By David Gold
July 7- Nicolas Anelka has dropped his claim for €150,000 (£132,000/$211,000) in damages from French sports newspaper L’Equipe, over their reporting of the confrontation the Chelsea striker had with former national team coach Raymond Domenech at the World Cup.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 6 – Suspended Asian football powerbroker Mohamed Bin Hammam is set to learn his eagerly awaited fate on July 23 in what promises to be a landmark hearing of FIFA’s ethics committee.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 5 – The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) today launched an independent investigation into its “internal stadium procedures” following the suspension of its director of services, Dionne Knight.
By David Gold
June 5 – Hong Jeong-ho (pictured), the captain of the South Korean Olympic football team, has been questioned by prosecutors investigating a match-fixing scandal engulfing the country.
By David Gold
September 1 – Wang Jianlin, the chairman of Dalian Wanda, has given the Chinese Football Association (CFA) 500 million yuan (£50 million/$81 million/€57 million) to fund a series of training and coaching programmes.
By David Gold
July 4 – The Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee has concluded that the Football Association’s “historic disengagement” from FIFA was a key cause in their failure to win the right to host the 2018 World Cup.
By David Gold
July 4 – A report by Britain’s Culture, Media and Sport select Committee into England’s failed bid to host the 2018 World Cup has attacked FIFA and renewed calls for world football’s governing body to review its bidding process, as well as the decision to drop an investigation into former CONCACAF power broker Jack Warner.
By David Gold
July 3 – Aziz Yildirim, the President of Turkish giants Fenerbahce, has been arrested along with 30 others in connection with an investigation into match fixing, according to Turkish state media.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 2 – Tottenham Hotspur, buffeted by continual rejections of attempts to take over the Olympic Stadium, have applied for a public funding grant to help resurrect the alternative plan to redevelop their White Hart Lane home.
By David Gold
July 2 – FIFA has banned Equatorial Guinea’s women’s team from qualifying for the London 2012 women’s Olympic football tournament for fielding an ineligible player.
By Emily Goddard
July 1 – An employee at The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) – the organisation that selected West Ham United over Tottenham Hotspur to take over London’s Olympic Stadium after 2012 – has today been suspended on full pay for undertaking paid consultancy work at the East London club.
By David Gold
July 1 – The Irish Football Association (IFA) has voted through changes to its articles of association, in doing so creating a 10 member elected Executive Board and devolving power over league affairs to the leagues themselves.
By Emily Goddard
June 30 – The Scottish Premier League (SPL) today announced a new four-year partnership that will see Mitre continue as official ball supplier until 2015.
By Mihir Bose
June 30 – FIFA will come in for unprecedented criticism from a House of Commons Select Committee over its handling of the corruption allegations surrounding World Cup bids next week.
By David Gold in London
June 30 – Brazil is facing a race against time to ensure the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro is ready for the 2013 Confederations Cup, whilst doubts over the construction of stadia in Natal and São Paulo persist, according to a report released today by UK Trade & Industry.