By Andrew Warshaw
October 15 – European football’s full membership is meeting in emergency session at UEFA headquarters today to decide whether to drop support for their leader’s bid to succeed Sepp Blatter as FIFA president in February – and what to do about the immediate future of their own organisation.
By Jaroslaw Adamowski
October 15 – Norwegian side Sandnes Ulf has confirmed its long-awaited plans to open a new stadium to support its efforts to secure promotion back to the country’s top tier. But the wait isn’t over as the stadium will not be completed until 2018.
“Il n’y a pas le feu au lac” – “The lake’s not on fire.” Swiss saying
If the famous Lake Geneva is not painting the sky with flames – and, quite obviously, it never has nor will – it’s said to be difficult to rouse a Swiss to any sense of urgency. Other French-speaking nations believe that in the land of the cuckoo clock and precision watches, time moves slowly.
By David Owen
October 15 – Manchester City has emulated the bulk of its Premier League rivals by moving into profit – for the first time since the club’s takeover by Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan in 2008. The club from the blue side of Manchester reported a pre-tax profit of £10.4 million for the year to end-May 2015.
By Paul Nicholson
October 15 – Oulala.com, the daily fantasy football platform, has unveiled a new version of its site which is available to consumers in the UK for the very first time. The monetised site allows users to buy into games and play daily and in ‘real time’.
The slick first public appearance of Jürgen Klopp at Liverpool seems to have caught English media and football fans by surprise, and has already made him a favourite with many.
October 14 – UEFA have opened disciplinary proceedings against Moldova over crowd disturbances, including racism, during a European Championship qualifier against Russia.
October 14 – Next summer’s Euro 2016 finals will be conspicuous by the absence of the orange army after the Netherlands, World Cup semi-finalists only 15 months ago, failed to even make the playoffs.
By Mark Baber
October 14 – Italy’s financial police raided Italian League and club offices as part of an investigation into alleged irregularities in the assignment of TV broadcasting rights involving rights agency Infront, Sky Italia and Mediaset, Italian media reported on Tuesday. Bari and Genoa also allegedly received irregular help in meeting the financial criteria for Serie B and Serie A.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 14 – FIFA’s ethics committee has thrown out yet another corrupt official with South Africa’s Lindile Kika banned for six years as part of the match-fixing investigation involving friendly games ahead of the 2010 World Cup that sent shockwaves through the country.
October 14 – England’s achievement in securing a 100% record with 10 straight wins during Euro 2016 qualifying has been marred by being charged by UEFA over crowd disturbances at their final fixture in Luthuania on Monday.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 14 – Suspended former powerbroker Worawi Makudi looks set to defy FIFA’s ethics committee by contesting Thailand’s forthcoming FA presidential election in what would be a flagrant violation of the rules.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 14 – With potentially everything to lose if the FIFA presidential election is delayed, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan has seized the initiative by calling for the vote to take place as scheduled on February 26.
October 9 – Digital pitchside advertising specialists Supponor and ADI have combined their expertise to launch the world’s first broadcast quality LED virtual advertising solution.
October 14 – Former Liverpool forward Djibril Cisse is at the centre of a blackmail investigation in France having been taken into custody and then released.