By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
May 29 – The four Executive Committee members, including Trinidad’s Jack Warner, accused by the former chairman of England’s 2018 World Cup bid chairman David Triesman of seeking sweeteners have been cleared by an independent report commissioned by the Football Association, FIFA disclosed today.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 20 – The Football Assoiciation and Premier League have given written submissions that there was no conflict of interest over the award of merchandise contracts to a company part-owned by the son of Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards.
By Duncan Mackay
May 16 – Another British MP has come forward to claim that Paraguay’s Nicolas Leoz (pictured) asked for a knighthood in return for voting for England to host the 2018 World Cup.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 16 – English FA chairman David Bernstein has admitted that the latest corruption claims against FIFA Executive Committee members may be impossible to prove.
By Duncan Mackay
May 14 – Worawi Makudi, one of the FIFA Executive Committee members who allegedly asked for favours to vote for England to host the World Cup in 2018, claimed today he is planning to sue Lord Triesman, the former leader of the bid.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – Sport and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson today called for a complete overhaul of the way World Cup hosts are chosen following the latest spate of corruption allegations to rock FIFA.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – FIFA vice-president Jack Warner today poured further scorn on sensational allegations that he asked for money to build an education centre in Trinidad in exchange for supporting England’s 2018 World Cup bid.
By David Gold at Westminster
May 10 – Former England 2018 bid chief Lord Triesman reflected that he would have advised the FA not to bid for the World Cup if he knew then what he knew now and defended the British media’s role in uncovering corruption in FIFA.
By David Gold at Westminster in London
May 10 – Mike Lee, an advisor to Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bidding team, accused England’s 2018 World Cup bid of arrogance as he gave evidence at the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
May 10 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter admitted today he was “shocked” by sensational new allegations of corruption involving no fewer than six of his Executive Committee and promised the world governing body would act once the evidence has been provided.
By David Gold at Westminster in London
May 10 – Lord Triesman told the Parliamentary inquiry into England’s failed bid to win the right to host the 2018 World Cup today that four FIFA Executive Committee members – Jack Warner, Nicolas Leoz, Ricardo Teixeira and Worawi Makudi – asked for bribes during the bidding process.
By David Gold
May 10 – CONMEBOL, South America’s governing body, has denied reports that its President, Nicolas Leoz, asked for a knighthood in return for supporting England’s bid to host the World Cup in 2018.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 8 – A voting member of FIFA’s Executive Committee asked for a knighthood in exchange for backing England’s bid to stage the 2018 World Cup, The Sunday Times newspaper reported today.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 5 – Claims that England’s 2018 World Cup bid team invited a prominent FIFA member to last week’s royal wedding to entice his vote have been denied.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 5 – Mike Lee, the arch-strategist behind a series of successful World Cup and Olympic bids, is to give evidence at the latest session of the ongoing Parliamentary inquiry into football governance.