By David Owen
May 27 – One of the leaders of South Korea’s 2022 World Cup bid has said he is keen that rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula should not interfere with attempts to involve North Korea in the bid.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
May 27 – Jack Warner (pictured) claimed today that he is set for a senior role in Trinidad and Tobago’s new Government but that it would not affect his position with FIFA.
By Tom Degun
May 26 – Baroness Margaret Ford, the chair of the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC), has told insideworldfootball that the future of the Olympic Stadium should be finalised by the end of the year and that the final decision will be based on more than who can generate the most income.
May 26 – Bristol City’s plans to build a new stadium at Ashton Vale that would stage matches if England are awarded the 2018 World Cup has been given the go-ahead by local authorities.
May 26 – FIFA plans to release 150,000 World Cup tickets tomorrow, including seats at the opening and final matches for next month’s tournament in South Africa, they announced today.
By Duncan Mackay
British Internet Sports Writer of the Year
May 26 – Frank Lowy (pictured left), the chairman of Football Federation Australia (FFA) and the leader of the country’s bid to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, has come out top as Australia’s richest man for the first time, a new survey published today revealed.
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By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
May 26 – A match between Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica has been proposed to celebrate the re-election of FIFA Executive Committee member Jack Warner (pictured) as an MP in his country’s General Election, which saw a coalition of opposition parties, including Warner’s United National Congress (UNC), sweep to power.
May 26 – Former Liverpool owner David Moores (pictured) has admitted he “hugely regrets selling the club” to George Gillett and Tom Hicks, and called for the Americans to “stand aside” and not “punish the supporters any more”.
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It was just over a year ago that Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA, asked: where is English football’s Franz Beckenbauer?
This was just as FIFA was deciding that the rotation policy was dead and igniting England’s 2018 bid. Blatter’s tone suggested he knew the answer even as he phrased the question. There was no one.
May 24 – Ukraine’s Government have announced a series of tax-breaks for the 2012 European Championships, including on tickets.
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The moment of truth is fast approaching.
On Friday (May 28), 13 UEFA Executive Committee members will gather to select the host country of Euro 2016, the next but one European football championship, at Geneva’s Espace Hippomène.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
May 23 – Former Manchester United star Dwight Yorke (pictured) has been accused of betraying his former Trinidad and Tobago team-mates in the on-going row over unpaid bonuses from the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
May 22 – England 2018 have managed to minimise the damage caused by Lord Triesman’s allegations about World Cup rivals Spain and Russia being involved in bribery, new bid leader Geoff Thompson (pictured) claimed tonight.
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By Duncan Mackay
British Sports Internet Writer of the Year
May 22 – A group of Trinidad and Tobago players, led by Sunderland striker Kenwyne Jones, have held a press conference in Port-of-Spain to warn that they will not give up on trying to get the bonuses they claim they are still owed for playing in the 2006 World Cup.
May 21 – Spain claim that they not taking Lord Triesman’s allegations of a Russian-Spanish match-fixing plot at the World Cup seriously, said the country’s Secretary of State for Sport Jaime Lissavetzky (pictured far left).