By Andrew Warshaw
October 10 – The FIFA bribery investigation reaches another significant milestone today when 15 Caribbean officials face an Ethics Committee hearing into their involvement in the biggest scandal in the organisation’s history.
By David Gold
October 9 – South Africa are appealing to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) over their elimination from the 2012 African Nations Cup after they mistakenly played for a draw in their final qualifying game with Sierra Leone.
By Duncan Mackay
October 8 – Premier League club Fulham plan to increase the capacity at their picturesque Craven Cottage ground from 25,700 to 30,000 after shelving plans to move, they have revealed.
By David Gold
October 8 – The European Parliament is set to put forward a motion which will pressure La Liga to introduce a collective television deal in order to tackle the dominance of Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain’s top division.
By David Gold
October 7 – MATCH Hospitality has continued its appointment of official 2014 FIFA World Cup Hospitality Programme sales agents, by giving Traffic Sports and Grupo Águia the rights to sell the packages in the host country Brazil.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 7 – UEFA’s top brass are preparing to take on the Swiss civil courts following a fresh court order that FC Sion should be readmitted to the Europa League.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 7 – Chuck Blazer, the FIFA official who blew the whistle on the biggest bribery scandal in the organisation’s history, has gone into more detail behind his decision to step down as general secretary of his deeply divided Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF).
By David Gold
October 7 – Football Federation Australia (FFA) has confirmed that the Indonesian Bakrie Group have bought a majority stake in the current A-League champions Brisbane Roar.
By David Gold
October 6 – Chuck Blazer will resign in December from his post as the General Secretary of CONCACAF, at the end of a tumultuous year for the confederation.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football Conference in London
October 6 – Britain’s Sport and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson today admitted that England’s inability to win the 2018 World Cup bid was “the biggest single failure” of his reign.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football Conference in London
October 6 – Pierluigi Collina, widely regarded as the world’s most respected referee until his retirement six years ago, insists there is no need for goalline technology in football and that the use of two Additional Assistant Referees (AAR) is more than sufficient to deal with controversial incidents.
By Emily Goddard and David Gold
October 6 – Wayne Rooney’s father (pictured) and uncle were among nine men, which included Motherwell midfielder Steve Jennings, held by police this morning following a series of arrests carried out across Liverpool and Glasgow over allegations of suspicious betting activity during a Scottish Premier League (SPL) match, before being bailed.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football Conference in London
October 6 – Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis insists the ailing North London club will be able to cope financially without qualifying for the Champions League.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football Conference in London
October 6 – Sport and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson today urged Tottenham Hotspur one last time to drop their “pointless” bid for a judicial review into their failed bid to move to the Olympic stadium after next year’s Games, warning that no further deal would be on the table to help redevelop their own ground.
Karen Murphy’s victory in the European Court over showing live matches in her pub without paying Sky’s charges should not be overestimated. It will have consequences, particularly in the lower reaches of the game, but it should not be seen as televised football’s equivalent of the Bosman ruling. It is not.
Bosman has proved such a far-reaching, even revolutionary, judgement, that its effects are still being felt more than a decade and a half later.