As the dust settled on a day of drama, Gianni Infantino sat down to conduct his first press conference as the new President of FIFA and admitted his surprise victory at the Extraordinary Congress hadn’t quite sunk in.

FIFA’s 2015 deficit may weigh in at $108 million (£77 million/€98 million), $78 million more than the budgeted figure of $30 million, as the football body’s crisis continues to take its toll on the bottom-line.

Franz Beckenbauer has been fined and warned by FIFA’s Ethics Committee in relation to the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process.

The mascot for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia will either be a tiger, a cat or a wolf after the country's Sports Ministry revealed the short-list of three today. 

An agreement between the German Football Association (DFB) and the North, Central American and Caribbean Association (CONCACAF) President Jack Warner was drawn up to ensure he would continue their campaign to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup, it has been claimed. 

Top European clubs advocated UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino’s campaign to become FIFA President today, but have again expressed their disagreement with a proposed expansion of the World Cup to 40 teams.

A civil lawsuit filed by the Qatar Football Association (QFA) against former FIFA Executive Committee Theo Zwanziger looks likely to be dismissed after a court in Düsseldorf ruled that his comments, where he called the country a “cancerous growth on world football”, were covered under freedom of expression.

FIFA Presidential candidate Gianni Infantino's idea to hold World Cups across entire regions has been criticised by Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko.

FIFA Presidential candidate Gianni Infantino will explore the possibility of hosting World Cups across entire regions rather than limiting the tournament to one or two countries if he is elected as the head of world football’s governing body.

Russia and Qatar will “cooperate closely” in their respective preparations for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups after Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Thani met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, it has been announced.

China is planning to bid for the 2023 Asian Cup, the continent's flagship football competition, they have announced.

The joint 2018 World Cup bid by The Netherlands and Belgium is to be scrutinised by the FIFA Ethics Committee following allegations of vote buying in Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.

As if FIFA didn’t have enough problems at present, the recently-published television audience report for last year’s World Cup in Brazil gives rise to the question, "Has the governing body’s flagship tournament plateaued out as a global TV phenomenon?"

Concerns have been expressed by the European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) about FIFA's proposal to increase the number of teams in the FIFA World Cup from 32 to 40 following a meeting in Zurich.

Working your way through the 240-page “superseding indictment” unveiled last week by United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch by way of a powerful aftershock to the earthquake that laid waste to the FIFA Congress in May, it would be all too easy to form the view that we should disband FIFA and start all over again with governance of the world’s most popular sport.