Npower joins the England 2018 World Cup party
March 11 – First BT, then Morrisons, now Npower.
Top award for insideworldfootball editor
March 8 – Duncan Mackay (pictured), the editor of insideworldfootball, has tonight been voted the Internet Writer of the Year at the annual British Sports Journalists’ Association (SJA) Awards dinner in London.
Mihir Bose: Will the Red Knights plan to buy Manchester United go the way of Project Merlin?
A walk down memory lane is not always a game for the old. But it can be very useful for the football fan.
It is this thought that makes me ask: will the Red Knights plan to buy Manchester United go the way of Project Merlin?
Andrew Warshaw: Football takes backward step
By Andrew Warshaw
It will go down as the day football’s lawmakers decided they knew better than fans, players, managers and referees alike. And you had to be there to believe it.
Technology kicked into touch
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
March 6 – Football’s traditionalist lawmakers today slammed the door permanently shut on goalline technology, in the process over-ruling both the English and Scottish FAs who were adamant it should have been given further investigation.
Fourth official and goal line technology on IFAB agenda
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
March 5 – Giving the fourth official a greater say in decision-making and another attempt to introduce goalline technology are the main items on the agenda at Saturday’s annual meeting of the International FA Board, the game’s rule-makers comprising FIFA and the four British Home Associations.
Interpol mounts biggest ever World Cup security operation
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
March 5 – Interpol will mount its biggest ever joint intelligence gathering operation for a sports event at this summer’s World Cup, the organisation’s security chief said today.
Porto chief calls for more Champions League money
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 3 – European clubs who fail to qualify for the Champions League should be given a greater percentage of the tournament’s revenues, according to Arsenal’s next opponents in the competition.
Old firm clubs warned over separate TV deals
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 3 – Celtic and Rangers face expulsion from the Scottish Premier League (SPL) if they dare try to negotiate their own television deals, warns SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster (pictured).
Garber hails progress of MLS
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 3 – Don Garber (pictured), the Commissioner of the Major League Soccer (MLS), says football in his country has come on leaps and bounds but still has a long way to go to match the established sports in the United States.
Exclusive: Top UEFA executive attacks football’s ills
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 3 – Former UEFA general secretary David Taylor (pictured) has attacked football’s spiralling debt and says measures must be implemented to stop the situation getting out of control.
Gazidis warns football must heed the warning signs
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 2 – Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis (pictured) says European football badly needs to heed the warning signs and regulate itself to stop more clubs being plunged into chaos.
Gill breaks silence over United takeover bid
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 2 – Manchester United chief executive David Gill (pictured) insisted Wednesday that the club’s controversial American owners would remain in control long-term despite a growing protest movement to force them out.
Mihir Bose: “Who has been the greatest manager in British football?”
Just hours before Sir Alex Ferguson won yet another trophy, when Manchester United lifted the Carling Cup beating Aston Villa, there was a very interesting programme on ESPN Classic.
What European football needs to learn from Charles Dickens
By David Owen
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”