Futbolekonomi- 23 May 2019  The leaders of Europe’s top football leagues have attacked plans to restructure the Champions League, pitting them against Uefa, which runs the lucrative competition, and raising the stakes in a long-running battle for power.

The Guardian - 3 June 2016 MPs and Fifa reform campaigners have called for an urgent investigation into questions raised by a decade old TV rights deal that has dragged the new president of world football’s governing body into the Panama Papers affair.

The Economist-Feb 27th 2016- Big spending on foreign football players has a political aim, too...CHINESE demand for the world’s commodities may be sputtering, but not for the most vital ingredient of football: its players.

The Economist 18 January 2016 -If on the opening day of the 2015-16 English Premier League (EPL) season, you had marched into your local bookmaker and bet on lowly Leicester City to sit at the top of the division on Christmas Day, you would have elicited a chuckle from other wizened punters in the shop.

18 December 2015- The Guardian José Mourinho has been sacked by Chelsea, with the club’s former caretaker manager Guus Hiddink lined up to take over for the rest of the season. The Portuguese has paid the price for the team’s dismal Premier League form and he has become the latest casualty of the Roman Abramovich era.

3 April 2015- UEFA and the European Club Association have reached a provisional agreement regarding the signing of a renewed Memorandum of Understanding between the two bodies.

3 April 2015- UEFA and FIFPro Division Europe have today formally launched a complaint with the European Commission, questioning the legality of third-party player ownership.

Ed Thompson- 6 March 2014 A study of Premier League club accounts shows that most paying fans effectively have their match-day-experience subsidised by club losses.

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• David Conn- theguardian.com, Monday 17 February 2014 The government should "take urgent action" to force professional football clubs and the Football Association to involve supporters substantially more in their decision-making, a committee of MPs, chaired by Jonathan Evans, Conservative MP for Cardiff North, has recommended.

By Rob HUGHES- January 21, 2014 — The cycle of sports can be brutally unforgiving. Lionel Messi takes a couple of months off to mend a thigh injury, and he drops to being only the second-best player in his game.