By Andrew Warshaw
June 4 – Jim Boyce, Britain’s new FIFA vice-president, says anyone found guilty of corruption should be thrown out of the organisation and that he will not be afraid to stand up and say it.
By Tom Degun
June 3 – Mike Lee, the former communications director of London 2012, has written a letter to a Parliamentary inquiry making a series of key recommendations on how the Football Association in England can improve their impoverished international standing in world football.
By David Gold
June 3 – English Championship side Portsmouth has a fourth new owner in just two years after Convers Sports Initiatives, an organisation owned by Russian businessman Vladimir Antonov, was given the green light by the Football League to complete a £17 million ($28 million) takeover.
By David Gold
June 3 – Fox Soccer has agreed a deal with Endemol to show the Dublin Super Cup exclusively in the United States and Canada in the next three years.
By David Gold
June 3 – Luciano Moggi, the former Juventus general manager who was involved in the 2006 Calciopoli match-fixing scandal which rocked Italian football, should be sentenced to five years in jail, according to the public prosecutor.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 2 – Jim Boyce, Britain’s new FIFA vice-president, says the English Football Association must start a new tactic of building bridges following the failed attempt to force a postponement of yesterday’s FIFA Presidential election.
By David Gold
June 2 – 1860 Munich has been saved from insolvency by a Jordanian investor, who has bought 49 per cent of the German side.
By Tom Degun
June 1 – Mike Lee, the former communications director of London 2012 and arch-strategist behind a series of successful World Cup and Olympic bids, has written a letter to the English Football Association on how to improve their impoverished international standing in world football.
By David Gold
June 1 – A Qatari investment company has bought 70 per cent of Ligue 1 outfit Paris St. Germain from the club’s current owners, Colony Capital.
By Andrew Warshaw in Zurich
June 1 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (pictured), head of the European Club Association (ECA) that represents the interests of every major professional club throughout the continent, has called for a complete overhaul of how FIFA is governed.
By David Gold
May 31 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter has taken a break from defending world football’s governing body from public criticism and bribery allegations to confirm that Bosnia has had a suspension preventing it from competing in international football lifted.
By David Gold at the SPONSORs Sports Summit in Dusseldorf
May 19 – The case of Karen Murphy, the pub owner in Portsmouth whom a European judge ruled could use a Greek decoder to reduce the costs of showing live Premier League television to her customers, was discussed by Wolfsburg managing director Thomas Rottgerman (pictured) here today.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 17 – Julian Eccles quit today as marketing and communications director of the English Football Association, another blow to the image of the organisation in the wake of its failed 2018 World Cup bid.
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By David Gold
May 16 – Football’s governing body FIFA and UEFA, the most powerful regional confederation, are to contest a legal ruling preventing them from charging supporters to view World Cup and European Championship games.
By David Gold
May 16 – More than 120 Spartak Moscow supporters were arrested after a riot during their match against Krylia Sovetov Samara in the Russian Premier League.