Spartak blame Fenerbahçe fans for cyber attack
By David Gold
August 24 – Spartak Moscow has accused Turkish hackers of targeting their website after they beat Fenerbahçe in a UEFA Champions League qualifier this week.
By David Gold
August 24 – Spartak Moscow has accused Turkish hackers of targeting their website after they beat Fenerbahçe in a UEFA Champions League qualifier this week.
By David Gold
August 24 – La Liga’s new 11pm kick off time has come under attack from all sides following the start of the season.
By David Gold
August 23 – Čedomir Janevski has been appointed coach of the Macedonian national team, just a month ahead of the start of their FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 23 – Antonio Conte, the Juventus coach who lost his appeal against being found guilty of match-fixing, once again protested his innocence today describing the verdict against him as a disgrace.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 23 – A salary cap should be introduced in Russian football to prevent the influx of foreign stars being paid excessive salaries that could fall foul of UEFA’s new Financial Fair Play guidelines.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 22 – Juventus coach Antonio Conte, who went through the whole of last season’s Serie A campaign unbeaten, today lost his appeal against match-fixing when his 10-month suspension was upheld.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 22 – The Cypriot courts have imposed a four-month jail sentence on a fan who invaded the pitch during Anorthosis Famagusta’s Europa League match against Dila Gori of Georgia last month.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 22 – Fresh details have emerged as to how the long-running Spanish broadcasting dispute, which threatened to disrupt the start of the season, was finally settled with a collective deal just prior to the new season.
By David Gold
August 21 – Football clubs using fewer players during the season will pick up better results, according to an analysis of the 2011-2012 season by the CIES Football Observatory.
By David Gold
August 20 – Lord Nimmo Smith has been appointed to chair a Scottish Premier League (SPL) inquiry into player payments at fallen giants Glasgow Rangers.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 20 – Anorthosis Famagusta have been thrown out of this season’s Europa League after crowd trouble forced the abandonment of their home game against Dila Gori at the Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium in Larnaca.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 20 – The continuing fight against match-fixing has snared yet another alleged offender with UEFA banning Maltese international Kevin Sammut for 10 years, effectively spelling the end of the 31-year-old’s career.
By David Gold
August 17 – Macedonian forward Adis Jahović has been given a 10-match ban by the Swiss Football League after telling a referee “if I see you after, I will kill you”.
By David Gold
August 17 – Israel’s national team were forced to use a decoy bus when leaving the Ferenc Puskás Stadium in Budapest after facing Hungary in a friendly this week.
By David Gold
August 16 – Brazil has bid farewell to the famous stadium where they announced their arrival as a world football force at the World Cup in 1958.