By Dr. iur. Alara Efsun Yazıcıoğlu, LLM, Assistant Professor of Tax Law at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey After establishing that the leadership of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) had engaged in various acts of mismanagement, the FIFA … Continue reading
By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw Lewis Hamilton has won the Portuguese Grand Prix on 25 October 2020, and, in doing so, making this his 92nd win. In a fortnight, following the German Grand Prix, he has equalled and overtaken Michael … Continue reading
By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw Pele – Edson Arantes do Nascimento – the famous Brazilian retired footballer has turned 80. The veteran of three World Cups wins in 1958 1962 and 1970, he has dominated the world of football for … Continue reading
By Jonathan Copping, Lawyer, Stone King LLP, London, UK When news broke that a plan, initially devised by Liverpool and subsequently supported by Manchester United, involved radically changing the landscape of English football, the news was met with a mixture … Continue reading
CIES FOOTBALL OBSERVATORY REPORT 19 OCTOBER 2020 Issue number 309 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents players having committed and suffered the most fouls per minute in 33 European championships according to the data provided by our partners … Continue reading
CIES FOOTBALL OBSERVATORY REPORT 12 OCTOBER 2020 Issue number 308 of the Weekly Post presents the annual CIES Football Observatory analysis on the transfer fee expenditure to assemble the squad by big-5 league teams. As for 2019, Manchester City tops … Continue reading
By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw Lewis Hamilton’s win in the Eifel Formula One Grand Prix in Germany on 11 October 2020 was a landmark one. It was his 91st win in the sport and equalled the hitherto unbroken record of … Continue reading
By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw The English Premier League Clubs have voted 19-1 (Leicester City FC dissenting) in favour of the following interim arrangements for the live broadcasts of their matches, after the allowance of the partial return of fans … Continue reading
CIES FOOTBALL OBSERVATORY REPORT 7 OCTOBER 2020 While the COVID pandemic has brought a considerable drop in the level of investments on the transfer market, footballers signed for money by big-5 league teams during the last transfer window were paid … Continue reading
By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw A Petition to the UK Government to allow fans back to football matches under certain conditions has now been signed, at the time of writing, by more 141,000 people (and counting). Any Petition with more … Continue reading