Mohamed Bin Hammam has claimed the cash given to members of the Caribbean Football Union during his campaign for the FIFA presidency was simply payment to cover their expenses as he launched a stinging attack on the governing body for his life ban.

Brazil’s slow pace of preparation for the 2014 World Cup has come under attack from FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke.

Police escorted the woman who accuses South Africa’s former deputy president of rape past a crowd of his supporters and of women’s rights activists today for his second appearance on rape charges.

CZECH police yesterday charged three more referees in the widening bribery scandal that has rocked the country’s top soccer league.

Belgian Jacques Rogge has won the race for the Presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after beating off the challenge of South Korea’s Kim Un-Yong to succeed the retiring Juan Antonio Samaranch.