April 20 – UEFA have postponed until Friday a final decision over whether they are dropping any host cities for this year’s delayed Euro 2020, with Munich, Bilbao and Dublin still in danger of being axed if they can’t guarantee a limited number of spectators.
April 20 – English Premier League clubs are planning a social media blackout next month in response to continued online abuse of players.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 19 – An incensed UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin (pictured) launched a withering attack on the “disgraceful, self-serving” organisers of the new European Super League today, ruling out any possible negotiation, promising that players who take part will be banned and reserving his strongest rebuke for Juventus boss Andrea Agnelli who he accused of repeatedly lying over his true intentions.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 19 – After months of secret behind the scenes negotiations by the Continent’s elite clubs, European football has been plunged into unprecedented crisis and division with the announcement of a much-dreaded but long-touted breakaway Super League, prompting a fierce backlash from UEFA, individual leagues and even the British government.
By Paul Nicholson
April 19 – The breakaway Super League broke official cover last night – just after midnight central European time – with a statement confirming the 12 ‘Founding Clubs’ and a €3.5 billion share-out for joining the new set-up.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 19 – One notable figure was conspicuous by his absence at today’s all-important UEFA executive committee. The man who, it is alleged, stabbed European football’s governing body in the back after what is being described as the night that changed the sport for ever.
April 19 – Jose Mourinho, who joined Tottenham Hotspur 17 months ago with a point to prove having been sacked from his previous two jobs, went the same way today after failing to live up to expectations and persisting with a playing style that was anathema to the fans.
April 19 – With the 2022 World Cup approaching rapidly and the Covid-19 pandemic still raging around the world, hosts Qatar are seeking coronavirus jabs for all visitors to next year’s global finals.
April 19 – Major League Soccer (MLS) have found that David Beckham’s Inter Miami broke league budget rules with the signing of the France midfielder Blaise Matuidi. The franchise will be slapped with sanctions, to be announced “in the near future.”
April 19 – Conmebol have extended their partnership with FC Diez Media until 2026 for the exploitation of the governing body’s commercial rights.
April 19 – Concacaf’s 2021 Champions League has rapidly progressed to the quarter final stage with the confederation releasing April and May dates for the four home-and-away matchups.
April 16 – With Concacaf rapidly moving from famine to feast in terms of international football competition, the confederation has announced the Empower Field at Mile High in Denver as the host of the inaugural Concacaf Nations League Finals.
By Paul Nicholson
April 16 – The embattled Trinidad and Tobago FA, currently ruled by a FIFA Normalisation Committee, could face the embarrassment of losing points from its recent World Cup qualifiers for playing an ineligible player.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 16 – The 10-game ban meted out by UEFA to Slavia Prague’s international defender Ondrej Kudela for racist abuse has prompted a remarkable intervention by the Czech government as one of the most high-profile recent cases of discrimination on the pitch continues to rumble on.
