UEFA is expected to confirm ticket allocations for the Champions League final in Istanbul today, despite pressure from politicians and health experts to move the all-English final to the UK on safety grounds. The European football governing body has stood firm this week, despite extremely high rates of coronavirus infections in Turkey, which is currently … Read more
Instagram to launch tool THIS WEEK that prevents players from seeing abusive messages – after removing sickening racist abuse aimed at Raheem Sterling just 48 hours on from English football’s social media boycott Instagram will launch a tool to prevent players from seeing abusive messages The new system will come into place this week after … Read more
Manchester City and their opponents in the Champions League final will receive up to 4,000 tickets each for the match to be played in Turkey. UEFA and Turkish authorities are believed to be drawing up plans to accommodate 25,000 spectators at the Ataturk Stadium for the match on May 29. If approved, the stadium in Istanbul … Read more
Manchester City and Chelsea fans face anxious wait to see if they can travel to Istanbul for the Champions League final – if their sides make it – after Turkey enters a three-week lockdown UEFA confirmed that the Saturday May 29 final will take place in Istanbul, Turkey Europe’s governing body are working towards having … Read more
Noise at a football match? This could catch on, you know. Finally, an atmosphere. Finally, a roar. Finally, supporters are back at football. The language, granted, left a fair bit to be desired but we wouldn’t have it any other way. 8000 supporters were allowed into Wembley for Sunday’s Carabao Cup final showdown Eight-thousand spectators … Read more
‘Snakes? The insults were far worse than that!’ West Ham’s Karren Brady lifts lid on fiery meeting of Premier League’s furious 14 to fight European Super League plans as she says ‘trust has been vanquished’ with Big Six Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ attempted to join breakaway European Super League It led to the division’s other … Read more
Florentino Perez has warned that no club can leave the European Super League after signing binding contracts to participate and denied JP Morgan have pulled their backing to fund the competition. Speaking out yet again after a flurry of clubs withdrew, Perez – who heads the controversial competition – slammed teams for ‘manipulating our project’ … Read more
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has refused to back down in his defence of the disastrous European Super League and insists that anyone who thinks the project is dead is ‘completely wrong’. Perez, who is also the president of the Super League, has come out swinging just 24 hours after the controversial project collapsed, which … Read more
So we start with a blank sheet of paper, and on it we write: ‘[INSERT NAME] is a football club playing in the English football pyramid, and, as such, can only participate in competitions sanctioned by the English Football Association, UEFA and FIFA. ‘Any agreement or attempt to participate in a competition not recognised by … Read more
The Premier League’s Big Six have lost tens of millions between them in their attempts to set up a European Super League which ended in a humiliating defeat on Tuesday. Sportsmail has learned the 12 founding clubs, who announced the venture on Sunday, bought equity stakes of £8million each in the Super League. The stakes … Read more