By Tom Degun at the Aspire Dome in Doha
November 16 – The Supreme Committee for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar has confirmed that all 12 stadiums for the event will be ready by the 2021 Confederations Cup, clearing the way for the competition to be held in either the summer or the winter.
By Tom Degun at the Aspire Dome in Doha
November 15 – Former Spain and Real Madrid striker Raúl believes that Qatar could be a threat at the 2022 FIFA World Cup when the sovereign Arab state plays host to the prestigious competition.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 15 – Former German goalkeeper Jens Lehmann says the social media revolution is having a detrimental effect on footballers being able to communicate properly on the pitch.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 15 – Lucrative new sponsorship deals allied to a strong start to the season at home and in Europe have contributed to cut the mountain of debt at Manchester United, regarded as the world’s best-supported club.
By Tom Degun at the Aspire Dome in Doha
November 15 – Former England and Liverpool player John Barnes has said that football must not look for racism where it doesn’t exist despite the fact that it is one of the most high-profile issues in the sport at present.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 15 – The international players’ union FIFPro has raised concerns over the decision to stage certain matches at the 2014 FIFA World Cup during the hottest part of the day in more tropical venues.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 15 – Sunday’s eagerly awaited African Champions League final second leg between Esperance of Tunisia and Egypt’s Al Ahly will have a restricted crowd of 35,000 due to fears of fan violence.
By Tom Degun at the Aspire Dome in Doha
November 14 – Dutch football legend Ruud Gullit has become the latest high profile figure in the sport to call for the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar to be held in the winter to avoid the searing summer desert temperatures.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 14 – Serbian football, already under the threat of disciplinary sanctions by UEFA, has now fallen foul of FIFA as well as a result of crowd disturbances in a World Cup qualifying match against Wales.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 14 – Romanian football has been plunged into disgrace after prison sentences were handed out to some of the country’s most influential senior executives and former players for tax evasion and money laundering in connection with the overseas transfers of 12 players over a six-year period.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 14 – South African football is reeling from the deaths of four players killed in a car accident in the same region where national team assistant coach Thomas Madigage lost his life in another crash last month.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 14 – One of the two investigations into the Chelsea-Mark Clattenburg case has been dropped through lack of sufficient evidence, the latest twist in a debacle that continues to sour English football.
By Andrew Warshaw at the International Football Arena in Zurich
November 13 – Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay has launched a staunch defence of the club’s image insisting the vilification the European champions have suffered in recent weeks over the racism-fuelled John Terry and Mark Clattenburg cases has unfairly overshadowed what they have achieved on the field and in supporting local communities across the world.
By Andrew Warshaw at the International Football Arena conference in Zurich
November 13 – Football can learn several lessons from how the NFL operates in the United States, not least giving more black coaches the opportunity to be interviewed for senior positions, the NFL’s United Kingdom managing director, Alistair Kirkwood, declared today.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 13 – The much publicised road map to reform undertaken by FIFA after the most scandal-tainted period in its history will come to a definitive end in May next year when the organisation’s 209-member congress is presented with a series of proposals designed to bring transparency and accountability back to world football’s governing body.