The Way I See It

It was about 20 minutes into The Preliminary Draw for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ that it became clear you would need a passion for consuming large amounts of mostly meaningless data or an in-depth knowledge of Brazilian music to get much out of it.

The Premier League is on course to use goal-line cameras in all its grounds in 12 months' time, its chief executive, Richard Scudamore, said yesterday. Providing that Fifa approves the technology when it is tested in March, Scudamore said there would be no barrier to introducing it for the 2012-13 season.

Goal-line technology could be used in the Premier League as early as the start of the 2012-13 season.

FIFA will make a final decision on goal-line technology in March, according to president Sepp Blatter.

Beleaguered Fifa president Sepp Blatter denied he ran Fifa like a dictatorship yesterday but refused to make any comment on his former ally Mohamed bin Hammam, who was banned from football for life on Saturday on corruption charges.

The 2014 World Cup finals will start on June 12 and finish on July 13, FIFA announced today.

Copa America winners Uruguay have moved up to fifth in the new FIFA World Rankings, their highest ever position and a move of 13 places from the last published list.

England face the possibility that they might have to play France in the qualifying groups for the 2014 World Cup finals, which are drawn on Saturday night in Brazil.

FIFA have given all 25 Caribbean associations 48 hours to provide statements about the events at the meeting in Trinidad which led to Mohamed Bin Hammam being banned for life for bribery.

Qatar no doubt has admirable qualities even if you're not crazy about the drinking laws and those which make gay rights seem like they belong to another planet

Mohamed bin Hammam has dismissed his life ban from football as being imposed by a "kangaroo court" and described the sentence as an act of revenge for his attempt to challenge Sepp Blatter for the Fifa presidency.