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Mihir Bose: Fans should treat new owners with extreme caution

It is part of the change that has come over football that, as the new season starts, the fans must not only look out for the new players who have walked into the clubs’ changing rooms but the new owners who may now own their clubs’ boardrooms.

In the last few weeks, the football news has been as dominated by the transfers of club ownership as much as player transfers. Or more accurately stories of possible sales of clubs with Liverpool,

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Nottingham World Cup stadium set to be moved

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

August 13 – Nottingham’s proposed controversial new stadium to host World Cup matches if England’s bid to host 2018 is successful is set to be moved from its original location, it has been reported.

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Moscow included in FIFA inspection visit itinerary

Luzhniki Stadium

By Andrew Warshaw

August 12 – Russia’s 2018 World Cup bid team has delivered the broadest hint yet that the FIFA inspection team about to visit the country will be able to include Moscow in their itinerary.

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Exclusive: World Cup windfall for Liverpool

By David Owen

August 13 – Liverpool are set to enjoy an unexpected financial windfall from the World Cup in South Africa, thanks to the presence at the tournament of players like Fernando Torres (pictured), an insidetworldfootball survey can exclusively reveal.

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David Owen: Liverpool win the World Cup – sort of

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These are tense times to be a supporter of Liverpool Football Club.

But into every life a little sunshine must pour and, after spending two days number-crunching, I think I am in a position to announce a small piece of good news for Anfield-watchers.

The Reds look set to get a bumper share of the $40 million that FIFA has for the first time earmarked for payment to the clubs whose players took part in the recent World Cup in South Africa.

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Exclusive: Blatter delighted to see Iran compete at Youth Olympic Games following hijab controversy

By Tom Degun in Singapore

August 12 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter told insideworldfootball tonight of his pleasure at seeing the Iranian girls team compete in the first match of the inaugural 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore despite their participation being in doubt for a long period ahead of the competition following a row over what the team were allowed to wear.

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Exclusive: There will be no exception for FIFA over whereabouts claim WADA

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

August 11 – Football must adhere to the controversial “whereabouts” rule and top players must provide details of their location for one hour every day of the year, World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President John Fahey warned today.

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North Korea allegations of abuse to be investigated by FIFA

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

August 11 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter has demanded answers from North Korea after reports that its World Cup squad was publicly humiliated and coach Kim Jong-Hun sentenced to hard labour.

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Sepp Blatter: I’ve always been behind goal-line technology

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

August 11 – Sepp Blatter claimed today that his view on goal-line technology had never changed and that he is behind calls for its introduction as long as the right system can be developed.

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FIFA inspection visit to Russia to carry on

By Andrew Warshaw

August 11 – Russian officials insisted today that next week’s FIFA inspection visit for their 2018 World Cup candidature would most likely still go ahead despite the drought crisis that has plunged Moscow into a choking heat cloud.

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Japan fears Asia will lose World Cup places to Oceania

Japan v Australia World Cup

August 11 – A battle is set to be launched over the allocation of World Cup spots between Asia and Oceania, Japan Football Association President Junji Ogura has predicted.

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Adamu and politicians clash over state of Nigerian football

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

August 10 – FIFA Executive Committee Amos Adamu (pictured) today told Nigeria’s leaders that there is nothing wrong with football in the country despite the Super Eagles disappointing performance at the World Cup in South Africa.

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Poland begin preparing for terror threat during Euro 2012

August 10 – Euro 2012 poses a challenge for anti-terrorist services and “at this stage of preparations we consider all kinds of threats, even those which are remote but cannot be completely ruled out,” Deputy Polish Minister of Interior Adam Rapacki said.

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Exclusive: Top players are harming themselves with over-the-counter drugs

By Andrew Warshaw

August 10 – World football’s leading medical expert has issued a stark warning against footballers being treated with anti-infammatory drugs, saying normal over-the-counter medications can have startling side-effects that could potentially wreck careers.

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Coe: Blame FA and Capello for England World Cup failure

By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year

August 10 – Sebastian Coe, Britain’s double Olympic 1500 metres champion and now the head of the committee organising the London 2012 Olympics, has blamed the Football Association and Fabio Capello for England’s failure to do well at the World Cup in South Africa earlier this year.