May 10 – Clubs relegated from the Premier League will receive £48 million ($71 million) in parachute payments over four years after Football League chairmen voted in favour of the proposal.
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By Andrew Warshaw
May 10 – Australian World Cup officials left for FIFA headquarters today confident that they have solved a long-running dispute should the country win the right to stage the 2018 or 2022 event.
By Andrew Warshaw in London
May 9 – Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore (pictured) insists his organisation is fully behind England’s 2018 World Cup bid as the next crucial stage in the process approaches.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
May 9 – West Ham United have received encouragement that they will be able to take over the £537 million ($795 million) Olympic Stadium after the London 2012 Games from Ed Warner, the chairman of UK Athletics, who has claimed that their proposal is “very credible”.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 8 – Liverpool’s new chairman Martin Broughton insists the club will not be forced into selling Fernando Torres (pictured) or captain Steven Gerrard in order to cut the club’s debts.
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May 7 – Mexico has thrown its support behind the United States bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup and urged the rest of the region to back it.
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By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
May 7 – Togo have had their ban from the next two editions of the African Cup of Nations lifted after a mediation hearing today chaired by FIFA President Sepp Blatter, it has been announced.
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By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
May 6 – Billionaire Alisher Usmanov (pictured), the second biggest shareholder at Premier League Arsenal, is to financially help Russia’s bid to host the 2018 of 2022 World Cup, it was announced today.
May 6 – Manchester United are to play a high-profile exhibition match to inaugurate Kansas City’s 77,000-capacity New Arrowhead Stadium, which could be a host venue if the United States is chosen to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, it has been announced.
By Andrew Warshaw in Portsmouth
May 6 – The future of debt-ridden English club Portsmouth looks likely to be secure despite the club being hit with a new claim for unpaid tax.
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May 6 – Holland and Belgium’s bid book for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup that will be presented to FIFA in Zurich next week has today been handed over to the Prime Ministers of the two country’s at a special ceremony in Antwerp.
May 6 – Cisco has signed-up as the official information technology network hardware partner for Australia’s bid for the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, it has been announced.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
May 5 - Jack Warner, the FIFA vice-president, has written to the head of Trinidad and Tobago’s police demanding they investigate allegations the Government is bankrolling British investigative journalist Andrew Jennings to discredit him ahead of the country’s elections later this month.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
May 5 – Australia still does not know where it will hold the World Cup final if they are awarded the tournament in 2018 or 2022, they admitted today as the uncertainty over whether the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) will be included as part of its bid continued.
May 5 – Qatar’s bid to host the 2022 World Cup has been boosted after $20 billion (£13 billion) was set aside for tourism investment.