By David Gold
February 8 – Sauli Niinistö (pictured left) has quit his post as President of the Football Association of Finland (SPL-FBF) after being elected as the President of Finland.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 8 – The global union for professional players, FIFPro, has called on FIFA and UEFA to heed their calls to make sure players in some countries are paid on time by their clubs or risk a potential strike.
By David Gold
February 7 – Louis van Gaal (pictured) cannot be named as a director at Dutch champions Ajax, a court in Amsterdam has ruled, following a dispute between members of the club’s Supervisory Board over his appointment last November.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 7 – A football symposium renamed in honour of former Welsh manager Gary Speed has been postponed in order to buy more time for fundraising.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 5 – The John Terry (pictured left) saga has taken a new twist with England coach Fabio Capello publicly criticising his bosses at the English Football Association for stripping his skipper of the national team captaincy over the racism affair.
By David Gold
February 3 – Chelsea defender John Terry has been stripped of the England captaincy by the England Football Association (FA) chairman, David Bernstein, days after it was announced he would stand trial for allegedly racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in July.
By David Gold
February 1 – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has published the reasons why it ruled in favour of UEFA in their battle with Swiss side FC Sion over their expulsion from the Europa League in December.
By David Gold
January 31 – Turkish Football Federation (TFF) chairman Mehmet Ali Aydınlar (pictured) and two of his deputies, Göksel Gümüşdağ and Lütfi Arıboğan, have resigned from their posts as a result of the ongoing match fixing investigation in the country.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 31 – Britain’s automatic FIFA Presidency is no longer under threat despite last year’s opposition to Sepp Blatter’s unchallenged re-election as FIFA President, according to the newest member of the organisation’s hierarchy, Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein (pictured).
By Andrew Warshaw
January 30 – Former Welsh manager Gary Speed texted his wife, Louise Speed (pictured), four days before his tragic death and “talked in terms of taking his life”, an inquest was told today.
By David Gold
January 30 – Ukrainian international goalkeeper Oleksandr Rybka (pictured) has been banned by UEFA for two years after testing positive for a banned substance last year.
By David Gold
January 30 – Tom Tomsk are set to be saved after Gazprom and Rosneft stepped in to help the ailing Russian Premier League side, following pressure from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 27 – Two-time Swiss champions Neuchâtel Xamax, the club where FIFA President Sepp Blatter used to be a director, have lost their appeal against being thrown out of the Swiss league for financial irregularities.
By David Gold
January 27 – The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has failed in its attempts to amend Article 58 of its disciplinary code, which would relegate any teams found guilty of match fixing, after the clubs rejected the proposed change.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 27 – The increasingly powerful Middle East broadcaster Al Jazeera has signed a new four year agreement with the French Football League (LFP), cementing the region’s involvement with French football.