Lamb appointed to FA Board
By David Gold
July 8 – Former Middlesbrough chief executive Keith Lamb has been appointed to the Football Association’s Board of Directors.
Algeria joins race to replace Libya as 2013 African Nations Cup hosts
By David Gold
July 8 – Algeria has thrown its hat into the ring to host the 2013 African Nations Cup, which seems set to be taken away from war torn Libya.
Turkish Football Federation implicated in match fixing scandal as Fenerbahce risk relegation
By David Gold
July 8 – The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has been implicated in the match fixing scandal engulfing Turkish football, whilst champions Fenerbahce facing the prospect of relegation and having their title from last season stripped if found guilty of the allegations levelled at them.
Ahsan Ali Syed blamed for collapse of Racing Santander
By David Gold
July 8 – Racing Santander have filed for voluntary administration due to debts of €33 million (£48 million/$47 million), blaming the move on the sale of the club to businessman Ahsan Ali Syed (pictured) and his failure to make debt repayments.
Bin Hammam declares he will not give up the fight to rebuild his reputation
By Andrew Warshaw
July 7 – Mohamed Bin Hammam today broke a month-long silence over explosive bribery allegations against him and indicated, as first reported by insideworldfootball, that he would fight to the end to clear his name.
Exclusive: Blatter seeking information on how he can use Olympic blueprint to help clean-up FIFA
By David Owen in Durban
July 7 – FIFA President Joseph Blatter will depart from here with a blueprint of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) ethics machinery in his briefcase.
Anelka drops libel case against French newspaper
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.
Judgement day set for Bin Hammam in corruption case
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.
Olympic company launches independent investigation of stadium bidding process
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.
South Korean Olympic football captain quizzed in fixing scandal
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.
Chinese billionaire invests £50 million to boost football infrastructure
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.
FA urged to engage with FIFA by select committee report
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.
Select Committee calls for FIFA to reform bidding processes
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.
Fenerbahce President arrested in Turkish match fixing probe
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.
Tottenham apply for public grant to redevelop White Hart Lane
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.