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Romanian club calls for ban on CEOs sitting on the subs bench

Cornel Sfaiter

By Jaroslaw Adamowski
August 19 – While Romanian football continues to be rocked by corruption-related scandals, the latest proposal put forward by one of the clubs to introduce more transparency into the Romanian league has sparked controversy. Cornel Sfaiter (pictured), chief executive of Romania’s FC Botosani, has suggested that the chief executives of the clubs competing in the country’s top tier, Liga I, should no longer be allowed to watch matches played by their sides from the subs benches.

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Malawi FA bans ‘home’ journalist for offering inside info-for-cash to Benin

Malawi football fans

August 19 – Revealing instances of match-fixing has become an almost daily occurrence in the media but in Malawi a journalist has been sanctioned for allegedly getting involved in manipulation.

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Legia lose CAS appeal but hold out for financial compensation

Legia Warsaw fans

By Andrew Warshaw
August 19 – Legia Warsaw’s last-ditch attempt to seek what they perceive as sporting justice has failed after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected their bid to be provisionally reinstated in the Champions League, clearing the way for Scottish champions Celtic to take on Maribor on Wednesday in the final playoff round.

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St Petersburg hosts UEFA scrutineers in bid to add 2020 to hosting plans

Zenit Arena plan

August 19 – St Petersburg is looking beyond FIFA World Cup 2018 and this past weekend hosted a UEFA delegation inspecting candidate cities to be one of the 13 host venues for the Euro 2020 tournament.

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India defeats Pakistan 1-0 but real winner could be Pakistan’s economy

India and Pakistan flags

By Mark Baber
August 18 – India defeated Pakistan 1-0 on Sunday in the first match between the two Asian neighbours for nine years. All sporting ties between India and Pakistan were suspended following the 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, with little contact since then other than a one-day cricket series in 2012.

Massimo Cecchini

Massimo Cecchini: La ‘Diversita’ Italiana

Il calcio italiano ha un presidente federale e un commissario tecnico. Voi direte: che cosa c’è di strano? Nulla, eppure tanto. Dopo il progressivo affondamento del movimento che ruota attorno al pallone – materializzatosi nei fallimenti degli ultimi due Mondiali, nel progressivo affondamento nei ranking Fifa e Uefa e nella violenza che la fa da padrone – l’11 agosto l’assemblea federale ha eletto il nuovo presidente della Figc. Come ampiamente previsto, il “nuovo che avanza”

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Sorokin says focus is on delivery of 2018, not on politics

alexei sorokin

By Andrew Warshaw
August 18 – The head of Russia’s 2018 World Cup organising committee has broken his silence over calls in some quarters for the country to be stripped of host status as a result of the widely condemned military and political intervention in Ukraine.

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Transparency International signs on with clubs for match-fixing battle

Frederic Thiriez

August 18 – European leagues have joined forces with the anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International to promote an awareness campaign on how to avoid match-fixing amid concerns that the internet has given the fraudsters more ammunition than ever.

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Infront secures four more years to their package of German sales rights

DFB Cup

August 18 – Infront Sports & Media has signed a four-year deal for the international media distribution rights to World Champions Germany for home friendly matches, as well as the rights to the DFB Cup.

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Blatter puts faith in technology and renews call for video challenges

Sepp Blatter11

By Andrew Warshaw
August 18 – FIFA president Sepp Blatter has renewed his call for managers to each be allowed two tennis-style challenges against contentious officiating decisions during matches. Blatter first made his surprise suggestion during FIFA’s annual congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in June, raising eyebrows among delegates since he had hitherto been opposed to any video aids other than goal-line technology.

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Two names, one player, leave Rwanda sanctioned over identity crisis

Congo vs Rwanda

August 18 – Rwanda have been thrown out of the Africa Cup of Nations over a bizarre case of player eligibility. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) took the decision following a protest by Congo who have been re-instated in the qualifying competition for next year’s finals in Morocco.

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One year on CSKA Sofia shows financial stability and transparency

Tomov CSKA

By Alexander Krassimirov
August 18 – CSKA Sofia’s board has given a breakdown of what has been a turbulent past financial year. The President Alexander Tomov (pictured) and CEO Alexander Todorov took charge of CSKA a year ago, when the club was facing bankruptcy.

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Russian poll finds positive attitude to 2018 but some concern on costs

Russian flag

August 18 – A survey by the Russian Foundation of Public Opinion found that the overwhelming majority of Russians believe that holding the 2018 World Cup in Russia will promote interest in sport and a healthy lifestyle.

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David Owen: 1974 – when British football was whiter than white and QPR briefly looked like the shape of the future

Rummaging through my mother’s garage, I found a mildewed relic: a copy of Shoot! “incorporating Goal”‘s summer special from 1974.

It was not a happy time for English football. The Alf Ramsey era had just fizzled to a close with a goalless draw in Portugal. With the World Cup that England had failed to qualify for about to take place in West Germany, the first article was an assessment of Ramsey’s long reign.

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English fans protest ticket prices as Premier League ready for kick off

ticket price protest

By Andrew Warshaw
August 15 – The new English Premier League season gets under way this weekend amid renewed concerns over the cost of ticket prices. Yesterday the Football Supporters’ Federation organised a march towards the London headquarters of the Premier League wielding banners declaring “Football without fans is nothing” and “Demand cuts in ticket prices”.