UEFA’s chief executive Lars-Christer Olsson has claimed the G14 group of top Europe clubs still harbour ambitions of breaking away from the Champions League.

UEFA chief executive Lars-Christer Olsson insists European football’s governing body will not be forced into talks with the G14, accusing the controversial group of “creating the conditions for a war”.

EUROPEAN football’s governing body UEFA is to investigate the use of two referees in matches amid increasing claims of players faking injury.

UEFA chief executive Lars-Christer Olsson fears European football could be “taken hostage” by a criminal element if it fails to rewrite its rule book. He hopes an Independent Review of European Football, launched in London yesterday, will trigger the much-needed changes.

UEFA’s plan for Thierry Henry and Luis Aragones to put on a united front at an anti-racism conference next year appears doomed to failure.

Arsenal’s Thierry Henry is being urged by UEFA to meet Luis Aragones, the Spain coach who was fined €3,000 for calling him a “black ****”.

UEFA has warned clubs they could be banned from European and domestic competitions if they fail to control racist behaviour.

UEFA have vowed that no stone will be left unturned in their planned clean-up of European football.

UEFA’s determination to stage the European Championships in a former Warsaw Pact country was underlined today as Turkey and Greece were eliminated from the race to host Euro 2012.

UEFA chief executive Lars-Christer Olsson believes Italy’s bid to stage the 2012 European championships will survive the cut in November.

BSkyB and ITV will continue to screen Champions League games in the three seasons from 2006 to 2009, UEFA have announced.

ARSENAL vice-chairman David Dein had seen it all before but the media scrum that followed yesterday’s Champions League draw was such a daunting experience for Thun president Kurt Weder that he decided to slip away quietly.

Liverpool will be the poor relations of the English clubs in the Champions League next season.

Protesting Manchester United fans stormed in to disrupt a UEFA meeting today to demand that European football’s rulers block Malcolm Glazer’s takeover.

UEFA will this week take the first steps towards toughening up the penalties for national sides, clubs and players who misbehave and are set to move towards a system where points deductions and match forfeits will become regular punishments.

UEFA chief executive Lars-Christer Olsson on Monday claimed a decision over whether Liverpool will be permitted to defend their Champions League title could be made before the executive committee convenes on June 17.

Liverpool’s hopes of playing in the Champions League next season are still alive despite UEFA’s insistence England can have a maximum of four teams in Europe’s elite club competition.

The Football Association has vowed to carry on the fight for Liverpool to be allowed to defend the Champions League title if they beat AC Milan and win the trophy in Istanbul.

SAMI HYYPIA has delivered a damning verdict on the poor attitude which is wrecking Liverpool’s chances of Champions League football next season.

After months of deliberation and fine-tuning, UEFA were finally putting pen to paper on their controversial homegrown player quotas today.

Clubs could be deducted points or even kicked out of Europe in a throwback to Heysel under a new get-tough policy starting next season, UEFA announced today.

UEFA chief executive Lars-Christer Olsson has warned clubs they will be held responsible if coaches make deliberately provocative comments following Chelsea’s involvement in the retirement of referee Anders Frisk.

CHELSEA chief executive Peter Kenyon emerged from peace talks with one of UEFA’s top officials yesterday insisting the club had many friends around Europe.

JOSE MOURINHO is many things. Undoubtedly he is arrogant, a man not prone to shy from a fight.

Jose Mourinho has promised to take legal action against UEFA referees’ chief Volker Roth unless he retracts the claim that Chelsea’s manager is “an enemy of football”.

UEFA’s most senior official last night delivered a stinging rebuke clearly aimed at Jose Mourinho in the wake of the decision by referee Anders Frisk to retire following death threats from Chelsea fans.

UEFA has stepped up attempts to eradicate match-fixing in football by signing a memorandum of understanding with betting company Betfair.

UEFA yesterday launched the first move towards using video technology to judge if a ball has crossed the goalline.

UEFA are to investigate whether video technology should be brought in to help match officials judge whether the ball has crossed the goal-line.

UEFA are to unveil formal proposals for "home-grown" players on Thursday in an attempt to limit the influence of foreign players in domestic football.

CHELSEA boss Jose Mourinho has faxed a letter to UEFA pleading with them not to punish his old club Porto after he was spat at by a visiting fan at Stamford Bridge.

Europe’s leading clubs today reacted cautiously to a UEFA proposal to limit the number of foreign players in major leagues.

THE organisers of Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland have dropped plans to use a new football stadium in Zurich after a long-running battle with environmentalists in the Swiss city.

UEFA will consider introducing strict new rules on club sponsors to avoid possible conflicts of interest once they have completed an investigation into any connections between Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and their Champions League opponents CSKA Moscow.

UEFA chiefs today admitted that the performance of the ‘Big Five’ countries in Euro 2004 may have been adversely affected by the number of foreign players in their top leagues.

The Football Association are at loggerheads with UEFA after Europe’s football chiefs insisted they would have to take responsibility for the behaviour of all England fans in Portugal.

FAI CEO Fran Rooney yesterday said he believed a major UEFA final in Dublin would be worth up to €50m to the economy.

UEFA’s new chief executive Lars-Christer Olsson has warned that clubs with large debts face being banned from the Champions League and UEFA Cup.

AMERICAN anti-doping chiefs revealed last night that a new anabolic steroid, which up until now has escaped all known doping controls, has been found in the test samples of several American athletes.

EUROPEAN soccer bosses, assessing Ireland's joint bid to host Euro 2008, yesterday said they were "very happy" with the facilities inspected in Dublin last week.

The Euro 2008 UEFA inspection team insist they have no doubts Ireland will be able to provide two stadia as part of the joint bid with Scotland for the Championships.