By Andrew Warshaw
February 7 – A former chief executive of the Zimbabwean Football Federation (ZIFA), Henrietta Rushwaya (pictured centre), will stand trial later this month on charges related to one of football’s worst ever match fixing scandals.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 7 – A series of warm up games immediately before South Africa hosted the 2010 World Cup were “probably” targeted by Asian illegal match fixing syndicates, according to a leading South African Football Association (SAFA) official.
By David Gold
February 6 – West Ham vice chair Karren Brady (pictured) has said the club is still committed to a move to the Olympic Stadium.
By David Gold
February 6 – Russian Football Union (RFU) President Sergey Fursenko is determined that the country becomes a European football superpower, and has underlined their ambition to lift the World Cup on home soil in 2018.
By David Gold
February 5 – Australian champions Brisbane Roar have been fully taken over by Indonesia’s Bakrie Group, who had purchased a 70 per cent share in the club last October.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 6 – The long awaited release of documents detailing FIFA’s dealings with its former marketing agency ISL looks set to be further delayed, this time by several months, after appeals to block publication and keep the file secret were sent to Switzerland’s Supreme Court.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 5 – Just days after Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri sacked the entire Egyptian Football Association (EFA) Board in the wake of the Port Said riots in which 74 people died, FIFA President Sepp Blatter (pictured) is taking immediate steps to reinstate the relevant officials.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 5 – Former Football Association chairman Lord Triesman (pictured) has backed the decision to strip John Terry of the England captaincy over racism allegations levelled against him.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 5 – The John Terry (pictured left) saga has taken a new twist with England coach Fabio Capello publicly criticising his bosses at the English Football Association for stripping his skipper of the national team captaincy over the racism affair.
By David Gold
February 3 – A court has ordered workers involved in the construction of a stadium in Recife for the 2014 World Cup to end a strike which has lasted more than a week.
By David Gold
February 3 – Chelsea defender John Terry has been stripped of the England captaincy by the England Football Association (FA) chairman, David Bernstein, days after it was announced he would stand trial for allegedly racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in July.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 3 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter has requested a full report from Egyptian authorities over the violence that left 74 people dead and over 1,000 injured.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 3 – Former UEFA boss Lennart Johansson (pictured left) has called for FIFA President Sepp Blatter (right) to step down and hand over the reins now rather than at the end of his four-year term in 2015.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 2 – The entire board of the Egyptian Football Association has been dissolved by the Government in the wake of the riots on Wednesday in which 74 people died and over 1,000 were injured, reports said.
Football at the Olympics is greeted with a shrug here in Europe. Sales of tickets for this summer’s Games in London demonstrate that point illustratively. A total of 1.5 million tickets for the football went back on sale at the end of November, months after the mad dash for seats in the original ballot. With 8.8 million tickets overall for the Olympics, this represents a significant share given that it is one of only 26 sports.