By Andrew Warshaw
November 6 – Mark Clattenburg, the referee at the centre of English football’s latest storm, is being stood down for a second successive round of Premier League action next weekend as an investigation continues into allegations that he used “inappropriate language” towards a Chelsea player during last month’s controversial 3-2 defeat by Manchester United.
By Duncan Mackay
November 6 – A new set of draconian legislation to help fight corruption and match-fixing in football is being introduced by the Russian Government.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 6 – Scotland are looking for a new manager after Craig Levein was dismissed following three years in the job.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 6 – Ten years before hosting the FIFA World Cup, Qatar 2022 has signed an agreement with Interpol to ensure nothing is left to chance when it comes to safety and security.
By Duncan Mackay
November 6 – Samara is to build its stadium for the 2018 World Cup on a different site to the one approved by FIFA, it has been revealed.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 5 – English Football Association (FA) chairman David Bernstein says he is keeping an “open mind” over the possibility of referees’ comments during matches being recorded following the ongoing row over Mark Clattenburg.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 5 – FIFA vice-president Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein has called for the abolition of football’s overage player rule for the Olympic Games saying it does nothing to enhance the credibility of the event.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 5 – South African officials are trying to get players contracted to European clubs released early in order to prepare for January’s Africa Cup of Nations.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 5 – FIFA secretary general Jérôme Valcke says time is of the essence to ensure Brazil is ready for next summer’s Confederations Cup, the traditional World Cup dress rehearsal, and warns there must be no “logistical nightmares”.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 5 – Dinamo Zagreb fans have been barred by the French Government from attending the Champions League group game against Paris St Germain tomorrow.
By Duncan Mackay
November 2 – UEFA has drawn up detailed proposals for Michel Platini’s radical idea to spread the 2020 European Championship finals across Europe – and will present the unprecedented blueprint to its top brass next month, insideworldfootball understands.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 2 – Police have launched an investigation into an apparent racist gesture by a fan who attended Chelsea’s League Cup win over Manchester United on Wednesday (October 31).
By Andrew Warshaw
November 2 – The President of the French Football Federation (FFF), Noël Le Graët, has reassured UEFA that all stadiums will be ready for the 2016 European Championship.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 2 – Turkey is using this month’s Soccerex convention in Rio de Janeiro to further press its claims to stage the 2020 UEFA European Championship finals despite Istanbul’s plan to host the Olympics and Paralympics the same year.
Last Sunday Marcel Schmid was at Wembley to watch the New England Patriots play the St Louis Rams. Nothing remarkable in that you may think, some 84,000 others were also there as NFL made its annual foray outside its homeland in an effort to reach a worldwide audience.
But for Schmid, chairman of the International Football Arena (IFA), it provided renewed focus for one of the themes that will dominate this year’s conference in Zurich on November 12-13.