By Duncan Mackay
August 16 – Pelé’s profile, already skyhigh thanks to his position as the world’s best-ever footballer, is set to rocket even higher after he signed a deal that will see him become the face of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
By David Gold
August 16 – The prosecutor in the Italian match-fixing scandal has appealed against the decision to acquit Juventus players Simone Pepe and Leonardo Bonucci.
By Duncan Mackay in London
August 15 – Sport and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson is refusing to give up on the possibility of Team GB being represented in future Olympic football tournaments despite the Football Association withdrawing its support for the idea, effectively killing it.
By David Gold
August 15 – Adidas is asking football fans across the world to vote for the name of the ball that will be used during the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
By David Gold
August 15 – Mohamed Bin Hammam has once again vowed to clear his name after FIFA opened up a new investigation against the Qatari, who has accused world football’s governing body of a “clear abuse of power”.
By David Gold
August 15 – The La Liga season will get underway again as planned this weekend after an emergency meeting between league clubs angry at the state of television rights in Spain.
By David Gold
August 15 – English League One side Portsmouth are on the brink of liquidation after Balram Chainrai withdrew a bid to takeover the cash strapped team.
By David Gold
August 14 – Malawi have cancelled an international with Uganda which was due to take place tomorrow due to an outbreak of Ebola.
By David Gold
August 14 – Following a threat by 13 La Liga teams to delay the start of the season, the Spanish league has called a meeting of all first and second tier teams to take place today.
The Olympics always puts football in the box, if only for a brief two-week period.
Indeed, the very nature of football’s participation in the Games, with teams composed of players who hope to aspire to be the best, but are not yet the best, give it the status of an interloper. And as if to emphasise this status, football starts even before the Opening Ceremony. In the wider world, it may be the greatest of all sports,
By David Gold
August 13 – Liverpool owner John W Henry has cast doubt on whether UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules will work.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 13 – English Football Association (FA) chairman David Bernstein wants players to copy the sporting spirit shown by athletes at London 2012.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 13 – Less than a month after having his life ban for bribery overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), former FIFA Presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam (pictured) is back in the seemingly inescapable claws of FIFA.
By David Gold
August 13 – Verona’s Emanuele Pesoli, who has been banned for three years as part of the Italian match-fixing scandal, has chained himself to the gates of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) headquarters in Rome.
By Andrew Warshaw at Wembley Stadium in London
August 11 – A diplomatic row involving South Korea and Japan marred the latter stages of an otherwise high-quality and unpredictable men’s football competition at London 2012.