A look at some of the top tweets from '14.
FIFA President SEPP BLATTER: "Eusebio was a football & FIFA ambassador. He’ll be sorely missed. Rest in peace Black Panther."
Daily Telegraph's PAUL HAYWARD: ""Forbidden zone" and 30,000 soldiers/police in Sochi. New 500-strong anti-riot unit planned for Brazil. 2014: a dystopian year in sport?"
AP's ROB HARRIS: "Problem w/Valcke etc speaking out on Qatar off-message is the confusion it creates for @fifamedia which has an official line to push on 2022"
London Guardian's OWEN GIBSON: "Former IOC president Jacques Rogge gets some sort of gong from Blatter. The gnomic Belgian remains impassive as ever."
Yahoo!'s CHARLES ROBINSON: "Apparently Sochi is indeed poisoning stray dogs and that's what I stumbled upon this morning. A pretty disturbing scene. Large dogs, too."
Payne Sports Media Strategies CEO & Chair MICHAEL PAYNE: "Germans clearly on a roll to control world sport. Bach, IOC Boss, now Bokel re-elected as Chair IOC Athletes' Commission. FIFA next ?"
NBC Sports' NICK ZACCARDI: "Two days before competition, and the headlines are still stray dogs, toilets and media hotels."
London Guardian's DAVID CONN: "Manchester United now spent £686m on debt, interest etc since Glazer's takeover in 2005. Huge money, dwarfs their spending on players #mufc"
Golfweek's ALISTAIR TAIT: "Just had email from my brother in Canada. Pubs opened at 6am for Olympic hockey final. That's what hockey means to Canada. #loveicehockey"
London Times' OLIVER KAY: "Has been clear from the start that World Cup bid process stank to high heaven. Proving it is a different matter. Media try. Fifa? Less so."
The PA's MARTYN ZIEGLER: "UCI president Brian Cookson tells me IOC should look at radical changes + track cycling, judo, badminton possibly going to winter Olympics"
London Independent's ASHLING O'CONNOR: "Glad to see R&A has finally accepted the inevitable. That women do exist and do play golf. Hope their members agree"
Bloomberg's TARIQ PANJA: "5 of the 7 construction related deaths at World Cup stadiums have happened since November amid rush to finish delayed projects."
U.K. Minister For Sport HELEN GRANT: "On £90 England #football shirts for fans, it's not right. Loyal supporters are the bedrock of our national game - pricing needs a rethink."
London Daily Mirror's OLIVER HOLT: "A Rooney Rule equivalent is long overdue in English football. Need something to drag us towards a fairer system for all"
Sports Illustrated's RICHARD DEITSCH: "Gareth Bale with a $127 million goal."
Retired English cricketer MICHAEL VAUGHAN: "If you are going to sack someone at least have the decency to tell them first rather than leak it.Poor from whoever it was at United.#Moyes"
BBC presenter GARY LINEKER: "Utterly brilliant reaction from Alves. Treat the racist berk with complete disdain!"
New York Times' SAM BORDEN: "Well. OK. Not sure how you say "butt-whooping" in German but some fans are already heading for the exits and it's still the first half."
