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.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 2 – Workers at yet another of the 2014 World Cup stadiums, the Arena Fonte Nova (pictured) in Salvador, Brazil, have threatened to go on strike.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 2 – Horace Burrell (pictured), President of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), who was banned for six months – including three suspended – as part of last year’s cash-for-votes debacle, has broken his silence by admitting he failed to cooperate with the official investigation.
By Tom Degun
February 2 – Michael Lynch, the Visa head of global sponsorship marketing, has resigned following a successful 16-year career with the American multinational financial services corporation.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 2 – Tottenham Hotspur executive director Charlie Wijeratna, hired little more than a year ago from London 2012 with a brief to bring in fresh sponsorship, has left the club.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 2 – Three days of national mourning have been declared by the Egyptian authorities after at least 74 people died and over 1,000 were injured in one of football’s deadliest cases of fan violence for years.
By David Gold
February 1 – Thousands have been injured and 73 people have died tonight in clashes between rival fans of al-Ahly and Masry in the Egyptian Premier League, which has been indefinitely suspended as a result.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 1 – After numerous false dawns, FIFA have finally promised a “definitive decision” on goal-line technology but not until July, almost certainly ruling out it out for the start of next season.