@Walter Hinteler,
England only win major football trophies when we have a Labour Government.
I may or may not have posted this before.
Source: Maggie, Larson, The New Yorker
Bit muted today, although I am getting fed up with interviews with disappointed fans.
Practically everything goes wrong at the Copa final between Argentina and Colombia. It is a miracle that no people die in the tumult outside the stadium. As the host of the 2026 World Cup, the USA has to put up with a lot of criticism.
The fact that the USA was so poorly prepared for the biggest sporting event in terms of sport and organisation two years before the World Cup should also be of interest to football's world governing body, FIFA.
Between a rock and a hard place: Copa America ends in chaos as fans storm Miami stadium
@Walter Hinteler,
Everybody wants Jurgen Klopp.
The transfer rules of world soccer’s governing body FIFA go against European Union laws, the EU’s top court said in a ruling on a high-profile case linked to former France player Lassana Diarra on Friday, citing the bloc’s free movement principles.
“The rules in question are such as to impede the free movement of professional footballers wishing to develop their activity by going to work for a new club,” said the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
FIFA’s Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players (RSTP) say a player who terminates a contract before its term “without just cause” is liable to pay compensation to the club, and where the player joins a new club they will be joint and severally liable for payment of compensation.
(reuters via The Guardian)
