By Andrew Warshaw
October 19 – UEFA boss Michel Platini (pictured right) took the unusual step of appearing in a Swiss court today over why UEFA has not yet implemented a ruling to reinstate Sion in the Europa League.
By David Gold
October 19 – A delegation from China, including the Chinese Football Association (CFA) chief Wei Di, is in Japan to try to learn from its neighbours’ success on the football field.
Sepp Blatter has made much of the need to crack down on corruption following the highly publicised bribery scandal and a raft of other misdemeanours within his organisation. Yet there is mounting criticism of the token punishments handed out by FIFA’s Ethics Committee to those who either took or were offered bundles of cash back in May.
Just when FIFA could have made an example of the guilty Caribbean officials who attended the infamous Trinidad meeting,
By David Gold
October 19 – Highlights from this week’s Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League semi-finals will be available to watch on a new YouTube channel, it has been announced.
By Tom Degun in Guadalajara
October 19 – Pressure has continued to mount on under fire Brazilian Sports Minister Orlando Silva after further evidence of alleged corruption emerged in the scandal that has left him fighting desperately for his position.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 19 – Chuck Blazer, the FIFA official who blew the whistle on the biggest bribery scandal in the organisation’s history, has launched a strongly worded rebuttal of a full-scale attack on him by former colleague Jack Warner, describing it as “garbage” and “an amazing work of fiction”.
By David Gold
October 18 – Argentine Football Association (AFA) President Julio Grondona has won a record ninth term in office following an Extraordinary Congress of the organisation.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 18 – Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards is the latest high-profile figure to denounce Liverpool’s demand for a greater share of overseas broadcasting revenue.
By David Gold
October 18 – An inquiry has been opened into the affairs of under fire Brazilian football chief Ricardo Teixeira, over allegations that he was involved in money laundering, the chief of the country’s fraud squad confirmed today.
By David Gold
October 18 – LA Galaxy’s David Beckham has reiterated his desire to play for Britain at the London 2012 Olympic Games, and has his sights firmly set on gold.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 18 – Barry Hearn, chairman of Leyton Orient, has written to the Government asking for London mayor Boris Johnson to be excluded from the next round of talks over the future of the Olympic Stadium.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
October 18 – Whenever Umberto Gandini holds court on the business of football, his audience invariably sits up and takes note.
By David Gold
October 18 – The Club World Cup, which sees the winners of the European Champions League and the Copa Libertadores compete against teams around the world who have won their respective continental club competitions, is set to be hosted by Morocco in 2013 and 2014, insideworldfootball can reveal.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 18 – UEFA are drawing up emergency plans to include both Sion and Celtic in the Europa League group stages if they lose the ongoing dispute with the Swiss club.
By Tom Degun in Guadalajara
October 17 – The majority of the players who competed at the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in Mexico earlier this year have returned positive doping tests due to contaminated meat with 19 of the 24 teams having squad members with traces of clenbuterol in their bodies.