By Andrew Warshaw at the Inside World Football Forum in Moscow
June 24 – Alexey Sorokin, the head of Russia’s 2018 World Cup organisers, insisted today that his country had no idea they had prematurely won the vote back in December despite reports at the time that they knew about the landslide victory well before FIFA President Sepp Blatter opened the proverbial envelope.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Inside World Football Forum in Moscow
June 24 – Brazil’s preparations for the 2014 World Cup came under attack today from FIFA general secretary Jérôme Valcke, who warned the five-time winners of the tournament were lagging behind schedule and were not the best model for 2018 hosts Russia to copy.
Disgraceful, scandalous, unbelievable. Just three of the adjectives that have been used over the past few days – and rightly so – to describe FIFA’s decision to close the case against Jack Warner despite overwhelming evidence that their most senior vice-president played a prominent part in world football’s biggest bribery scandal.
Who on earth were FIFA trying to kid by dropping their investigation into the hopelessly tarnished Warner and allowing him to withdraw from football by praising his contribution and inserting that now-infamous phrase,
By David Gold in Moscow
June 23 – Key delegates from the world of sport will gather here from this evening for the Inside World Football Moscow Forum, with FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke the keynote speaker for the event.
By Andrew Warshaw in Moscow
June 23 – FIFA general-secretary Jerome Valcke, cleared of any wrongdoing over comments he made about Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bid, will once again be the centre of attention when he makes the keynote address tomorrow to the inaugural Inside World Football Moscow forum here in the Russian capital.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 22 – Damning evidence emerged today that Jack Warner resigned as FIFA’s most senior vice-president·because he was about to be found guilty for his role in the biggest ever bribery scandal to hit football’s world governing body – and that Asian football chief Mohamed Bin Hammam was equally culpable.
By David Gold
June 21 – A report by University of Barcelona professor José Maria Gay into the state of Spanish football finances shows that debt in La Liga has reached €3.5 billion (£3.1 billion/$5.1 billion), as the league’s President confirmed plans to control spending.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 21 – Jack Warner resigned from FIFA for fear of being banned for life and having his political career wrecked in the process, according to reliable sources close to world football’s biggest ever bribery scandal.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 20 – Jack Warner sensationally resigned today as FIFA’s longest serving vice-president in the wake of the most explosive bribery scandal in the organisation’s history.
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By David Gold
June 20 – Alisher Usmanov has increased his shareholding in Arsenal Football Club to over 29 per cent, his company Red & White Holdings has confirmed in a statement to the London Stock Exchange.
By David Gold
June 19 – FIFA has suspended Belize from international football and postponed its World Cup qualifier with Montserrat this weekend, as a result of perceived Government interference with the country’s football federation.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 17 – European football’s governing body broke new ground today when it appointed a woman as a member of its decision-making Executive Committee.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 17 – European football’s governing body today gave FIFA three months to clean up its act and implement “concrete” changes following the recent spate of bribery allegations.
By David Gold
June 17 – A number of new speakers have been confirmed for the Inside World Football Moscow Forum, including Valentin Gapanovich (pictured), the senior vice-president of the Russian Railways, who will be giving a presentation at the event.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 17 – Winning next year’s European Championship in Poland and Ukraine could be worth up to €23.5 million (£20.7 million/$33.6 million)) if the eventual victors end up with a 100 per cent record in six straight games.