By Andrew Warshaw
October 23 – One of the most unique partnerships between a club and its fans has been launched in the Netherlands with Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven effectively going on loan to supporters as part of its commercial shirt deal with online credit company Freo.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 23 – Former English Football Association (FA) chairman Lord Triesman has revealed he received a barrage of antisemitic messages in the aftermath of the John Terry racism case.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 22 – A protest against the suspension of the Egyptian domestic league briefly forced Nigerian players who had arrived for an African Champions league game against Al-Ahly to be holed up in their Cairo hotel.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 22 – The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has banned for life 15 players and officials involved in the country’s long-running match-fixing scandal.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 22 – Jim Boyce, Britain’s FIFA vice-president, has urged UEFA to take the strongest possible action against Serbia as a result of last week’s ugly scenes of racism and provocation in a European under-21 international against England.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 19 – The acting head of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Zhang Jilong, has accused his predecessor Mohamed Bin Hammam of “intimidation tactics” designed to derail the investigation into alleged financial wrongdoing by the one-time most powerful man in Asian football.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 18 – English Football Association (FA) chairman David Bernstein will be forced to resign from the post in May next year after the FA Council refused to change its statutes that would have allowed him to remain in charge beyond his 70th birthday.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 18 – British Sports Minister Hugh Robertson has written to UEFA President Michel Platini demanding “tough sanctions” against Serbia following allegations of provocation and racial abuse meted out to England players and officials during Tuesday’s (October 16) ill-tempered under-21 international.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 17 – Dominic Grieve, Britain’s Attorney General, is applying to have the verdicts of “accidental death” for the 96 fans killed in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster quashed.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 17 – The English Football Association (FA) has reported its Serbian counterparts to UEFA after worrying scenes marred the 2013 Under-21 European Championship playoff fixture between the sides last night.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 16 – The World Cup qualifier between Poland and England was dramatically called off tonight and rescheduled for 5pm local time tomorrow following unrelenting rain that made the £400 million ($646 million/€493 million) national stadium in Warsaw unplayable.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 16 – Egypt’s football association has delayed the rest of the domestic season indefinitely, saying it has not been given sufficient security guarantees by the Government in the wake of the Port Said tragedy.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 16 – Former FIFA Presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam has lodged a fresh appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the latest episode of the long-running saga to clear his name.
By Tom Degun
October 16 – Domenico Scala, the chairman of the FIFA Audit and Compliance Committee, believes the reforms his team are making to football’s world governing body are helping to make it more clear and transparent.
By Tom Degun
October 16 – Manchester United, one of the most popular and successful sports teams in the world, have announced a new three-year partnership with Azerbaijan’s leading telecommunications company Bakcell.