By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw The 2020 UK Summer Transfer Window for Women’s Football has produced some startling results. Of the 73 new signings for the Women’s Super League (WSL) Clubs, only 23 have been English players. This means that … Continue reading →

By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw Gareth Bale, the 31-year old Welsh national team captain and winger, has signed a one-year transfer loan from Real Madrid to his former club, Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs), which he left in 2013, after having been … Continue reading →

By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw An upsurge in Coronavirus cases is continuing to wreak havoc on sport and physical activity in the UK and has led to a coalition of more than 100 sports bodies sending a letter to the … Continue reading →

    Home teams traditionally win more matches than away ones. This is often explained by the support of local fans. Issue number 304 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post analyses the difference in the percentage of home wins … Continue reading →

By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw A popular Iranian National Wrestling Champion, Navid Afkari, who was 27, has been hanged after being sentenced to death for the murder of a security guard during anti-Government demonstrations in 2018 against economic hardship and … Continue reading →

By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw The Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the Governing Body of World Motor Sport, is actively looking into the wearing by Lewis Hamilton at the Tuscan Grand Prix on 13 September 2020 of a t-shirt with … Continue reading →

By Dr Thilo Pachmann, Partner, Pachmann Attorneys, Zurich, Switzerland A little light relief for our readers in these worrying and stressful COVID-19 times! The deeds date back to 2017 and 2018 and relate to five robberies in Berne, Switzerland, and … Continue reading →

By Emre Bilginoglu, Attorney-at-Law, Istanbul, Turkey London-based Guild Esports, which has former football player David Beckham on board as an investor, has declared its intention to list its shares on the London Stock Exchange.   Team Guild aims to compete … Continue reading →

By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw According to a new Report from UK Sport, only 49% of British Olympic and Paralympic Athletes consider that claims of inappropriate behaviour, which includes bullying and other kinds of mistreatment, are actually acted upon by … Continue reading →

Global study of penalty cards in professional football The brand new CIES Football Observatory Monthly Report compares 87 top divisions worldwide from the point of view of the number of yellow and red cards given by referees between 2015 and … Continue reading →