By David Gold
June 4 – The English League Cup is to be known as the Capital One Cup from 2012-2013 after the credit card brand replaced Carling as the competition’s title sponsor.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 3 – Disgraced former FIFA powerbroker Jack Warner’s fierce denial that he had anything to do with secretly owning a Centre of Excellence in his native Trinidad and Tobago that was supposed to belong to entirely to CONCACAF has been exploded by the local media in Port of Spain.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 2 – Just days after banning a raft of Turkish clubs from Europe for financial irregularities, UEFA has now come down hard on Greek football, kicking AEK Athens out of next season’s Europa League.
By David Gold
June 1 – The head of the FIFA delegation currently touring prospective host cities for the Russia 2018 World Cup has praised the black sea resort of Sochi.
By Duncan Mackay
June 1 – West Ham United today ruled out sharing the Olympic Stadium with Leyton Orient, claiming that they are the only club in East London capable of filling the arena on a regular basis.
By David Gold
June 1 – General Motors’ Chevrolet brand has become the automotive sponsor of Manchester United in a five year deal to help promote the car to the club’s 659 million fans and beyond.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 1 – Trinidad and Tobago’s chief prosecutor says further investigations may be needed into how around $1 million (£652,000/€811,000) was brought into the country and paid to Caribbean football officials in last year’s cash-for-votes bribery scandal.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 1 – The anti-discrimination group, Football Against Racism in Europe (FARE), has linked up with UEFA to monitor obscene chanting and other racist activities at the 2012 European Championship in Poland and Ukraine.
By David Gold
June 1 – Brazil 2014 has launched its official slogan for the world cup – “all in one rhythm”.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 1 – FIFA appear to have backtracked slightly over the precise conditions of allowing the Balkan province of Kosovo to play friendly matches.
By David Gold
May 31 – The teams competing at this summer’s European Championship have all confirmed their squads for the tournament.
By David Gold
May 31 – Turkish outfits Beşiktaş and Bursaspor have been suspended from European competitions for a year by UEFA due to financial difficulties.
European football is proving more resilient than many businesses in the face of the fiscal and economic shadows hanging over Europe.
But, as the new Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance* makes clear, not everything is rosy in the rose-garden.
Take Spain, home of arguably Europe’s two leading clubs – Barcelona and Real Madrid.
By David Gold
May 31 – Spanish Sports Minister José Ignacio Wert has said that Barcelona and Real Madrid are open to agreeing a more balanced television rights agreement with fellow La Liga teams.
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.