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Play the Game Newsletter for 24 May 2007
| - Platini wants to keep lawyers out of football
- Internaitonal criticism of China and threat of 2008 Olympics boycott
- Fans given the chance to buy football club for less than the cost of a ticket
- Australian government bans cricket team from Zimabwe
- Premier League drags YouTube to court
- Confusion reigns in Kenyan football as parallel meetings fail to resolve split
- News in brief
| Platini wants to keep lawyers out of football UEFA president, Michel Platini, is calling for less judicial interference in sport. His comments are reinforced by four of Europe’s team sport federations and the UK sports minister, all backing the European white paper on sport’s proposals for less legal interference in sport. | International criticism of China and threat of 2008 Olympics boycott Intense criticism has surrounded China’s planned route for the Olympic Torch relay prior to Beijing 2008. Human rights groups have also slammed China’s human rights record, their voices joined by US politicians who oppose China’s alleged sale of arms to Sudan. | Fans given the chance to buy football club for less than the cost of a ticket Supporters can now buy their own football club and manage it their own way. MyFootballClub is a new initiative aiming at giving fans responsibility for decision making. | Australian government bans cricket team from Zimbabwe Australian Prime Minister John Howard has banned the national cricket team from their upcoming three-match tour of Zimbabwe. The ban has now placed increased pressure on the International Cricket Council to suspend links with Zimbabwe. | Premier League drags YouTube to court Millions of pounds are in the pool when the Premier League and YouTube take their fight to court. Claiming that YouTube has violated copyright law, the Premier League hopes to get a lucrative deal. YouTube says that the Premier League has misunderstood the law. | Confusion reigns in Kenyan football as parallel meetings fail to resolve the split Confusion surrounding the Kenyan Football Federation intensified, as two parallel annual general meetings (AGM) were held last weekend. They failed to resolve the struggle for Kenyan football dominance – facing a new warning from FIFA. | News in brief First female Olympic chairman in Norway; Jennings exposes secret FIFA document; Third WADA world conference on doping in sport; Founding of Football for Development and Peace; and Sport ands technology conference in London. | |
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