April 1 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter (pictured) has criticised the amount of debt in the Premier League although he ruled out the introduction of a salary cap as a way of preventing more clubs entering administration.
March 31 – South Africa’s Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana (pictured) and World Cup chief executive Danny Jordaan will hold an urgent meeting tomorrow to discuss local musicians’ anger about why so few local artists will perform at the event.
March 31 – The Premier League fear a controversial Ofcom ruling will lead to the world’s top players, like Manchester City’s Carlos Tevez (pictured), turning their back on England.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
March 31 – Ian Riley (pictured), the technical director of England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup, has laid out what they need to do for its campaign to be successful ahead of other rivals like Russia and Australia.
March 31 - South Korea has revealed more details of its proposal to host matches in North Korea if its bid to host the 2022 World Cup is successful - a plan first revealed on insideworldfootball last December.
March 31 – Australia today announced Qantas as the first major backer of its bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup.
March 30 – Tim Leiweke (pictured right), the President and chief executive, of AEG has joined the Board if Directors of the United States World Cup Bid Committee, it was announced today.
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March 30 - Anyone seeking value-priced accommodation for the upcoming World Cup in South Africa should consider Cape Town, according to a new survey.
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It has been a good couple of weeks for Joseph Blatter, FIFA’s veteran President.
First, FIFA’s ruling Executive Committee rejected a proposal that might have limited the presidency’s mandate to two consecutive terms of four years.
March 30 – Irvin Khoza (pictured), the chairman of the organising committee for this year’s World Cup in South Africa, has denied allegations that he is behind a plot to overthrow the President of the South African Football Association (SAFA) Kirsten Nematandani.
March 30 – Indonesia’s President today opened a national football conference reviewing the poor results of the national team and the country’s top football official.
March 29 - UEFA President Michel Platini warned today that Ukraine was still in danger of losing the right to host Euro 2012 because of the slow pace of stadium construction and its share of matches moved to Germany.
History may not always repeat itself first as tragedy then as farce, as Karl Marx said, but there are some very curious and interesting similarities in the latest attempt to get West Ham into the Olympic Stadium.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
March 27 – England’s campaign to host the 2018 World Cup will not be affected by the shock resignation of Football Association chief executive Ian Watmore, the bid’s chief executive Andy Anson (pictured) claimed today.
March 27 – English football’s super-rich owners, like Sheikh Mansour at Manchester City and Roman Abramovich at Chelsea, face drastic new curbs on their influence under UEFA proposals, according to a report.