July 16 – Tonight Norway kick off the quarterfinals of Euro 2025 against Italy, dreaming of a spot in the last four and restoring their glory of old.
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.
By Duncan Mackay in Zurich
June 1 – Sepp Blatter was today officially re-elected here as President of FIFA, extending a controversial reign that began in 1998.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
June 1 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (pictured), head of the European Club Association (ECA) that represents the interests of every major professional club throughout the continent, has called for a complete overhaul of how FIFA is governed.
Brave and courageous where no-one else feared to tread, or foolhardy and ill-timed in the extreme?
I freely admit I have mixed feelings about England’s doomed effort to have the FIFA Presidential election postponed, the latest blow to their global credibility following the 2018 World Cup debacle.
Anyone in their right mind, given the cloud of collective suspicion and skullduggery enveloping FIFA, should applause a genuine attempt to bring about change after the most sordid episode in the organisation’s history.
By Duncan Mackay in Zurich
June 1 – New Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Zhang Jilong today promised a “revolution” to help repair the damage caused by the alleged bribery allegations involving Mohamed Bin Hammam.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
June 1 – An attempt by Arab nations to relax the rules on players switching nationality was thrown out by FIFA today, a blow to countries like 2022 World Cup hosts Qatar to buy up and develop young talent ahead of the next World Cup in Brazil.
By David Gold
June 1 – FIFA has expressed fresh concerns over Brazil’s progress in developing its infrastructure sufficiently in time for the 2014 World Cup.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
June 1 – England’s gamble to try to get FIFA Presidential election called off today failed as expected even though 16 other countries supported the move.
By Duncan Mackay in Zurich
June 1 – Sepp Blatter today announced that FIFA’s 208 member federations will select the host country of the 2026 World Cup rather than the ruling Executive Committee.