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Sporting Lisbon president Bruno de Carvalho has called for action over offshore funds with financial stakes in football players.
Gareth Bale’s fabulous form for Spurs has made him a prime target for big European clubs
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.
After a series of corruption scandals that has beset Fifa in recent months, its re-elected president, Sepp Blatter, promised to implement reforms.
As the troubled football club drowns in debt, it is now clear the Glazers have reaped a fortune, writes David Conn.
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…
If we were not becoming weirdly accustomed to checking Forbes’s billionaires list whenever a football club announces take-over talks, it would feel more bizarre, freakish even,…
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,…
The offices at the top of a converted warehouse in the Edinburgh port of Leith are a bit of a squeeze. As he talks, Mel Young’s head seems almost in the skylight, but there is no…
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…
What is it about the Newcastle United manager’s job, filled until relatively recently by Willie McFaul, Jim Smith and other domestic gaffers, which has become so overblown that…
With the season of comfort, joy and compulsive over-eating almost upon us, it is sad to report that the troubling case of the Watford Two still rumbles on. Ian Grant and Matthew…
Graham Rix, then, has arrived in the heart of the Romanovs’ ruthless empire, sidestepping the gore on the Tynecastle carpet. Now, after the departure of the former manager George…
A strain of Sol Campbell’s troublesome hamstring, another furrow on Arsene Wenger’s careworn brow, and once again the cry goes up: clubs should be ”compensated” for releasing…
