By Andrew Warshaw
October 31 – Serbian police have filed criminal charges against 12 players, fans and officials, including three from England, following last month’s explosive European under-21 playoff encounter that was marred by allegations of racism and a post-match melee.
By Duncan Mackay
October 30 – Former Blackpool and Torquay United player Tom Sermanni is to take over as coach of the United States Olympic gold medal winning women’s football team, it was announced today.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 30 – The English Football Association (FA) has launched an official investigation into allegations against FIFA referee Mark Clattenburg for allegedly using bad language towards two Chelsea players in Sunday’s (October 28) explosive Premier League clash with Manchester United.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 30 – Greek club PAOK Salonika have been ordered to play their next three European home games behind closed doors after losing an appeal against sanctions imposed by UEFA following a riot in August.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 30 – Lionel Messi is favourite to pick up a fourth consecutive FIFA World Player of the Year award after being selected among 23 candidates for the prestigious annual prize.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 30 – Aston Villa have become the first English Premier League club to publicly back a supporters’ campaign to bring back safe standing areas on a limited and experimental basis – but look certain to encounter strong opposition.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 29 – The English Premier League, already the richest in the world, has now signed a massive three-year deal with NBC to televise games in the United States starting next season.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 29 – In the first sponsorship arrangement of its kind, Barcelona have joined forces with Nokia India, a landmark breakthrough for a country traditionally more associated with cricket than football.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 29 – English football’s domestic racism problems, which appeared to be gradually subsiding, have been plunged into fresh controversy with Premier League leaders and European champions Chelsea lodging a formal complaint of “inappropriate language” by referee Mark Clattenburg during yesterday’s highly charged 3-2 home defeat by Manchester United.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 29 – The global clamour for the 2022 World Cup to be switched to the winter to avoid Qatar’s stifling desert heat could be scuppered – by FIFA’s own regulations.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 29 – The conviction and jail sentence of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for tax fraud has heaped further pressure on AC Milan, which the 76-year-old media mogul has owned for 26 years.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 29 – Polish Sports Minister Joanna Mucha is keeping her job despite offering her resignation over the embarrassing postponement of the recent FIFA World Cup qualifier with England.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 29 – Serie A club Napoli have been charged by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) in the latest dramatic development in the country’s long-running match-fixing saga.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 26 – An embarrassing difference of opinion has broken out between two of FIFA’s six Confederations after the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) announced it was staging a special centenary edition of its Copa América in the United States.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 26 – Serbian footballing authorities have taken pre-emptive action by suspending two of their own players as a result of the ugly scenes that followed the recent under-21 defeat by England.