Healing power: club of the week

Chelsea – making a social difference this winter by: a) Auctioning two tickets and a shirt for charity, helping to use "the power of football … to raise money for vulnerable communities". John Terry: "It really will make a massive difference." b) Paying 0% tax on their £1.4m profit. Club accounts show offsetting profits against historic £600m losses will keep the club corporation tax-free for decades.

• Also from the accounts, released last week: £481,468 – Chelsea's spending on wages, per day.

Campaigner of the week

Silvio Berlusconi: renewing his attack on the "uncivilised, heinous" racists who targeted his Milan players at Pro Patria on 3 January, and renewing his political ties with the hard-right Northern League, days after their councillor Riccardo Grittini resigned over his alleged part in the chanting. Grittini denies wrongdoing.

• Also from the ongoing Pro Patria fallout: local mayor and Northern League politician Antonio Balzarotti giving a telephone interview on the subject, in which he condemned the racist chanting. After the interview, Balzarotti forgot to hang up and was recorded asking a colleague incredulously: "So now it's a crime to boo a black?"

Football family: man of the week

2012: Fifa executive Ricardo Teixeira resigns after 23 years of denying "pathetic" press corruption allegations, two months before it emerged in court that he had taken "at least" £8.4m in bribes.

2013: Starts receiving his Fifa pension – a reported £20,000 a year. Brazilian paper O Estado de S. Paulo says the sum will "top up" his £35,000-a-month "consultancy fee" from Brazil's FA.

Financial fair play news

4: Months between Uefa confirming all top clubs have signed up to the spirit of the new financial fair play rules, and the Qatar-owned PSG signing a £570m sponsorship deal with Qatar's tourist board. PSG's Nasser al-Khelaifi says they need the money for transfers to stay competitive. "Why must we stop pouring in money? It would be unfair."

Hard times

December: Birmingham director Peter Pannu reveals the club has to cut nonessential costs to avoid administration, with player sales likely to "maintain the cash flow".

January: Pannu tells the Birmingham Mail that the £687,611 shown as his salary in the club's new accounts was misleading – with only £250,000 for him, and the rest "pocket expenses" for his Hong-Kong based staff.

Moving on

Among January's exits so far:

• Russia, 5 Jan: Kuban Krasnodar director Suren Mkrtchyan dismisses press talk about coach Yuri Krasnozhan – "I don't comment on rumours, only on facts, so I don't need to comment on this" – and says claims of an internal rift with Krasnozhan are "deserving of a psychiatrist". 8 Jan: Sacks him.

• Portugal: 18 Dec: Sporting president Godinho Lopes attacks claims that his decision to hire Jesualdo Ferreira as a general manager means the end for coach Franky Vercauteren. "Of course not. They will blend together." Vercauteren: "I'm staying 200%. I spoke to the president and the message is clear: we're true to each other, and that's all that matters." 8 Jan: Vercauteren sacked; Ferreira takes over.

One to watch

Croatia: Dinamo Zagreb owner Zdravko Mamic: pledging a cooler 2013, with no more of his trademark threats to critics, including "I'll maul you, you donkeys" and "I'll beat you like cats": "So far I've been good, calm, backed off agitating situations. I'm serious. You'll see how mature I am."

Ruse of the week

Brazil: Palmeiras officials, attending a ceremony with league sponsors General Motors, but "gracefully declining" their offer of a free Chevrolet Cruze out of respect to the club's own sponsors, rival car firm Kia. Local media: "However, when everyone had left, the officials returned discreetly to claim their gift – only to be discovered when they then crashed it into a Ford Fiesta in the car park." President Arnaldo Tirone: "We barely hit it, but everyone saw. It's distressing."

Masseur of the week

Brazil: Santos youth-team masseur Biro-Biro says his solo pitch invasion after being sent to the stands for abusing a referee was a "cause of regret". Reports say Biro-Biro "raised eyebrows among the boys" by running on to the pitch carrying two balls, kicking one into his own team's net, then "glaring". Biro-Biro: "We were all unbalanced that day."

Plus: endorsement of the week

Steaua owner, MP and ex-MEP Gigi Becali, asked by Romania TV about his appearances in Said & Done: "God inspires me to say what I say, the British have no idea. It's just some crazy Brits from the Guardian [who quote you] if you talk about sex, prostitutes, tits … They're a satanic newspaper. They ridicule all that's pure and holy."