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The new UEFA concept of Financial Fair Play is blurry and mounts the risk of court cases, according to leading sport economic, Professor Stefan Szymanski from the CASS Business School in London. Others do not see any good...[more]

An attempt by Premier League representatives to cut three quarters of the funding for Supporters Direct (SD) after a row over inappropriate remarks by the chief executive of the fan-ownership group is developing into a major UK...[more]

Egyptian football fans, emboldened by their role in protests that deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after 30 years in office, are seeking to alter the politics of their country’s beautiful game.[more]

Football matches are but one battle fought on the pitches of North Africa. The other is the struggle for the region’s future.[more]

The European social dialogue between the continent's top football clubs and players could be extended to other sports but will not be widened to include fans.[more]

There is much talk about the weather these days, as it is – as usual – behaving out of the ordinary. There are two ways to approach extreme weather. One is climate initiatives, and the other is to adapt to the weather conditions....[more]

The latest edition of the Football Top 20 report from consultants Sport + Markt claims that nearly 250 million people aged between 16 and 69 in Europe follow the sport, generating a football market worth up to €12 billion.[more]

Can one say that Ghana is Africa’s team? This is the question Brendan O'Neill poses in the always interesting online magazine Spiked. And it is an important question.[more]

Behind a smooth World Cup tournament buzzes a beehive of volunteers to make sure that everything runs according to plan.[more]

With Islamist militants in Somalia killing two world cup fans and arresting many others over the weekend, transitional federal government (TFG) of Somalia on Tuesday condemned the move describing it unacceptable.[more]