping to victory with 186 votes.
It was widely anticipated that supporters of Mohamed Bin Hammam, the Asian football chief who was Blatter’s challenger until pulling out of the race on Sunday,
By David Gold
June 2 – 1860 Munich has been saved from insolvency by a Jordanian investor, who has bought 49 per cent of the German side.
By Tom Degun
June 1 – Mike Lee, the former communications director of London 2012 and arch-strategist behind a series of successful World Cup and Olympic bids, has written a letter to the English Football Association on how to improve their impoverished international standing in world football.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
June 1 – The position of FIFA bribery whistleblower Chuck Blazer (pictured) hung the balance today as the new acting boss of his CONCACAF Confederation insisted the burly American had been sacked as general secretary.
By David Gold
June 1 – Olympique Lyonnais have finally been given the all clear to begin the process of building their new stadium, the Stade des Lumiéres, which is to host games during the 2016 European Championships.
By David Gold
June 1 – A Qatari investment company has bought 70 per cent of Ligue 1 outfit Paris St. Germain from the club’s current owners, Colony Capital.