By Duncan Mackay
January 13 – Australia will attend the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Congress in Luanda to promote its bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, even though they are upset about being unable to give a presentation after rivals Qatar stepped in to sponsor the event.
By Duncan Mackay
January 12 – Nottingham’s plans to build a new stadium in time to host matches if England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup is successful took an important step forward tonight when councillors proposed Gamston and Clifton for development, even though they claimed did not want to.
January 12 – Liverpool are already seeking a sponsor for their new stadium, which is due to start being built in April, the Premier League club’s commercial director has revealed.
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By Duncan Mackay
January 12 – The United States today announced the 18 cities that could host matches if the country’s bid to host the World Cup in either 2018 or 2022 is successful.
January 12 - Closing the National Football Museum in Preston could damage England’s World Cup bid for 2018, it has been claimed.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 12 – Leicester City chairman Milan Mandaric (pictured with Harry Redknapp) has been charged with tax evasion while he held the same role at Portsmouth, the latest blow to the fortunes of the ailing English Premier League club.
By Duncan Mackay
January 12 – The standard of Qatar’s facilities have received a ringing endorsement after Premier League champions Manchester United, including Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand (pictured), flew to Doha for a four-day training trip to avoid the snowy weather in England that has wreaked such havoc.
Terrorist attacks, like the one on the Togo team in Cabinda, always raise more questions than answers.
For me the most important question is one the administrators of football and sport in general must answer: what part did they play in this tragedy and what can they do to make sure it never happens again?
By Duncan Mackay
January 11 – Russia tonight announced BDO, part of the world’s fifth-large global network of independent auditors and a company which worked on Sochi’s successful campaign to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, as a supporter of their bid to host the 2018-2022 World Cup.
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January 11 – Liverpool director Tom Hicks Junior (pictured) has resigned from his position with the club and their parent company Kop Holdings in the wake of a foul-mouthed e-mail rant at a fan.
By Duncan Mackay
January 10 – Togo’s team flew home from the African Cup of Nations tonight after the deadly ambush of their team bus but the country’s Sports Minister said they hoped to return to Angola, where the tournament got off to a spectacular start as Mali came from 4-0 with 11 minutes remaining against the hosts to draw 4-4.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 10 – The debate over Liverpool’s controversial decision to postpone today’s Premier league fixture with Tottenham Hotspur has been further fuelled by the Anfield club openly advertising official tours of the stadium for the very same day.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 10 – England’s 2018 bid team had prepared a fresh presentation to be delivered to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Angola later this month but were denied the opportunity after Qatar signed an exclusive sponsorship deal, insideworldfootball has learned.
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By Duncan Mackay
January 10 – Togo’s players will not play in the Africa Cup of Nation in Angola after the country’s Government ordered them home following a deadly attack on the team bus, although players had claimed they wanted to stay and play.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 10 – Danny Jordaan (pictured), chief executive of this year’s World Cup, insists no link should be drawn between the terrorist attack on the Togo team at the African Nations Cup in Angola and the tournament in South Africa.