By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
October 18 – Whenever Umberto Gandini holds court on the business of football, his audience invariably sits up and takes note.
By Tom Degun in Guadalajara
October 17 – The majority of the players who competed at the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Mexico earlier this year have returned positive doping tests due to contaminated meat with 19 of the 24 teams having squad members with traces of clenbuterol in their bodies.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 17 – Football conferences dealing with the most pressing issues in the world game have sprung up virtually all over the globe in past decade.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 22 – Players’ agents could have their earnings from transfers capped under a controversial new crackdown being considered by FIFA.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 20 – Issa Hayatou, the African football powerbroker who has twice denied corruption allegations in the past year, is to take over the running of FIFA’s much-trumpeted GOAL Bureau that distributes funds to poorer nations and supports development projects.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 8 – Mohamed Bin Hammam’s eagerly awaited appeal against his life ban for bribery will be heard next week – with the outcome almost certain to rubber-stamp his permanent exclusion from all footballing issues.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 30 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter has taken another swipe at the English as he prepares to outline plans to reform the world governing body in the light of recent bribery scandals.
By David Gold
August 24 – An e-petition calling the British government to release files relating to the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy has passed the 100,000 mark, meaning the House of Commons business committee must consider putting it forward for discussion in Parliament’s lower chamber.
By Andrew Warshaw in Rio de Janeiro
July 27 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter today refuted allegations by one-time colleague Mohamed Bin Hammam that he ran the organisation like a dictator but refused to get drawn any further into the explosive bribery scandal that snared the former Asian football chief at the weekend.
By Duncan Mackay in Zurich
July 24 – Mohamed Bin Hammam today continued to protest his innocence after being given a life ban for bribery by FIFA but the lack of support for him, especially from Asia, was deafening.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 21 – A former boss of Interpol now working for FIFA says struggling players from poorer nations are being recruited to rig results of matches in exchange for being promised lucrative contracts in Europe and South America.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 7 – Mohamed Bin Hammam today broke a month-long silence over explosive bribery allegations against him and indicated, as first reported by insideworldfootball, that he would fight to the end to clear his name.
By David Owen in Durban
July 7 – FIFA President Joseph Blatter will depart from here with a blueprint of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) ethics machinery in his briefcase.
By David Gold
July 4 – A report by Britain’s Culture, Media and Sport select Committee into England’s failed bid to host the 2018 World Cup has attacked FIFA and renewed calls for world football’s governing body to review its bidding process, as well as the decision to drop an investigation into former CONCACAF power broker Jack Warner.
By Andrew Warshaw in Moscow
June 25 – FIFA’s Ethics Committee looks set to announce their eagerly awaited verdict on world football’s most sordid bribery scandal on July 18, according to sources close to the case.