By Duncan Mackay
May 12 – Sepp Blatter was given another boost in his bid to be re-elected as FIFA president when the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) announced that it would back him against Asian football chief Mohamed Bin Hammam.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 12 – FIFA Presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam laid into Sepp Blatter today as the war of words between the pair intensified but was careful not to directly blame his rival for the latest wave of corruption allegations that have made worldwide headlines.
As Sepp Blatter prepared for a press conference at FIFA House in Zurich on Tuesday about new ways of making football a better spectacle, the only line of awkward questioning he was probably contemplating was why the three most high-profile members of FIFA’s newly-established Task Force 2014 had failed to show up for its debut session.
Then someone, presumably his general secretary, told him the bad news. That in London at exactly the same time,
By David Gold
May 12 – The Indonesian FA (PSSI) has been forced to bow to pressure from FIFA as the Normalisation Committee set up to run the country’s football affairs confirmed the final list of candidates eligible to run in their elections next week, with controversial candidates George Toisutta and Arifin Panigoro absent
By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – African football chief Issa Hayatou today became the latest FIFA powerbroker to deny corruption allegations made against him by a British Parliamentary Committee.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – The stunning fresh corruption allegations involving six of FIFA’s most powerful administrators will be dealt with before the upcoming Congress at the end of May, Sepp Blatter pledged today.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – Sport and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson today called for a complete overhaul of the way World Cup hosts are chosen following the latest spate of corruption allegations to rock FIFA.
By David Gold
May 11 – Japan looks set to withdraw from the Copa America for a second time, with Costa Rica to take their place at the tournament, being held in Argentina this July, according to FOXSports.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – Mohamed Bin Hammam, the challenger to incumbent Sepp Blatter for the FIFA Presidency, has leapt to the defence of Jack Warner over the corruption allegations against the controversial Caribbean powerbroker.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – FIFA vice-president Jack Warner today poured further scorn on sensational allegations that he asked for money to build an education centre in Trinidad in exchange for supporting England’s 2018 World Cup bid.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 10 – Qatar’s 2022 World Cup organisers wasted no time tonight categorically denying explosive reports that it paid bribes to two members of the FIFA Executive Committee to support its bid.
By Mike Rowbottom
May 10 – Former Welsh international footballer Ivor Powell, whose role as the world’s oldest working football coach was recognised in 2006 by the Guinness Book of Records, today unveiled a bronze statue of himself to mark 37 years of service to the University of Bath.
By David Gold
May 10 – France national team coach Laurent Blanc has been cleared by the Government inquiry into the proposal to introduce ethnic quotas restricting the number of players of African and North African origin being trained in French academies.
By David Gold at Westminster
May 10 – Former England 2018 bid chief Lord Triesman reflected that he would have advised the FA not to bid for the World Cup if he knew then what he knew now and defended the British media’s role in uncovering corruption in FIFA.
By David Gold at Westminster in London
May 10 – Mike Lee, an advisor to Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bidding team, accused England’s 2018 World Cup bid of arrogance as he gave evidence at the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.