#football-governance

#football-governance

In the face of thousands of killings, leading figures in Iranian sport have been vocal about the need for help and action. Former Iran and Bayern Munich star Ali Karimi signed an open letter to FIFA's President Gianni Infantino, calling on him to "publicly condemn the mass killing of civilians in Iran, including members of the football community." Karimi, along with 20 other signatories that include other former internationals, a coach, a referee and sports journalists, also asks FIFA to act in the face of human rights being violated.

The 50-year-old has taken quite a jump from Canada, a huge country where soccer is not the biggest sport, to Indonesia, a huge country where it definitely is. If he can repeat his 2022 heroics for 2030, he will be a hero to a nation of 280 million people who are just desperate to return to the global stage.

Ex-Sutton Coldfield Town Women's boss Ryan Hamilton used social media platforms Snapchat and WhatsApp to send pictures of his genitals as well as videos of himself masturbating, while telling the women directly that he wanted to have sex in places such as the changing room. It was also said he adopted a "verbally aggressive and bullying management style", which saw him "belittling and humiliating" people to the point they no longer wished to play for the fourth-tier side.

Everyone would talk about what they'd do with this player or that, none of them had kicked a football in their life or got any experience in football. You allow it as footballers, because everyone has got an opinion. But then when the finances come out and I try to say something, they go, 'What are you f**king talking about? You haven't got a clue, mate.'

Sustained online abuse, threatening and derogatory behaviour directed towards both myself and my family, and libellous comments made in writing and online, have now crossed an unacceptable line. What began as criticism relating to football matters has escalated into behaviour that is impacting my personal life, family, household, and business interests. This situation is no longer tolerable, and I cannot allow my continued association with the club to negatively and distressfully affect myself and those closest to me.

When looking at the game between Milan and Como, attached to it are almost a year of questions and maybes. Of course, some maybes are strengthened by various agreements, with the FIGC and UEFA, for example. However, they are followed by a lack of answers from FIFA and protests from the players. So, just a few months away from the scheduled fixture, we are left without answers or solutions.

"Well, look, nobody knows because even the parties themselves expected to have been told by now, Borson said. All the lawyers are surprised there is no decision at this stage, and that's on both sides. I'll tell you who's holding it up - the panel making the decision. They hold the pen. They are the people who everybody waits for to deliver the decision."

The culture secretary has apologised for breaking rules by failing to declare she had received donations from the man she picked to run England's new football regulator. On Thursday, the commissioner for public appointments published a report which found that David Kogan had made two separate donations of 1,450 to Lisa Nandy, when she was running to be Labour leader in 2020.

English football authorities have agreed they will no longer hold minute's silences or other forms of commemoration for events that do not directly relate to the game. The decision was made jointly by the EFL, FA and Premier League following the creation of a new committee, the World Events Working Group (WEWG), to assess the sport's response to global events such as natural disasters and terror incidents. The news comes after a number of occasions in which authorities were questioned over their commemoration policies and deciding which events should merit tributes before matches.

FIFPRO has accused FIFA of systematically ignoring and silencing player concerns, undermining the game through an autocratic governance system and producing an overloaded match calendar.

We promised in our manifesto that we would end years of inaction and make the changes that fans have fought for for so long and are so overdue.

It breaks my heart to see the club I have followed all my life being held hostage by an owner who clearly has no interest or care for us.

The club is obviously very disappointed at the outcome of the appeal to the SFA tribunal, where the decision of the SPFL tribunal was upheld with the result that the 15-point deduction stands.