By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – Sport and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson today called for a complete overhaul of the way World Cup hosts are chosen following the latest spate of corruption allegations to rock FIFA.
By David Gold
May 11 – Japan looks set to withdraw from the Copa America for a second time, with Costa Rica to take their place at the tournament, being held in Argentina this July, according to FOXSports.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – Mohamed Bin Hammam, the challenger to incumbent Sepp Blatter for the FIFA Presidency, has leapt to the defence of Jack Warner over the corruption allegations against the controversial Caribbean powerbroker.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – FIFA vice-president Jack Warner today poured further scorn on sensational allegations that he asked for money to build an education centre in Trinidad in exchange for supporting England’s 2018 World Cup bid.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 10 – Qatar’s 2022 World Cup organisers wasted no time tonight categorically denying explosive reports that it paid bribes to two members of the FIFA Executive Committee to support its bid.
By Mike Rowbottom
May 10 – Former Welsh international footballer Ivor Powell, whose role as the world’s oldest working football coach was recognised in 2006 by the Guinness Book of Records, today unveiled a bronze statue of himself to mark 37 years of service to the University of Bath.
By David Gold
May 10 – France national team coach Laurent Blanc has been cleared by the Government inquiry into the proposal to introduce ethnic quotas restricting the number of players of African and North African origin being trained in French academies.
By David Gold at Westminster
May 10 – Former England 2018 bid chief Lord Triesman reflected that he would have advised the FA not to bid for the World Cup if he knew then what he knew now and defended the British media’s role in uncovering corruption in FIFA.
By David Gold at Westminster in London
May 10 – Mike Lee, an advisor to Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bidding team, accused England’s 2018 World Cup bid of arrogance as he gave evidence at the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.
By David Gold
May 10 – Ahsan Ali Syed has defaulted on a repayment of Racing Santander’s debt to their regional Government, placing his takeover of the club in doubt.
By David Gold at Westminster in London
May 10 – FIFA vice-president and International Olympic Committee member Issa Hayatou has been accused, along with fellow FIFA Executive Committee member Jacques Anouma, of taking a bribe of $1.5 million (£923,000) from Qatar in the bidding process for the 2022 World Cup.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
May 10 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter admitted today he was “shocked” by sensational new allegations of corruption involving no fewer than six of his Executive Committee and promised the world governing body would act once the evidence has been provided.
By David Gold at Westminster in London
May 10 – Lord Triesman told the Parliamentary inquiry into England’s failed bid to win the right to host the 2018 World Cup today that four FIFA Executive Committee members – Jack Warner, Nicolas Leoz, Ricardo Teixeira and Worawi Makudi – asked for bribes during the bidding process.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
May 11 – FIFA’s remit to improve the quality of international football before the next World Cup got off to an inauspicious and embarrassing start when the three most high-profile members of its so-called Task Force 2014 failed to show up here.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 10 – CONCACAF boss Jack Warner insists the organisation has still not made its mind definitely whether to back Sepp Blatter’s re-election at the upcoming FIFA ballot.