By David Gold
June 14 – Cities hosting World Cup games in Brazil in 2014 will be the first to enjoy the benefits of 4G wireless technology as super fast mobile internet access comes to the country.
By David Gold
June 14 – FIFA Director Walter Gagg is among the high profile figures who will be speaking at the Inside World Football Moscow Forum later this month, it has been announced.
By David Gold
June 13 – Tottenham Hotspur executive director Donna Cullen, who will be speaking at the Inside World Football Moscow Forum next week, claims Russia’s Premier League has the potential to become one of the best in Europe.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 13 – At least four more Caribbean countries have admitted they were offered thousands of dollars in cash as the plot thickens into the most explosive bribery scandal in the history of FIFA.
By David Gold
June 12 – Supporters Direct, the group which seeks to encourage fan ownership of sports clubs, could be forced to close down within weeks if the impasse over the organisation’s funding from the Premier League is not resolved.
By David Gold
June 12 – A new session looking at the social impact of the 2018 World Cup on Russia, which will feature a number of high profile speakers including former Russian national team captain Alexey Smertin, has been announced for the Inside World Football Moscow Forum, entitled “The Social Context: Will the World Cup change Russia?”
By Andrew Warshaw
June 11 – The investigation into the FIFA bribery scandal has been switched from Miami to the Bahamas after Caribbean members refused to travel to the United States.
By David Gold
June 10 – UEFA has confirmed the agreement of broadcast rights with partners across 130 countries worldwide for this summer’s European Under-21 Championship, which kicks off in Denmark tomorrow.
By David Gold
June 10 – Barcelona, who won the Champions League last month, have announced a pre-tax loss of €21 million (£18 million/$31 million) in the year leading up to June.
By David Gold
June 10 – The Football League has agreed in principle to adopt the new UEFA financial fair play system, which requires clubs to balance their books and break even each year, after a meeting in Cyprus.
By David Gold
June 9 – Five players from Mexico’s Gold Cup squad have been sent home after testing positive for the banned substance clenbuterol, which the general secretary of their football federation blamed on bad chicken or beef.
By David Gold
June 10 – FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke will be giving the keynote speech at the Inside World Football Moscow Forum in Russia later this month, it has been announced today.
By David Gold
June 9 – Premier League revenues increased by £49 million ($80 million) to exceed £2 billion ($3.2 billion) in total during the 2009-10 season but are rising slower than total wage costs, which grew by £64 million ($105 million) to £1.4 billion ($2.3 billion), according to the latest report published by accountants Deloitte.
By Andrew Warshaw in Warsaw
June 8 – On the day that marked exactly a year before Euro 2012 gets under way in Poland and Ukraine, eradicating fan violence was identified as a key concern for the tournament, the first ever major football event to be held in Eastern Europe.
By David Gold
June 8 – Qatar’s first stadium for the 2022 World Cup will be completed by 2015, according to their World Cup Committee secretary general Hassan Al Thawadi.