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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 26 – Football history was made for all the wrong reasons today when Portsmouth, with debts of about £60 millon, became the first English Premier League club to enter administration.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 26 – Non-European nations applying to host the 2018 soccer World Cup have reportedly been told by FIFA they should drop out and concentrate on the 2022 tournament.
By Mike Rowbottom
February 26 – It was ten years ago that Roy Keane (pictured) made his celebrated remarks about Old Trafford spectators in executive boxes - “they have a few drinks and probably the prawn sandwiches, and they don’t realise what’s going on out on the pitch.”
By Andrew Warshaw
February 25 – David Ginola kicks off his new role as an ambassador for England’s 2018 World Cup bid by accompanying bid officials to the Caribbean football union Congress this weekend.
By David Owen
February 25 - The Japan 2018-2-22 World Cup bid has added three more players to its team of ambassadors.
By David Owen
February 24 – Jack Warner (pictured) has entered the debate about the wisdom of staging the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, telling insideworldfootball in an exclusive interview that it was “inconceivable” that South Africa could put on as financially successful a tournament as Germany.
By Duncan Mackay in Vancouver
February 23 – The Bundesliga, the world’s most popular football league, is to back Munich’s bid to host the 2018 Olympics and Paralympics, it was announced at a special ceremony here tonight.