By Andrew Warshaw
December 5 – The general secretary of the Football Association believes FIFA should introduce a filtration process to prevent World Cup bidding nations needlessly throwing away an entire budget.
By Andrew Warshaw
December 4 – The 2022 World Cup in Qatar should take place in January or February to avoid the scorching temperatures of the summer, according to FIFA Executive Committee member and German legend Franz Beckenbauer (pictured).
By Duncan Mackay in Zurich
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
December 3 – The Football Association’s acting chairman Roger Burden (pictured) tonight said he will quit because he no longer trusts members of FIFA after the failure of England’s World Cup bid.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
December 3 – After the night of the long knives for England’s vanquished 2018 World Cup bid, the post-mortems intensified today when campaign leader Andy Anson renewed his attack on FIFA”s bidding process.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
December 3 – Tottenham Hotspur today ruled out holding a referendum among its supporters to see if they back a proposed move to the Olympic Stadium in East London.
By David Owen in Zurich
December 3 – FIFA does not reveal how individual Executive Committee members cast their votes.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
December 2 – Cometh the hour, cometh Vladimir Putin. Well a few hours late, to be precise.
By David Owen in Zurich
December 2 – Money, money, money – Qatar’s audacious yet hugely well-resourced bid could not have won the 2022 World Cup without it.
By David Owen in Zurich
December 2 – The Spanish bid chief executive officer Miguel Ángel López was part right: all the fish WERE sold – only not to the Spanish.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
December 2 – So much for top-ranked technical and evaluation reports, Princes and Prime Ministers, an impeccable final presentation, words of commendation from FIFA President Sepp Blatter, history and tradition.
By Duncan Mackay in Zurich
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
December 2 – Qatar were awarded the 2022 World Cup by FIFA’s Executive Committee, it was announced here today.
By Duncan Mackay in Zurich
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
December 2 – Russia were awarded the 2018 World Cup as England were knocked out in the first round of voting here today.
By David Owen in Zurich
December 2 – Hosting the World Cup would help Russians in their quest to build a new country and overcome the difficulties they faced in the 20th century, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov told FIFA today, as Russia brought down the curtain on an intensive two days of bid presentations.
By Mihir Bose in Zurich
December 2 – Ricardo Teixeria the FIFA executive member from Brazil, whose vote could decide the hosts for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, faces a date in court back home.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
December 2 – England’s 2018 World Cup bid team rolled out their big guns to make a final plea to FIFA here today but it was a 27-year-old from a disadvantaged background who made the most poignant impression.