FIFA has announced that Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has returned a €21,700 watch he was given as a gift.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has insisted the investigation into 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding will not be reopened despite the world governing body lodging a criminal complaint with the Swiss attorney general over "suspected unlawful activity" of unnamed individuals connected with the bidding contests.

FIFA has lodged a criminal complaint with the Swiss attorney general over “possible misconduct” by individuals in connection with the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

Franz Beckenbauer insisted yesterday he was ready to answer questions from Fifa about an investigation into World Cup bidding by June 27 and believed that should remove any justification for its 90-day ban on him.

FIFA has imposed another life ban on former presidential challenger Mohamed Bin Hammam.

Mohamed bin Hammam has vowed to clear his name after FIFA’s ethics committee opened investigation proceedings against him.

FIFA have announced 16 officials from Caribbean associations have been charged with breaching rules on ethics in the wake of the bribery scandal that saw Mohamed Bin Hammam banned for life.

FIFA today faced calls to re-open the investigation into former vice-president Jack Warner after a secret ethics committee report labelled him “an accessory to corruption”.

There is “comprehensive, convincing and overwhelming” evidence that FIFA member Mohamed Bin Hammam tried to bribe officials during his presidential campaign and that Jack Warner was “an accessory to corruption”, according to a secret report by FIFA’s ethics committee.

Mohamed Bin Hammam has said he will appeal against his suspension from FIFA, according to a statement on his website.

Mohamed bin Hammam has vowed to clear his name when he appears before the FIFA ethics committee later today after withdrawing from the presidential election.

Mohamed bin Hammam has withdrawn from the FIFA presidential election, he has announced in a statement on his website.

Sepp Blatter will appear before FIFA’s ethics committee on Sunday to answer charges that he knew about alleged cash payments, the world governing body announced today.

Mohamed Bin Hammam came out fighting today after being charged by FIFA with offering bribes for votes.

FIFA are investigating allegations that two officials offered to sell their votes in the contest to host the 2018 World Cup.

LORD TRIESMAN’S alleged comments about England’s rival bidders for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup are to come under further scrutiny after football’s world governing body announced last night that the FIFA ethics committee will investigate the statements.

David Triesman's alleged comments about England's rival bidders for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup are to come under further scrutiny after football's world governing body announced this evening that the FIFA ethics committee will investigate the statements.

FIFA’s ethics chiefs are to investigate claims of ’vote-buying’ in a bitter contest for one of the 23 seats on the world governing body’s all-powerful executive committee.