By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw Sir Bobby Charlton, the well-known English footballer of 1966 World Cup fame, has been diagnosed with dementia. This news has, once again, raised the question of whether there is a link between playing football and … Continue reading
By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw On 31 October 2020, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced a second lockdown, commencing on 5 November 2020 and ending on 2 December 2020, in an attempt to combat the rising number of Covid-19 … Continue reading
Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich) heads the exclusive CIES Football Observatory list of the highest estimated transfer values for big-5 league players born in the 2000s: €180 M. The Champions League winner outranks Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund, €125 M) and Ansu … Continue reading
By Jonathan Copping, Lawyer, Stone King LLP, London, UK Following the publication and subsequent dismissal of ‘Project Big Picture’ last month (see Post by Jonathan Copping of 24 October 2020), news broke of a possible European Super League. It is … Continue reading
By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw Christian Coleman, the 100 metres world champion, has been banned for two years for missing three drugs tests. This means that he will not be eligible to participate in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, which … Continue reading
CIES Football Observatory Report 26 October 2020 Youngest teams: Nordsjælland and Milan at the top Issue number 310 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post ranks teams from 67 top divisions worldwide according to the average age of line-ups fielded … Continue reading
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