By Duncan Mackay
May 30 – Leyton Orient are to approach West Ham United in a bid to ground-share the Olympic Stadium, despite its chairman Barry Hearn having claimed earlier this year that it “is not fit for football”.
By David Gold
May 29 – South Sudan has been confirmed as a member of FIFA with near unanimous support from member of world football’s governing body.
By Duncan Mackay
May 29 – Disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner will not face any criminal action in his native Trinidad and Tobago for his involvement in an alleged bribery scandal that forced him to resign from the world governing body last year, it has been announced.
By David Gold
May 29 – Domenico Criscito has been forced to withdraw from Italy’s squad for the 2012 European Championship as a result of the match-fixing probe in the country.
By Duncan Mackay
May 29 – Former FIFA President João Havelange has been released from hospital in Rio de Janeiro, more than two months after being admitted with a serious infection on his right ankle.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 28 – A bid to throw last year’s cash-for-votes whistleblower Chuck Blazer out of FIFA’s inner sanctum failed when not enough nations supported the move.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 28 – Antonio Conte (pictured below), who has just coached Juventus to the Serie A league title in his first season in charge, is reported to be among a number of high-profile names being questioned in the latest development in the Italian match-fixing probe.
By David Gold
May 27 – Three people have reportedly been killed with five others badly injured in violent clashes following a heated match in the rebel Indonesia Super League.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 26 – FIFA’s Asian vice-president Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan (pictured), the modernist who has led a tireless campaign to overturn the ban on Muslim women footballers wearing the hijab, says he is “shocked and disturbed” by suggestions there are still medical objections.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 26 – English FA chairman David Bernstein (pictured), strongly opposed a year ago to Sepp Blatter running uncontested for FIFA President, now believes the organisation has finally “seen the light”.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 25 – The first wave of reforms to clean up FIFA were ratified as expected today with the man who drew them up pleading with world football’s governing body not to return to the ills of the past.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 25 – After years of club-versus-country debate over who should pay for players injured on international duty, FIFA today laid out the terms of the groundbreaking insurance policy by revealing that a maximum $9.7 million (£6.2 million/€7.7 million) per player would be paid out covering a period of just over two years.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 25 – The automatic British vice-presidency of FIFA, which has been in place since 1947, looks almost certain to be scrapped as part of the drive to make football’s world governing body more forward-looking and less anachronistic.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 25 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter opened the main business of the 62nd FIFA Congress today with a speech that called for unity after a year of unprecedented scandal and damaging splits.
By David Gold
May 25 – ONE World Sports (ONS) has signed a three year extension to its coverage of Japanese, South Korean and Chinese football in the United States.