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David Owen: “There’s only one Karen Murphy”. Why it isn’t just English armchair football fans who should be chanting the pub landlady’s name this weekend

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The first thing to be said about this week’s European Court of Justice ruling – that promises, for a time, to open a path to cheaper live Premier League football for armchair fans in the UK – is that if this doesn’t make the European Union (EU) more popular in famously eurosceptic Britain, nothing will.

But the potential consequences for the future structure of the European game are just as fascinating.

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Dick Pound slams FIFA’s will to reform

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By David Gold

October 4 – International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Dick Pound has hit out at FIFA, saying that they lack the will to make the reforms necessary to restore faith in football.

Africa

Adamu makes final appeal to CAS against FIFA ban

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By Andrew Warshaw

October 4 – Nigeria’s Amos Adamu, kicked out of FIFA for allegedly selling his World Cup vote, takes his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) today in a final attempt to overturn his three-year ban.

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Premiership lose landmark broadcasting rights case over British landlady

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By Andrew Warshaw

October 4 – After a five-year campaign to defy Big Brother, a suburban English landlady today won her battle to screen authorised live Premiership football in a landmark case described as the Bosman of broadcasting.

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Brazil and FIFA come to agreement on 2014 World Cup

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By David Gold

October 4 – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has reassured FIFA that the country would stick to the commitments it made when it won the right to host the 2014 World Cup.

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Sion drop CAS appeal against Swiss League

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By David Gold

October 3 – FC Sion has dropped an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that they had lodged against the Swiss Football League after the six players who they bought whilst under a FIFA transfer ban were made eligible to play in league matches.

African Nations Cup

Zimbabwe urges CAF to take action over match fixing allegations

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By David Gold

October 3 – The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) is to protest to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) after reports emerged alleging that Liberia was close to agreeing to lose the crucial African Nations Cup qualifier with Mali this weekend.

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Plans submitted for new multi-million pound Welsh National Football Centre

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By David Gold

October 3 – Plans have been handed to Newport Council for a new multi-million pound National Football Centre in Wales after the Newport International Sports Village was named as the chosen site of the proposed new venue.

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Rousseff and Blatter meet to defuse revenues row

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By David Gold

October 3 – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will meet with FIFA President Sepp Blatter today in Brussels as she looks to discuss a disagreement over a bill in the country’s Congress that could limit the revenues of world football’s governing body.

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Bin Hammam loses battle to retain control of Asia

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By Andrew Warshaw

October 3 – Mohamed Bin Hammam’s latest attempt to regain both his pride and his standing in world football has failed after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected his bid to be reinstated as head of Asian football.

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Iraq to play Olympic and World Cup qualifiers in Qatar

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By David Gold

October 2 – The Qatar Football Association has confirmed that it will be hosting Iraq’s home qualifying games for the London 2012 Olympic Games and 2014 World Cup.

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Teixeira released from hospital after stomach problems

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By Andrew Warshaw

October 2 – Ricardo Teixeira, controversial president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), has been released from hospital following two days of observation after complaining of abdominal pain.

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Ronaldinho has his eyes set on Olympic gold in 2012

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By David Gold

October 1 – Former double world player of the year Ronaldinho is desperate for a gold medal at next year’s London Olympics as Brazil look to claim their first ever men’s football title.

Andrew Warshaw: Please sort out this Olympic Stadium saga before everyone gets fed up

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Please just sort it out. Sit round the table, thrash out a deal and stop the squabbling before everyone gets thoroughly fed up with the whole interminable saga.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of Tottenham Hotspur’s refusal to pull out of the race to take over the Olympic Stadium after next summer’s Games, the entrenched positions of all parties has got to an embarrassing and, quite frankly, irritating stage.

How must the International Olympic Committee (IOC) be feeling when,

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Myanmar banned from Russia 2018 after crowd violence

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By David Gold

September 30 – Seven years before games get underway at the first ever World Cup to be held in Russia, Myanmar have become the first country eliminated from the competition after violence erupted during a Brazil 2014 Asian qualifying clash with Oman in July.