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Football in Brief: England and Wales face fixture lottery

Fixtures for England and Wales' qualifying campaign will be decided by a Uefa draw in Israel next week after all the nations involved in Group G failed to agree on acceptable dates. A meeting lasting four hours and 45 minutes was held in Zurich yesterday, attended by the England manager Fabio...

Valcke admits anxieties over ruling

• Jérôme Valcke says World Cup blunder could be embarrassing• Alex McLeish joins call for technology after Cup defeatFifa's general secretary, Jérôme Valcke, admits he hopes the decision to rule out goal-line technology does not come back to haunt him in the World...

Fifa rule out goal-line technology

Football's rule-makers shut door on goal-line technology and effectively end any chance of video replays coming into game.

Wolfsburg land Swiss starlet

Wolfsburg have agreed a deal with Nassim Ben Khalifa, who is on the books of Grasshopper Zurich.

Blatter braced for a legacy-defining year

• Swiss to fight for fourth term in office at elections next year• 'I have not finished my mission,' 73-year-old insistsNestling in the snowy hills above Zurich, Fifa's opulent HQ is a long way from the promised atmosphere at a World Cup in South Africa that will go a long way to...

Digger: Bin Hammam calls time on Sepp Blatter

• Two terms is enough for Fifa president, says Hammam• Hammam says his colleagues will propose amendmentSepp Blatter's authority as Fifa president faces its biggest challenge yet, with a move from within the world governing body's executive committee to limit the presidential office to...