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Tension in Bahrain might lead to cancellation of the Formula One Grand Prix

11 April 2012

Mounting trouble in the Gulf state might mean a cancellation of the Formula One Grand Prix next weekend. Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone said yesterday that the racing teams will have the final say over whether the Bahrain...[more]




FIFPro publishes Black Book on Eastern Europe

13 February 2012

The World Players Union (FIFPro) has published a new report on the working conditions for Eastern European football players, who must struggle every day with lacking salary payments, violence, racism and match-fixing.[more]




Egypt football violence and its significance for the revolution

02 February 2012

In the biggest disaster in Egypt’s football history, at least 74 people were killed when rival fans from two of Egypt’s top tier clubs clashed yesterday. On top of the 74 deaths, a great number of people were injured yesterday...[more]




Another year of violence in Argentinean football

24 January 2012

Despite a slight decrease in the number of fatalities, 2011 became a new statement of the violence in Argentinean football and nothing indicates a turn for the better. Javier Szlifman reports on the hooliganism haunting the big...[more]




The sports press: the “active mirror”

13 July 2010

Are the media giving racist supporters an additional and wider stage by offering them exposure? Or are the media merely reporting facts and mirroring society? Rosarita Cuccoli, Secretary General of the International Association...[more]




The bloody mess in rugby

02 September 2009

In August it was announced that rugby would be up for election as an Olympic sport at the Olympic Congress in October. But the joy this announcement caused in the world of rugby has been replaced with worries as a series of...[more]




Hockey Culture in Canada: Same Old same Old

05 November 2008

In 2004 North Americans a bizarre story began to unfold when police arrested NHL player Mike Danton after a play-off game on conspiracy to murder charges. What we heard became nearly theatre of the absurd in a tale that...[more]




EFJ condemns Romanian Football Federation for ignoring violence against journalists

17 September 2008

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) is backing a formal complaint to UEFA against the Romanian Football Federation (FRF) and its president Mircea Sandu, after the football federation allegedly encouraged footballers to...[more]




Argentina bans visiting supporters amid escalating football violence

10 August 2007

Football is unsafe in the FIFA senior vice-president’s country. Violence seems unstoppable in Argentina’s most popular sport and the latest fight took a victim outside a stadium, when a local supporter killed a visiting fan,...[more]




Feyenoord questions whether a club can be responsible for hooligans

31 January 2007

The behaviour of violent fans at a match in Nancy last November, has cost the Dutch club Feyenoord its place in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup after UEFA's Appeals Body decided to exclude the Rotterdam team from all UEFA competitons this...[more]




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