David Conn
And now for Europe …
/ 17 May 2012

And now for Europe …

For Manchester City fans, it took 44 years to win a championship but there will be obstacles in their attempts to triumph away, writes David Conn.

Blame the British
/ 3 June 2011

Blame the British

After a series of corruption scandals that has beset Fifa in recent months, its re-elected president, Sepp Blatter, promised to implement reforms.

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/ 26 January 2007

UK soccer: Have-nots want a share option

Members of the Football League’s board have held meetings with the Premier League’s chief executive, Richard Scudamore, to seek a fairer distribution of the Premiership’s booming TV money which, following the £625-million secured last week for overseas rights, will total £2,7-billion over three years from next season.

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/ 24 November 2006

Foreign gold rush

West Ham, that quintessential East End working-class football institution, is to be taken over by an Icelandic consortium and become the fifth Premiership club after Chelsea, Manchester United, Portsmouth and Aston Villa to be majority owned by a foreign investor.

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/ 24 February 2006

Academies left in the lurch by sinking funds

With weekday coaching sessions for boys aged eight to 16, matches against other clubs at the weekends and plenty going on in the school holidays, Leeds Road playing fields Huddersfield Town is a brisk, professional place — and, like all of the Football League’s academies and centres of excellence, currently a worried one, too.