Former UEFA president Michel Platini has been detained for questioning by French police over the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

Former Uefa president Michel Platini always opposed the introduction of technology in football because he felt that, once it gained a foothold, it would quickly expand and change the character of the sport altogether.

After years of turmoil for Fifa, Gianni Infantino is this week getting a fresh four-year presidential term to lead world football in relative calm.

At the end of an atrocious year for the Irish football team, results will be off the agenda for a couple of hours at least when Dublin hosts the Euro 2020 draw tomorrow.

Q: So, what’s going on with this UEFA Nations League. Ireland normally play a qualifier or friendly in early September?

Japan’s meeting with Russia at the 2002 World Cup produced one of Eamon Dunphy’s most famous RTÉ moments.

Ex-UEFA president Michel Platini has attacked the "clowns" and "worthless judges" who have banned him from football and told a French magazine that he will eventually be cleared of any criminal wrongdoing.

Diego Maradona's retelling of Argentina's 1986 World Cup victory is a quixotic joy, writes Noel Baker

Its All-Ireland Hurling final week, and Galway is buzzing. How much of the buzz is down to hurling is anybody’s guess. I don’t blame the people, I blame the City

UEFA has announced it has opened a Financial Fair Play investigation into Paris St Germain.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has accused his replacement Gianni Infantino of disrespecting him.

Blatter claims €2m payment to Platini was the repayment of a debt.

FAI chief John Delaney and Ireland team manager Martin O’Neill were among the mourners yesterday at the funeral Mass for Milo Corcoran, a former FAI president who leaves “many, many legacies”.

If Cristiano Ronaldo leads Portugal to victory in the final of Euro 2016, will his career have been more successful than rival Lionel Messi, asks Robert McNamara

Liam Brady once said the best two keepers he played with were also the quietest — Dino Zoff and Pat Jennings. The latter knows the uphill battle facing Northern Ireland this month, but is living proof of what can be achieved punching above their weight.

Michel Platini will resign as Uefa president after failing to overturn his ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which cut his sanction from six to four years.

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Sepp Blatter, the dethroned Fifa president, is preparing to publish a personal account of his near 18 years at the head of football’s world governing body.

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are expected to have their respective eight-year suspensions from all football-related activity upheld this week as FIFA delegates prepare to gather in Zurich to elect a new leader.

The Après Match crew are hitting the road with a new live show that mixes harmless footie fun with skewering satire, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

Goal-line technology will be used at Euro 2016 this summer and in the Champions League from next season after UEFA’s executive committee gave the green light to introducing the system.

Investigation alleges that a core group of 16 players have repeatedly been brought to the attention of the sport’s governing body over suspicions of match-fixing, writes Tom Allnutt

Sepp Blatter’s 40-year Fifa reign came to a humiliating end as he and Michel Platini, the two most powerful men in world football, were banned for eight years by Fifa’s ethics committee for abusing their positions yesterday.

We express our best instincts and hopes — the worst too — through many mediums but few represent the human spirit and human frailty as brightly or as loudly as sport. 

Fifa’s ethics court is expected to ban Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, the scandal-scarred football body’s most powerful leaders, today.

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The Football Association would find it “difficult” to support Michel Platini even if he is cleared by Fifa’s ethics committee this week over the €1.8m payment he received from the world governing body.

Sepp Blatter has written to Fifa’s 209 member associations protesting his innocence and criticising Fifa’s ethics committee for being “tendentious and dangerous” ahead of disciplinary hearings later this week.

Fifa vice president Juan Angel Napout has agreed to be extradited to the US to face charges in the football bribery investigation.

English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke believes significant doubt remains over whether Qatar will actually host the 2022 World Cup, five years on from what he calls “the worst moment in Fifa’s history”.

The crisis at soccer’s global governing body continues to spread as authorities in Germany and Switzerland target banks and national sport associations for financial transactions linked to Fifa.