By David Gold
October 11 – FIFA general secretary Jérôme Valcke has praised the enthusiasm and commitment of Russia after the first meeting of world football’s governing body and the 2018 World Cup Local Organising Committee (LOC).
By David Owen
October 11 – The Football Association last year paid £63,000 ($98,500/€72, 400) in compensation to directors for “loss of office”, newly published accounts show.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 11 – West Ham United insisted today they still want to take over the Olympic Stadium despite the collapse of the deal allowing the club to move in straight after next year’s Games.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 11 – Michel D’Hooghe, one of FIFA’s most experienced and respected policy shapers, has hit out at criticism of the scandal-hit organisation by saying not enough account is taken of the work it does to promote the game globally.
By Duncan Mackay
October 11 – The deal to award West Ham the Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Games has collapsed, it has been reported.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 10 – Four days after Sport and Olympics Minister High Robertson described England’s doomed 2018 World Cup bid as the “biggest single failure” of his ministerial career, it was revealed today that the bid cost £6 million ($9.5 million/€7 million) more than everyone had been led to believe.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 10 – FIFA have appointed China’s Zhang Jilong, acting head of Asian football, to chair next week’s meeting of the London 2012 Olympic football tournament’s Organising Committee.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 10 – England will discover on Thursday (October 13) how long they will be without Wayne Rooney at next summer’s European Championship finals.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 10 – German football legend Franz Beckenbauer says UEFA chief Michel Platini is the obvious candidate to succeed Sepp Blatter as the next President of FIFA in four years’ time.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 10 – The FIFA bribery investigation reaches another significant milestone today when 15 Caribbean officials face an Ethics Committee hearing into their involvement in the biggest scandal in the organisation’s history.
By David Gold
October 9 – South Africa are appealing to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) over their elimination from the 2012 African Nations Cup after they mistakenly played for a draw in their final qualifying game with Sierra Leone.
By Duncan Mackay
October 8 – Premier League club Fulham plan to increase the capacity at their picturesque Craven Cottage ground from 25,700 to 30,000 after shelving plans to move, they have revealed.
By David Gold
October 8 – The European Parliament is set to put forward a motion which will pressure La Liga to introduce a collective television deal in order to tackle the dominance of Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain’s top division.
By David Gold
October 7 – MATCH Hospitality has continued its appointment of official 2014 FIFA World Cup Hospitality Programme sales agents, by giving Traffic Sports and Grupo Águia the rights to sell the packages in the host country Brazil.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 7 – UEFA’s top brass are preparing to take on the Swiss civil courts following a fresh court order that FC Sion should be readmitted to the Europa League.