Platini’s grand plan will end in tears May 18, 2014 FOR CLUBS aspiring to compete in the Champions League, Uefa’s financial fair play (FFP) rules have reached their first monitoring hurdle and the offenders are now facing the imposition of sanctions. The rules embodied in a 90-page document are mired in complexity and open to accounting and legal interpretation. Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain have [...]
Why England’s clubs must stick to rules May 18, 2014 FINANCIAL fair play (FFP) rules are now a huge part of everyday life in the business of running a football club. Each Uefa league, and in our case in England each division, has its own set of FFP rules. In our view, none we’ve seen are perfect and they all present their own particular set [...]
Stay up to date on FFP May 18, 2014 Back in March we reported the impending punishment of squad sizes being cut for European competitions In May last year we brought you news of lawyer Jean-Louis Dupon taking on a legal challenge to FFP on behalf of a football agent City A.M. has been running detailed analysis of FFP as it is implemented both [...]
Godzilla thunders back onto screens May 15, 2014 FILM GODZILLA Cert 12a | By Alex Dymoke Three Stars SKYSCRAPERS haven’t come in for this much abuse since Prince Charles started sounding off about contemporary architecture. Brit director Gareth Edwards’ take on the classic Japanese B-movie doesn’t so much reimagine the original as inject it with growth hormones. It’s a monster of a monster [...]
Cannes 2014: old boys dominate the selection again May 15, 2014 From Cronenberg to Godard, familiar names leave room for only five Palme newcomers TWO DAYS ago, the Cannes Film Festival opened with a right royal stinker. Nicole Kidman’s Grace Kelly biopic Grace of Monaco was met with a galaxy of one star reviews, the consensus being that it surpassed even last year’s Naomi Watts’ Diana [...]
Muddy Waters’ son keeps the blues alive in the City May 15, 2014 Mud Morganfield is back in town for the launch of Blues Kitchen Shoreditch – Alex Dymoke caught up with him FINALLY the square mile finally has a place to exorcise those blues. Last night Mud Morganfield was on hand to mark the opening of the Blues Kitchen Shoreditch, a new restaurant and music venue metres from [...]
£35m: United count cost of failing to bag European spot May 15, 2014 MANCHESTER United expect their miserable season to cost them around £35m but say they still intend to spend as they look to re-establish themselves as England’s top club. Chief executive Ed Woodward confirmed yesterday that the team’s failure to qualify for European competition would dent next year’s earnings by a figure “in the mid-30 millions [...]
Cipriani told to capitalise on second chance May 15, 2014 ENGLAND head coach Stuart Lancaster has challenged Danny Cipriani to repay his show of faith after recalling the fly-half to the international fold for the first time in six years yesterday. Cipriani, 26, won the last of seven England caps in November 2008 but was named by Lancaster in a 20-man training squad ahead of [...]
More ticket woe as Rugby World Cup early seat sale postponed May 15, 2014 TODAY’S planned sale of Rugby World Cup tickets has been postponed after Ticketmaster said it needed extra time to prepare its website, just days after their Commonwealth Games sale process was plunged into chaos. The first 500,000 seats for next autumn’s showpiece were due to be available to members of the Rugby Community Ticketing Programme [...]
Sport Comment: Last season’s pain makes us want silverware more May 15, 2014 SARACENS have already reached one final and tomorrow we hope to book our place in another, but none of it will count for much unless we finish the season with a trophy or two this time. If ever we needed a reminder not to get carried away then we only have to remember last season, [...]