By Andrew Warshaw
February 14 – The long-running attempt by fans to save Portsmouth Football Club has suffered yet another delay after a High Court hearing to determine the future of the iconic English club was adjourned for a fourth time.
February 14 – Despite successfully hosting the African Nations Cup, South African football continues to make negative headlines off the field in terms of its on-going involvement in match fixing.
February 14 – The battle to be the leading football broadcaster in the US has heated up with FOX Soccer digging deeper into the age-group football pyramid announcing rights to a package of five Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) events.
February 14 – Tourism is being given a massive facelift in Qatar as the country continues to build its infrastructure ahead of the 2022 World Cup.
February 13 – Celtic may have lost on the pitch in their Champions League first leg last 16 tie with Juventus last night, but off the pitch they are without doubt Champions League winners.
By Andrew Warshaw, chief correspondent
February 13 – The long-running saga over using the London 2012 Olympic stadium for football appears to be a step closer following talks between West Ham United and legacy chiefs.
February 13 – Football has been struck by yet another episode of racism with Inter Milan fined €15,000 euros by the Italian league for abusive chanting by their fans towards Mario Balotelli who has just joined arch-rivals AC Milan from Manchester City.
By Andrew Warshaw, chief correspondent
February 13 – World anti-doping authorities believe football should do more to combat the drug cheats even though the sport has no record of flagrant performance-enhancing abuse.
February 13 – Park Jong-woo, the South Korean Olympic team footballer, will be able to receive his Bronze medal from the 2012 Olympic Games after an International Olympic Committee Disciplinary Commission ruled in his favour.
February 13 – Scottish Premier League club Hearts face more financial uncertainty after Lithuanian owner Vladimir Romanov had the operations of his Ukio Bankas bank suspended and put under temporary administration by Lithuania’s central bank.
By David Owen
So Joseph Blatter doesn’t much care for the “unanimous” package of reform proposals for world football’s governing body published last month by UEFA.
The FIFA President conveyed his disappointment last weekend at a media conference in South Africa just before Nigeria’s triumph over Burkina Faso in the final of the 2013 African Cup of Nations.
I can’t say I am at all surprised.
However,
By Andrew Warshaw
February 12 – The price of success appears to be resignation for Nigeria’s successful African Nations Cup coach Stephen Keshi (pictured).
By Mark Baber
February 12 – A Special Report on the UK’s Sky Sports News broadcast yesterday (February 11) revealed how a 3 month investigation had filmed racist abuse by five white men at Millwall on November 18 aimed at Leeds forward and Senegal international El Hadj Diouf.
By Mark Baber
February 12 – The English Premier League has signed three year deals for audio-visual broadcast rights in several European markets, taking the decision to go with rights broking agencies rather than selling direct to broadcasters themselves.
By Andrew Warshaw, chief correspondent
February 12 – The latest stage in the long-running battle to prevent Portsmouth from being expelled from English football is set to take place on Thursday with another High Court hearing into efforts by fans group Pompey Supporters’ Trust to save the club.