May 7 – FIFA vice-president Chung Mong-Joon (pictured) has launched an extraordinary attack on Asian Football Confederation (AFC) chief Mohamed bin Hammam, saying he had mental problems and needed hospital treatment.
March 20 – England deserves to host the 2018 World Cup, Mohamed Bin Hammam, the president of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), has said.
FEBRUARY 1 – FIFA PRESIDENT Sepp Blatter (pictured) wants to lower the age limit for the Olympic soccer tournament and ban the addition of three over-23 players, he said today.
BOB HOUGHTON (pictured), the former Bristol City manager, is hoping to guide India’s footballers to the 2012 Olympics for the first time in 60 years.
FIFA today agreed to adopt the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) revised drug testing code, thus avoiding another potential row over football’s future in the Olympics.
MAY 11 – FOOTBALL has been warned again that it faces being dropped from the 2012 London Olympics unless it agrees to implement a worldwide code on doping that has been ratified by nearly every other major sport and Government.