Boost for Boehly at last: Is Chelsea chairman’s luck turning? October 31, 2024 Things are looking up for Todd Boehly: while Chelsea are enjoying their best run of form since he became chairman, another of his sports teams, the LA Dodgers, have just won baseball’s World Series. The Dodgers secured their eighth title on Wednesday night when they clinched a 4-1 series win over the New York Yankees [...]
Ed Warner: Have sports missed esports boat – or was there never one to catch? October 31, 2024 Ahead of the League of Legends Worlds 2024 in London this weekend, Ed Warner wonders whether sports have got esports all wrong.
Fifa ‘unfit’ to run football and even worse than Blatter era, says report October 30, 2024 Fifa has been accused of remaining unfit to govern world football and in some respects being worse than before the existential crisis that forced it to introduce a raft of governance reforms eight years ago. A report by human rights and sport advocacy group FairSquare concludes that Fifa’s inherent structural flaws make it resistant to [...]
Women’s football scores £100m boost from new Sky and BBC TV deals October 30, 2024 Sky Sports has secured an even bigger share of matches in the Women’s Super League as part of a record new long-term agreement billed as “the most significant broadcast partnership ever for women’s football”. The deal from 2025 until 2030 will see Sky show up to 118 WSL matches, more than three times as many [...]
Fifa lands first sponsor for controversial Club World Cup October 30, 2024 Fifa’s Club World Cup has received a much-needed shot in the arm after electronic appliance brand Hisense signed up as its first sponsor. The deal comes less than eight months before the revamped and expanded 32-team competition is due to take place for the first time in the US next summer. Preparations have been blighted [...]
Ahead of the Game: A$AP Rocky’s Tranmere takeover hits a snag October 30, 2024 City AM has learned that one of Tacopina's key investors, who was providing around 30 per cent of the funding, pulled out last week.
Manchester United ready to pay £8m for new manager, say his club October 29, 2024 Manchester United have moved a step closer to appointing Ruben Amorim as their new manager after Sporting Lisbon confirmed the Premier League club had made an approach for the 39-year-old. The Portuguese champions issued a statement to the stock market on Tuesday announcing that United had made contact with a view to paying Amorim’s £8.3m [...]
Football regulator boss should come from the Square Mile, says Crouch October 29, 2024 Former sports minister Tracey Crouch says the incoming football regulator should be run by someone with a background in the City. Crouch has done more than anyone to give rise to the regulator by making it a key recommendation in her fan-led review of football governance. A revised bill laying out the watchdog’s proposed powers [...]
Past Ballon d’Or winners as Rodri wins 2024 award October 28, 2024 Manchester City’s Rodri has beaten Vinicius Jr to the 2024 Ballon d’Or at a prestigious event in Paris. The Spaniard became the first Premier League winner of the Ballon d’Or since Cristiano Ronaldo in 2008, when the Portuguese was at Manchester United. “A very special day, for me, my family and my country,” he said. [...]
Harry Kane wins gong at Ballon d’Or awards October 28, 2024 England striker Harry Kane has won an award at the prestigious Ballon d’Or evening in Paris. The Bayern Munich man was handed the Gerd Müller trophy in a joint win with Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe. Previous winners include Erling Haaland (once) and Robert Lewandowski (twice). Mbappe was supposed to be at the ceremony alongside favourite [...]