Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov increases personal stake in the club to signal long-term commitment February 26, 2016 Arsenal minority shareholder Alisher Usmanov has increased his personal stake in the Premier League club after buying out his business partner Farhad Moshiri. Billionaire Usmanov, worth $12.7bn (£9.2bn) according to Forbes, now owns 100 per cent of Red & White Holdings which represents 30.04 per cent of shares in Arsenal, after purchasing Moshiri's share. Read [...]
Arsenal financial accounts reveal that despite only signing Petr Cech, Gunners spent £39.4m on transfer costs in summer window February 26, 2016 Arsenal made a loss of £3.4m after tax in the first half of the fiscal year due to higher than reported transfer costs. Although the club only signed veteran goalkeeper Petr Cech for just over £10m in the summer, clauses triggered in previous deals took Arsenal's total transfer outlay to £39.4m. Read more: Alisher Usmanov increases personal [...]
Fifa election 2016: Everything you need to know about the reforms Fifa just voted for February 26, 2016 Delegates from Fifa's 209 member associations have voted to enact a package of reforms the governing body hopes can help it regain the trust of football fans around the world. At the Extraordinary Fifa Congress the suited and booted gathering of football administrators were first asked to give the green light to a raft of [...]
Grimsby review, plus the rest of this week’s biggest cinema releases February 26, 2016 Grimsby (15) Dir. Louis Leterrier ★☆☆☆☆ Ten years after shocking the world with Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen returns as Nobby, a slow-witted Grimsbarian who discovers he’s the long lost brother of a secret agent (Mark Strong), and as such must help save the world from a sinister plot. Occasional sparks of humour and some impressive [...]
Louis Saha: Fifa election ignores what football’s governing body really needs – reform led by a truly independent body February 26, 2016 Fifa is hoping that years of corruption scandals and turbulence will finally be brought to an end by the election of a new president. But I’m not the only one of the opinion that Fifa’s problems run deeper than Sepp Blatter – 69% of fans polled in Transparency International’s recent research said they’ve lost all [...]
Fifa election 2016: What time is the presidential election? Who are the candidates? Where is it being held? And how does the vote work? February 26, 2016 It's all change at Fifa today as the scandal-hit organisation convenes in Zurich to elect Sepp Blatter's successor as president and vote on a raft of reforms to its structure and values. Five candidates are in the reckoning to up the mantle of leading football's governing body out of a period of continual corruption allegations, [...]
Fifa is spending $10m a month on legal bills and is $550m behind revenue targets, governing body reveals at presidential election February 26, 2016 Fifa's legal woes are heavily weighing on its finances, with the governing body revealing it is over half a billion dollars behind its revenue targets at its emergency congress. The scandal-hit organisation is spending roughly $10m every single month on legal bills, acting general secretary Markus Kattner revealed as football's power brokers gathered in Zurich [...]
The FA admits fixture scheduling needs major rethink after Uefa gives go-ahead to Arsenal v Hull replay February 26, 2016 The Football Association (FA) has admitted it needs to re-think the English football fixture list, following criticism from Premier League managers over the number of games their teams are required to play. Uefa had to grant special dispensation to allow Arsenal to play an FA Cup replay against Hull on Tuesday 8 March, on the same night [...]
Cleansed at the National Theatre and A Girl Is a Half Formed Thing at the Young Vic reviewed February 25, 2016 Cleansed Dorfman (National Theatre) | ★★★☆☆ I was going to start this review by saying Sarah Kane’s Cleansed has lost a little of its shock value in the 18 years since it premiered. In this time the phrase “torture porn” has entered the popular vernacular and even your mum has probably seen The Human Centipede. [...]
Wentworth Golf Club says the show must go on, as residents seek legal advise for disrupting this year’s PGA golf tournament February 25, 2016 As City boys and Surrey golfers step up their campaign against Wentworth Golf Club’s new £100,000 joining fee, it seems that the troops on either side of the row are preparing for a battle. The Wentworth Estate Roads Committee, the governing body that looks after the interest of Wentworth’s residents, has hired lawyers at Quinn Emmanuel [...]