By Paul Nicholson
December 8 – The US Department of Justice’s attempts to get former CONCACAF president and FIFA vice president Jack Warner to the US to stand trial looks set to suffer further delay.
December 8 – Former Swansea City manager Michael Laudrup and the club itself have denied he was sacked – mysteriously at the time – because of concerns that he and, primarily, his agent stood to profit from player transfers.
December 8 – UEFA have opened disciplinary proceedings against Celtic following crowd disturbances and fireworks set off by fans in this week’s Champions league meeting with Manchester City.
December 7 – Mexico’s Liga MX is to start an 18-team women’s league in 2017. President Enrique Bonilla (pictured) said the league will begin with a cup competition in the spring before the formal season begins in September.
December 7 – Manuel Burga, former president of the Peruvian Soccer Federation (FPF), has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges in a New York court after being extradited from his homeland.
December 7 – Bolivian authorities have detained the chief executive of the airline involved in the fatal crash last week that killed 71 people, including most of the Brazilian football team, Chapecoense.
December 6 – Chapecoense have officially been awarded the Copa Sudamericana by CONMEBOL after most of their team died in the fatal plane crash en route to the first leg of the Copa Libertadores final in Colombia.
By Samindra Kunti
December 6 – Belgian topflight club Standard Liege wants to ban their supporters from travelling to away matches after their match with Charleroi was abandoned due to crowd trouble.
December 6 – Amid increasing security challenges facing host and bidding nations, a leading expert from the International Centre for Sport Security has highlighted the need for enhanced international collaboration and information-sharing at global level.
December 2 – The UEFA executive committee holds its final meeting of the year next Friday and is scheduled to address European football’s most burning issue: the proposed new Champions league format.
By Samindra Kunti
December 2 – Dutch club Feyenoord has unveiled ambitious plans for a new stadium, part of a larger Feyenoord City campus in the south of Rotterdam. The future venue has a projected price tag of €400 million.
December 2 – British football’s child abuse scandal has taken another unsavoury twist with reports that a former Chelsea player was paid £50,000 by the Premier League club not to go public with allegations that he was sexually abused by the club’s former chief scout Eddie Heath.
December 1 – British football’s historical child sex abuse scandal has taken a “staggering” turn for the worse, with 15 police different regional police forces now pulled in as part of nationwide inquiries after several former players made allegations of abuse against one-time coaches.
December 1 – The chartered plane that tragically crashed in Colombia wiping out virtually an entire Brazilian football team was running out of fuel, according to the pilot’s final words.
By Samindra Kunti
November 30 – Belgium’s proposed Brussels-based stadium for EURO2020 has landed in the middle of another storm of controversy after the city of Brussels gave the projected building site of the stadium in leasehold to building consortium Ghelamco for a symbolic euro.