By Andrew Warshaw
October 19 – FIFA secretary general Jérôme Valcke is the latest top-ranking official to succumb to the pressures and stresses of the job after contracting a minor infection in Brazil.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 19 – Simone Farina, the Italian footballer turned match-fixing whistle-blower, has at last found a job after being recruited as a community coach at Aston Villa.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 19 – Former England captain John Terry has chosen not to appeal against the four-match ban and £220,000 ($353,000/€271,000) fine imposed on him for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand of Queens Park Rangers a year ago – and has apologised for his comments.
By Tom Degun
October 19 – Brazilian marines and paramilitary police have stormed one of Rio’s most notorious and dangerous slums in a bid to clean up the area before the city hosts the FIFA 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
By Tom Degun
October 19 – Manchester United’s chief executive David Gill has been appointed as a vice-chairman of the English Football Association (FA).
By Andrew Warshaw
October 18 – English Football Association (FA) chairman David Bernstein will be forced to resign from the post in May next year after the FA Council refused to change its statutes that would have allowed him to remain in charge beyond his 70th birthday.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 18 – Senegal have been disqualified from the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations following the riot that forced last weekend’s home qualifier against Ivory Coast to be abandoned.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 18 – Canadian women’s skipper Christine Sinclair says she has no regrets over comments that led to her receiving a four-game suspension from FIFA for displaying “unsporting behaviour towards match officials” after the London 2012 Olympic semi-final.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 18 – British Sports Minister Hugh Robertson has written to UEFA President Michel Platini demanding “tough sanctions” against Serbia following allegations of provocation and racial abuse meted out to England players and officials during Tuesday’s (October 16) ill-tempered under-21 international.
By Mike Rowbottom
October 17 – Rio’s doping control laboratory, expected to play a major part in Brazil’s hosting of the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, has been reinstated by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following its partial suspension on January 18.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 17 – Dominic Grieve, Britain’s Attorney General, is applying to have the verdicts of “accidental death” for the 96 fans killed in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster quashed.
By Tom Degun
October 17 – FIFA general secretary Jérôme Valcke has expressed his concern that Brazil’s six stadiums for the 2013 Confederations Cup will not be ready on time due to the slow pace of preparations.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 17 – The English Football Association (FA) has reported its Serbian counterparts to UEFA after worrying scenes marred the 2013 Under-21 European Championship playoff fixture between the sides last night.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 16 – The World Cup qualifier between Poland and England was dramatically called off tonight and rescheduled for 5pm local time tomorrow following unrelenting rain that made the £400 million ($646 million/€493 million) national stadium in Warsaw unplayable.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 16 – Egypt’s football association has delayed the rest of the domestic season indefinitely, saying it has not been given sufficient security guarantees by the Government in the wake of the Port Said tragedy.