By David Owen
October 11 – The Football Association last year paid £63,000 ($98,500/€72, 400) in compensation to directors for “loss of office”, newly published accounts show.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 11 – Michel D’Hooghe, one of FIFA’s most experienced and respected policy shapers, has hit out at criticism of the scandal-hit organisation by saying not enough account is taken of the work it does to promote the game globally.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 10 – German football legend Franz Beckenbauer says UEFA chief Michel Platini is the obvious candidate to succeed Sepp Blatter as the next President of FIFA in four years’ time.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 10 – The FIFA bribery investigation reaches another significant milestone today when 15 Caribbean officials face an Ethics Committee hearing into their involvement in the biggest scandal in the organisation’s history.
By David Gold
October 8 – The European Parliament is set to put forward a motion which will pressure La Liga to introduce a collective television deal in order to tackle the dominance of Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain’s top division.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 7 – UEFA’s top brass are preparing to take on the Swiss civil courts following a fresh court order that FC Sion should be readmitted to the Europa League.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 7 – Chuck Blazer, the FIFA official who blew the whistle on the biggest bribery scandal in the organisation’s history, has gone into more detail behind his decision to step down as general secretary of his deeply divided Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF).
By David Gold
October 7 – Football Federation Australia (FFA) has confirmed that the Indonesian Bakrie Group have bought a majority stake in the current A-League champions Brisbane Roar.
By David Gold
October 6 – Chuck Blazer will resign in December from his post as the General Secretary of CONCACAF, at the end of a tumultuous year for the confederation.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football Conference in London
October 6 – Pierluigi Collina, widely regarded as the world’s most respected referee until his retirement six years ago, insists there is no need for goalline technology in football and that the use of two Additional Assistant Referees (AAR) is more than sufficient to deal with controversial incidents.
By Emily Goddard and David Gold
October 6 – Wayne Rooney’s father (pictured) and uncle were among nine men, which included Motherwell midfielder Steve Jennings, held by police this morning following a series of arrests carried out across Liverpool and Glasgow over allegations of suspicious betting activity during a Scottish Premier League (SPL) match, before being bailed.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football Conference in London
October 5 – International qualifiers, both for the European Championship and the World Cup, will be played across six days between Thursdays and Tuesdays from 2014 to maximise television coverage and broadcast income, as well as stopping other sports taking precedence, UEFA announced today.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football Conference in London
October 5 – Goal-line technology could be put back a year because the accuracy of ongoing tests will not be ready on time, English Football Association general secretary Alex Horne revealed today.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football Conference in London
October 5 – Argentina’s senior FIFA vice President Julio Grondona has officially apologised for his scathing attack on the way England are perceived the corridors of world football, English FA chairman David Bernstein revealed today.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 6 – Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour remains top of football’s rich list compiled by the magazine FourFourTwo, which estimated his worth at £20 billion ($31 billion/€23 billion).