By Andrew Warshaw
May 31 – The 2012 European Championship hosts Ukraine and Poland have hit back sharply at a BBC television programme that highlighted entrenched racism in both countries, saying the Panorama broadcast was “unbalanced and biased” and that fans would be perfectly safe.
By David Gold
May 30 – Kevin Foley is the highest profile casualty from the Republic of Ireland squad for the 2012 European Championship, while Russia coach Dick Advocaat has named uncapped defender Kirill Nababkin in his squad to alleviate an injury crisis.
By David Gold
May 30 – Germany, France and Greece have confirmed their 23-man squads for this summer’s UEFA European Championship.
By David Gold
May 29 – Italy’s friendly match with Luxembourg this evening has been cancelled after an earthquake, which reportedly killed 10 people, struck near Parma, where the game was due to be played.
By David Gold
May 29 – Poland and Spain have both confirmed their respective squads for this summer’s European Championship, which gets underway in just under two weeks’ time, with no David Villa or Carles Puyol in the title holders’ 23-man selection.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 28 – Shocking new evidence of entrenched racism and violence in Ukrainian and Polish football has cast a dark shadow over the 2012 European Championship which starts on June 8.
By Alan Hubbard
May 27 – The British Government are considering whether to join a political boycott of the upcoming European football championship in protest at Ukraine’s human rights record.
By Tom Degun at the Sport Accord Convention in Québec City
May 25 – International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge has dismissed the threat posed to a successful Istanbul 2020 Olympics and Paralympics bid by the European Championship finals bid from Turkey insisting that only the bid for the Games has the support of the Turkish Government.
By Andrew Warshaw in Budapest
May 24 – UEFA President Michel Platini has once again reiterated that Turkey will not be allowed to host the European Championship finals in 2020 if Istanbul is awarded the Olympics and Paralympics the same summer.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 22 – Ukraine’s police force has been urged to go easy on foreign tourists at the 2012 European Championship and improve their image of heavy-handedness.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 22 – Ukraine’s most iconic sportsman, Sergey Bubka, says talk of a boycott of the 2012 UEFA European Championship by European Governments is “senseless” and will serve no purpose.
By Mike Rowbottom in Athens
May 18 – David Beckham has applauded the England manager Roy Hodgson’s decision to take on his old Manchester United teammate Gary Neville as a coaching assistant for the forthcoming European Championships.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 16 – The omission of Manchester United stalwart Rio Ferdinand was the major surprise of the England squad for the 2012 European Championship announced today by new manager Roy Hodgson.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 16 – UEFA, European football’s governing body has bizarrely refused to identify those countries who have expressed an interest in hosting the 2020 European Championship.
From Andrew Warshaw at Westminster in London
May 15 – Referees at the 2012 European Championship will, for the first time, be given the green light to sanction players for racial abuse, following the publication of new UEFA guidelines.