By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw In the House of Lords of the British Parliament, on 16 January 2020, racism in English football was the subject of a short debate, from which some interesting facts and figures have emerged. Baroness Barran, … Continue reading →

Issue number 280 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post ranks teams from 35 European domestic leagues according to their number of fouls per game as per InStat data. Champions League titleholders Liverpool FC committed the least fouls per match so far this season … Continue reading →

By Dr Laura Donnellan, School of Law, University of Limerick, Ireland The Gambling Commission has announced a ban on betting operators accepting UK customers’ credit cards for the purposes of gambling. The ban, which will take effect from 14 April … Continue reading →

Eye on the prize Today, 14 January 2020, the Sports Business Group at Deloitte has released the 23rd edition of the Deloitte Football Money League (‘DFML’), which analyses the highest earning clubs by revenue in the world’s most popular sport. … Continue reading →

For the first time, a CIES Football Observatory report turns its eye exclusively to Latin America. It analyses the squads of four leagues: the Brazilian Serie A, the Argentinean Superliga, the Chilean Primera División and the Mexican Liga MX. It … Continue reading →

By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw A major row has broken out between the UK Government and the English Football Association (FA) about the sale by the FA, through the Sports Marketing Group, IMG, of the broadcast rights to the famous … Continue reading →

The CIES Football Observatory opens a new exciting decade of football analytics with the exclusive publication of its traditional list of the big-5 league players with the greatest estimated transfer values. At the top three positions of the table are … Continue reading →

By Athena Constantinou, Managing Director, APC Sports Consulting, Nicosia, Cyprus Association Football (Soccer) is the world’s favourite sport. In the present decade, which is coming to an end, women’s football has grown in popularity, culminating in the FIFA Women’s World … Continue reading →

The Managing Director, Dr Rijkele Betten, and the Consulting Editor, Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw of ‘Global Sports Law and Taxation Reports’ (GSLTR) would like to wish all our readers the Compliments of the Season and all the best for the … Continue reading →

By Prof Dr Ian Blackshaw 31-year old Arsenal midfielder, Mesut Ozil, has offended the Chinese with a ‘tweet’ in which he criticised them about their treatment of Uighur Muslims. Ozil, who is himself a Muslim, described them as “warriors who … Continue reading →