Qatar are expected to escape any censure that would threaten the Middle Eastern state hosting the 2022 tournament.

Germany’s FIFA member believes the 2022 World Cup will be moved from Qatar due to the extreme temperatures.

Malky Mackay should face a season-long ban from football for the offensive texts he sent to a former colleague at Cardiff, according to ex-Football Association chairman Lord Triesman.

Sepp Blatter has fought back against UEFA, claiming attacks from Football Association chairman Greg Dyke and other European officials were the “most disrespectful” thing he has ever experienced.

The Football Association has proposed that from next season anyone involved in the top eight tiers of the English league system will be subject to a worldwide betting ban.

FIFA’s chief ethics investigator says his assistant will lead the review of the Russian and American bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to avoid any conflict of interest.

Former FA chairman Lord Triesman believes black players feel let down by the governing body’s handling of the John Terry racism case.

A report by FIFA’s anti-corruption adviser today criticised past investigations by the governing body, but stopped short of calling for probes into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup to be reopened.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has announced a new body to investigation corruption.

Former Football Association chairman Lord Triesman has welcomed the decision to strip John Terry of the England captaincy while he is facing allegations of racist abuse, insisting it is the same sanction any other public figure would face.

Henry Kissinger is mulling over an offer from FIFA president Sepp Blatter to form part of a team investigating problems within the governing body.

SEPP BLATTER was re-elected as president of FIFA yesterday after the FA’s attempt to block the vote ended in heavy defeat and vengeful recriminations.

Sepp Blatter has been re-elected as president of FIFA after the Football Association’s attempt to block the vote ended in defeat and recriminations.

England came under a sustained attack from critics within FIFA after the Football Association’s attempt to have the presidential election postponed ended in a heavy defeat.

The Football Association’s bid to postpone the FIFA presidential election ended in a heavy defeat today.

Major sponsors Coca-Cola have described the ongoing controversy surrounding FIFA as “distressing and bad for the sport” as the saga rumbles on.

SEPP BLATTER last night admitted FIFA faced “difficulties” but insisted: “Crisis? What crisis?”

Sepp Blatter tonight admitted FIFA faced “difficulties” but insisted: “Crisis? What crisis?”

FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke confirmed today that an email he sent suggesting the 2022 World Cup was “bought” was genuine – but insisted he was referring to Qatar using their “financial strength” to legitimately lobby for votes.

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.

TWO of football’s most powerful figures have been accused of handing over bundles of US dollar bills in the most serious corruption crisis that FIFA have ever faced.

FIFA’s corruption crisis deepened today after a dramatic announcement that vice-president Jack Warner and presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam have been charged with offering bribes for votes.

The whistleblower at the centre of World Cup bid bribery allegations has agreed to come to FIFA to give evidence in person, Sepp Blatter said today.

THE Football Association should offer to abandon their historic FIFA privileges in return for reform of the world governing body, according to the MP who blew the lid off the latest World Cup bribery scandal.

FIFA’s leaders today expressed “extreme concern” at the latest allegations of World Cup bidding corruption and have asked the Football Association to provide a full report of the claims.

Mohamed Bin Hammam, the FIFA presidential candidate who secured the 2022 World Cup for Qatar, today denied claims the country paid bribes for votes.

British sports minister Hugh Robertson today called on FIFA to implement a wholesale reform of their World Cup bidding process after the latest allegations of corruption.

FIFA have tried to mount a damage-limitation exercise after shocking new allegations of World Cup bid corruption.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said his own conscience is clear after new allegatsions of bribery rocked the organisation today.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has promised to address the latest allegations of bribery within the organisation.

New allegations that two FIFA executive committee members were paid $1.5m (€1m) to vote for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup bid emerged today.

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore has ruled out a cut in the size of the top flight and said that UEFA and FIFA have to make space for any winter break.

Premier League chairman Dave Richards today claimed ex-FA chairman Lord Triesman was the man responsible for agreeing a new deal with England manager Fabio Capello – and insisted that he had just been left to “pick up the pieces”.

The fit and proper person test aimed at preventing unsuitable people becoming owners and directors of football clubs is deeply flawed, according to ex-FA chairman Lord Triesman.

David Bernstein has been appointed as the new chairman of the Football Association, it was announced today.

Future FIFA vice-president Jim Boyce has called for the secret vote for World Cups to be scrapped.

Football Association chief executive Alex Horne insists he will push for reform in the World Cup bidding process.

Russia’s 2018 World Cup bid leader has highlighted London’s “high crime rate” and youth alcohol problems in an interview which appears to contravene FIFA’s bidding rules prohibiting comments about rival bidders.

FABIO CAPELLO has provided England with the perfect World Cup boost by committing his future to the team until after Euro 2012.

FABIO CAPELLO has confirmed he knows the names of the players who will carry England’s World Cup hopes in South Africa – and they are the same ones he had in mind when he arrived in Austria a fortnight ago.

FIFA will not pursue any further investigations into the Lord Triesman scandal, the world governing body announced today.

GARY LINEKER has quit his column in the Mail on Sunday following the paper’s publication of a secretly recorded conversation in which FA chairman Lord Triesman’s accused the Spanish and Russian football federations of bribery.

UEFA PRESIDENT Michel Platini has waded into the Lord Triesman controversy by offering his support to the peer who was forced to resign as chairman of the FA and England’s 2018 World Cup bid after secret recordings were published.

FIFA want a speedy investigation to ensure Lord Triesman’s recorded claims about corruption in football are just “crazy allegations”, the world governing body’s general secretary Jerome Valcke said today.